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Adobe Contribute: User & Admin=same Person?!

Posted by Anonymous on 3/18/2008 at 10:43 AM ET 125 Points
Consider this situation. 3 people involved with a website:

1. Me, who created it and recommended Adobe Contribute as a way to avoid it looking a ransom note after monthly updates
2. Program manager, older guy who doesn't have time, knowledge, or interest to admin anything.
3. Assistant, inexperienced with HTML but will be in charge of updating the site.

Problem is, I don't think they're going to have the budget to keep me in any role. So does it make sense to use Contribute anyway, knowing the assistant will probably be the admin too, but hoping there's some measure of safety in making her intentionally login as admin before she can really mess things up?

Adding Contrib funcitonality was part of the project estimate, and I'll do it if needed, but I need to warn the manager if it's really not going to help much in protecting the site design.
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  • Posted on 3/18/2008 at 11:36 AM Author
    Thanks for the suggestion, but not an option. Even if it's a good idea technically, it's a bad one for customer relations.

    They've spent scarce money on the Contribute software, a Peachpit book, and my agreement to provide the service.
  • Posted on 3/18/2008 at 11:53 AM Author
    No problem. If it's helpful to anyone, here's the info on it:

    https://www.adobe.com/products/contribute/

    It's a sort of CMS, allowing you to permit content updates with minimal design changes. Keeps clients from ruining the look of the sites they paid for.
  • Posted by Jay Hamilton-Roth on 3/19/2008 at 8:32 AM Accepted
    If they've picked and insisted on the tool, then the best you can do is provide wise counsel, and be ready to fix things (getting paid by the hour) that they break. Perhaps get a 1-hour/month retainer to be available to answer/address assistant's issues.
  • Posted on 3/19/2008 at 9:25 AM Author
    Jay, that might be sellable. Who'd be the admin, then? Me? Or would there be two of us -- one of them and me -- with admin access?
  • Posted on 3/26/2008 at 8:33 AM Author
    Thank you all for the suggestions. I'm going to propose a minimal monthly payment to have me as admin. I'll tell them it's cheap insurance to protect the site they invested in.
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