They re-organized that site a bit.  Personally I liked the BC site before the Adobe-fication of it.  Easier to read and understand.  Now they are calling it a BC Partner Program ( http://www.adobe.com/products/business-catalyst/partners.html ).  Wish there was more to show you, but screenshots seem to be at a minimum now.  They must be running out of space for images on the server.

I totally agree with Tim Liszt!

Most of my clients are NOT computer savvy when it comes to websites, nor do they have the time to invest to learn complicated content management. Contribute is easy for them to understand, especially because they can "see" what their website looks like when they make simple alterations like text changes or updating a photo. That's what is (or what was) so great about Contribute. And now it's being discontinued!!??

Well here is more confusion with Adobe:

I just spoke with the "sales" department because I don't know if I want to upgrade to CS6 if I can't use Contribute for my clients. The sales rep (overseas) also told me that any NEW sites I create with Dreamweaver CS6 will NOT work with clients using Contribute 5 (or 4 or 3). To which I replied... "Oh, well... looks like I won't be making a purchase today." Then she transferred me to "tech support" (also, overseas) to get a further detailed answer. Here's what he had to say...

He said Contribute is NOT being discontinued and that Contribute 6 (as a stand alone program) will come out soon. Say what!???? I didn't believe him. He proceeded to tell me that the "sales" people do not have accurate information as they do, and he even spoke with his technical manager to confirm what he was telling me... which he insisted was true. He also said that my client CAN use Contribute 5 to make website changes if I create it with Dreamweaver CS6..... so basically the total opposite of everything Adobe Sales told me.

So there ya go... is it true, or is it not true?

Anyone dare to find out on their own?

And MUSE does NOT replace Contribute?... is it true, or is it not true?

Guess that depends on who you ask, too.

That's unfortunate. Clients are already delighted with the ease of use that Contribute provides, and that when they edit they can see it as though they are on the actual webpage.

Looks like InContext Editing will also cost clients more than Contribute (at $50 per month!) since it is no longer a stand alone application. Not a good solution for my clients. And is this a sneaky way to get us to use Adobe's hosting services with Creative Cloud? I don't want to switch hosting companies.

By the way... your first link on "Training your clients" took me to a broken page....

Needed to remove the "http://" after ".html"

This is great news. Adobe Contribute is an amazing easy to use and intuitive application, its search engine friendly, secure and practically maintenance free. I recently won my biggest client ever on the basis of Contribute and trust me they are a serious, serious company who have already been down the Wordpress/Joomla/Drupal route (expect the sale soon Adobe).

Clients are to the most part not technical geeks and have little understanding of security. Anyone who hosts websites understands the security risks of open source software and what can happen when its not updated by the client. For example when a new Wordpress patch comes out now I have to manually go though all the sites we have built on that particular platform and check my clients have patched the software, 90% of the time they have not and this is something I can not ignore. I also do this for free as I can't risk a hacked site crashing one of my servers as it screws everybody up on the server.

The other issue that using an open source cms creates is that the client can manage their own plugins/widgets which are not developed to play well together and regularly crash sites (I had an entire video section stop working on a Drupal site recently because another plugin had been updated by a client).

Like doing the CMS updates you can charge for repairing this kind of thing but to be honest its a hassle I don't need and I guess a lot of other people feel the same way.

Business Catalyst is an Adobe hosted solution and does 100% have its place but when you offer hosting and build sites that range from small local businesses to huge companies then you need a solution that slots in anywhere, in my view Contribute does this.

We need a new version of Contribute that will play well with HTML5 and CCS3 (nothing clever we just don't want it screwing the code up) and gives our clients some social media options (like buttons, share icons) and that will do us for a couple of years Adobe, keep up the great work.

And thats my 2 pennies worth.

Cheers

Gary

Will Contribute 6.5 work with updating sites created in Muse?

Ok, I'm been following this thread for awhile and I'm still not sure about DW CS6 and older Contribute sites. I hope someone here knows...

Can I upgrade myself to DW CS6 and maintain my Contribute sites (that were built in DW CS5.5) and still keep my clients on Contribute 5... without breaking anything?

Historically, I've seen DW upgrades break Contribute sites and I really don't want to deal with that kind of problem right now.

P.S. Muse will NEVER replace Contribute (maybe in Adobe's mind a combination of Muse and Business Catalyst will, but not in real facts).

Muse was created for print designers wanting to create a simple site, NOT for people wanting to edit an existing web site... So, the closest is using Business Catalyst (with, maybe, the InContext Editing of Dreamweaver), but I don't like the fact that you must change your hosting provider to use BC...

If they would have kept ICE (InContext Editing) as a seperate product, like it was at first (and even free...), THAT would have replaced Contribute... But now, if you want to use ICE, you need to use it with Business Catalyst...