Front Page equivalent of Macromedia Contribute

[PTA dad]

I'm looking for a Front Page 2003 equivalent to Macromedia
Contribute. Here's the deal...
I'm redoing a school website and would like to have every
teacher and classroom rep be able to add presentations to
their section of the website and in addition, to be able
to create pages from templates, using editable regions so
as to maintain formatting.
I'd also like them to be able to drag and drop files in
Word or Excel through some client like Contribute and
ultimately have those documents be presented with pre-
approved styles.

At the very least, is there a program from Microsoft that
easily lets such a large group of people contribute to the
site -- and this would be from their homes or an internet
connection (not requiring them to actually have a copy of
Front Page).

Surely, Microsoft has thought of someting. Currently we're
using Dreamweaver and because of school budgets and an
unaffordable price for a site license for Contribute, I'm
looking for a way to standardize on one suite and save
costs, too.

Thanks.

 

[Thomas A. Rowe]

Currently, MS doesn't have anything like that available, but I think it is a
excellent idea.

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[Edwin Hannan]

Hi

This may help you..its called city desk and is a content manager, the price
is right for the lite version (FREE) so you can test it.

http://www.fogcreek.com/CityDesk/

Hope this helps

Ed

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[Thomas A. Rowe]

You have to be carefully when working with a site the is hosted on a FP
enabled web server, since any changes made outside of FP, FP will not
recognize that any changes have been made. In most case all that would need
to be done is open the site directly in FP and recalculate hyperlinks,
however in that case FP should have been used to begin with, to save the
added steps.

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[PTA dat]

Thanks to both of you.
Looks like my other choice would be to create a password-
protected page on the site using the new "Upload file"
form bot in FP 2003 and encourage my contributors to use
word docs, provide them with a template (.DOT file) that
maps to the CSS (stylewise, anyway) on the website and ask
them to save the docs in html.
If you work with lay volunteers at a school, you know this
plan is rife with tech support nightmares, but with a good
manual with plenty of screen shots, it just might work.
Still, it doesn't allow me to make the best use of the
new "editable regions" in FP 2003 without getting a site
license (and then training everyone) for FP.
Education is so richly important and out public schools
are so poor. But I suppose that issue deserves a different
kind of "front page" treatment.

 

[chris leeds]

for what it's worth I'd use a "portal" I've done several and edited them and
published them with FrontPage. once on the server the content can be added,
modified, and deleted on line with nothing but a web browser. there are
tons of them and most are free.
you can try anything from a PHP-Nuke to a very nice "little" portal from
www.aspportal.net you should do a search for them at www.hotscripts.com or
www.fuzzysoftware.com I'm sure there is going to be something just right for
your application.
IMHO
HTH

 

[Stefan B Rusynko]

For what you want to do take a look at Windows Sharepoint Services
See http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2003/techinfo/sharepoint/whatsnew.mspx

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| I'm looking for a Front Page 2003 equivalent to Macromedia
| Contribute. Here's the deal...
| I'm redoing a school website and would like to have every
| teacher and classroom rep be able to add presentations to
| their section of the website and in addition, to be able
| to create pages from templates, using editable regions so
| as to maintain formatting.
| I'd also like them to be able to drag and drop files in
| Word or Excel through some client like Contribute and
| ultimately have those documents be presented with pre-
| approved styles.
|
| At the very least, is there a program from Microsoft that
| easily lets such a large group of people contribute to the
| site -- and this would be from their homes or an internet
| connection (not requiring them to actually have a copy of
| Front Page).
|
| Surely, Microsoft has thought of someting. Currently we're
| using Dreamweaver and because of school budgets and an
| unaffordable price for a site license for Contribute, I'm
| looking for a way to standardize on one suite and save
| costs, too.
|
| Thanks.