Contribute 4

Adam Durst
Flash
Jeff Stevens
http://www.flashnewz.com/flashnewz-5-20061006AdobeIncludesDragandDropFlashSupportinNewContributeRelease.html

Article Critique #1

This article was talking about the new features in a new program called contribute 4. The updates to this program allow web developers to have more control over the author permissions while insuring that the site itself doesn’t lose continuity. This it allows multiple users to have access to the software’s content, which makes revisions much simpler than in previous versions. The overall point of this software is intended to allow webmasters without any knowledge of source code to make revisions to websites without having to make any alterations to the coding. It now also integrates dragging and dropping of flash movies and integration with Microsoft.

The significance of these updates to the software is big. They now offer many things to web developers that were previously unattainable, such as drag drop flash movies and Microsoft integration. The added support for bloggers has also made this program worth using. Another useful tool of this program is that with all the integrations into the program it now helps make layout easy that was not possible in the past. Also according to the article any blogger with contribute 4 and Rocketboom will be able to easily add video to their blogs. The most major revision to this program is that anyone with minimal web experience is now able to use this program.

In my opinion I thought this article was poorly written. The article was trying to promote the features of the new contribute 4, yet it went into very minimal detail as to why these features were significant. They also assumed that you knew what the program was and for an outsider like me who has never used the program it wasn’t very informational. Also the article was very choppy and jumped from topic to topic and then came back to another aspect later. The very ironic part of the whole article is that the author’s title is expert author.

My opinion of the features discussed is that it sounds like this program is rather revolutionary and user friendly. However without further research it is hard to make any solid conclusions about the article statements. I feel that while it seems like a program someone in my future profession could use the article did a very poor job of explaining why it is a must buy.