Adobe Contribute is a web publishing and website management tool that integrates authoring, reviewing, and publishing in a WYSIWYG HTML editor. The purpose is to increase web publishing productivity collaboratively while simplifying oversight and approval tasks.

Contribute consists of two components, a client

Client (computing)

A client is an application or system that accesses a service made available by a server. The server is often on another computer system, in which case the client accesses the service by way of a network....

 for editing, and a "publishing server

Server (computing)

In the context of client-server architecture, a server is a computer program running to serve the requests of other programs, the "clients". Thus, the "server" performs some computational task on behalf of "clients"...

" that Adobe describes as "complementary". Contribute also includes an in-browser editing component that works as a plug-in for recent versions of Microsoft Internet Explorer

Internet Explorer

Windows Internet Explorer is a series of graphical web browsers developed by Microsoft and included as part of the Microsoft Windows line of operating systems, starting in 1995. It was first released as part of the add-on package Plus! for Windows 95 that year...

 and Mozilla Firefox.

Contribute is designed to integrate with Adobe Dreamweaver and other Adobe products. It is included in the Web Premium and the Master Collection editions of Adobe Creative Suite

Adobe Creative Suite

Adobe Creative Suite is a collection of graphic design, video editing, and web development applications made by Adobe Systems. The collection consists of Adobe's applications , that are based on various technologies...

.

Language availability

Adobe Contribute CS4 is available in the following languages: Brazilian Portuguese, Chinese Simplified (Windows only), Chinese Traditional (Windows only), Czech, Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean (Windows only), Polish, Russian, Spanish, Swedish and Turkish.

However for unknown reasons, Adobe Contribute CS5 is only available in English, French, German, Japanese and Spanish.

External links

• Adobe Contribute CS5 (product home page)