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We all have customers that 'want to maintain' their own site and I haven't seen a post here about Macromedia Contribute so thought you might be interested in the product.
Let's start by saying this is a wonderful product. I developed the new website in Dreamweaver using templates then 'converted' the site to Contribute (took about 10 minutes)
Contribute allows me (the site administrator) to set up profiles of each person in the client organization - some can edit pages but not publish and some can edit and publish pages plus approve pages that others have edited to be published.
Contribute gives the client access to their website through a standard web browser (that is password enabled) they can navigate through the site to the page they want to edit - click the edit key and edit anything on the page that is not protected by my template.
Contribute gives the client control over the text (size, color, bold, alignment) and even contains a rather rudimentary photo editor.
The product costs $150 and the one drawback is that the webmaster/administrator not only requires Dreamweaver but also must purchase the Contribute product for their computer - so remember to add the cost of Contribute to the cost estimate that you give to your client.
It appears to me that anyone who is reasonable competent with Microsoft Word will find Contribute easy to use.
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