Effective Site Structures
When architecting a Macromedia Dreamweaver site for use in Contribute, the key visual concept to keep in mind is the folder hierarchy. Without additional administrative setup, Contribute users can edit only files found within their root folderand this applies to files within subfolders of their root folder. If you envision a particular folder and all the folders and files underneath it, you'll have a clear picture of what anyone working with those files will be able to affect.Lesson 11, any roles that require access to more than one department can either be given access to the entire site or targeted to specific folders.

Structuring Large-Scale SitesThe solutions I have described to this point work well for sites with a single Contribute administrator and scale well for larger sites requiring multiple administrators. But if the various divisions of an organization and its corresponding Web site have a large number of content contributors, additional Contribute administrators may be needed for smooth operation. Contribute creates a number of server-side files for each Contribute-defined site, and the Internet paths to these files cannot overlap. For example, let's say a current Contribute site is established with this URL:http://www.bigco.com/ Every file within this root address would be contained within the Contribute-defined site and ultimately accountable to a single administrator. If you wanted to add administrators for human resources and finance, you first would need to remove the general Contribute administrator and then create two more Contribute sites with root addresses similar to these:http://www.bountygeneral.com/hr/http://www.bountygeneral.com/pr/ In other words, the overall site (beginning at www.bountygeneral.com) would not be Contribute enabled, but separate sections (for example, www.bountygeneral.com/hr and www.bountygeneral.com/pr) would be. This structure is expandable to include as many Contribute sites as necessary. |