Adobe Contribute CS3 Review
March 6th, 2008 by John CrenshawI just picked up a copy of Adobe Contribute on the recommendation of a friend of mine and, I have to say, it’s pretty incredible. I’m writing this post on my desktop, visually, in Adobe Contribute, and it’s showing up as I type exactly how it will be displayed when published…well, close enough anyway.
So far I’ve been able to edit posts and write new ones, but I haven’t figured out how to edit Wordpress pages yet…not sure if that’s possible, but I’ll keep you in the loop.
If you’re interested in taking a look at this time-saving piece of software, you can get a free 30-day trial from Adobe here.
I’m a huge fan of Adobe’s software. I’ve used almost all of their aplpications at some point in time, some more than others, and I’ve found everything to be so intuitive. For example, when I was installing Adobe Contribute, I had to add my server information so contribute could access this blog. At one point it asked for my blog’s access point. Now, I’ve been blogging for a while and designing blogs for just as long and I’ve never once heard the term “Access Point” in reference to a Wordpress blog. So I thought to myself, “What’s an access point?” No sooner had I thought that than I looked up and there in a little help bubble was the explanation of exactly what an access point was and how to find it.
That’s just a small example, but little things like that, when taken over the life of the software, save you so much time, headache, and money because you canfocus on the important tasks instead of searching endlessly online to figure out what a Wordpress “access point” is. That’s also why I’m zealously against Microsoft products. Even though I use Windows and Excel extensively, I avoid the rest like the plague because they are so unintuitive andbuggy I end up spending just as much debuggin and troubleshooting as I do creating whatever it is I’m creating.
I’ll write more about Contribute later, but I’ve been using it for about 20 minutes now and I’m so impressed I can’t believe it took me this long to start using it.
