Yep. having a "Contribute day" here fighting with a marketing bug. Contribute. a product that i've raved about for it's absolute "can't-screw-it-up" simplicity for editing webpages. has now officially screwed me with an utter inability to properly render a site.

We created a layout that was entirely XHTML and CSS. Did the positioning thing instead of tables. It feels "normal" now. so there's nothing too new about it. But. then came testing time and Contribute totally screws the pooch.

Here's what the page looks like on the site:

Here's what it looks like in edit mode in Contribute with all styles available:

We're helping deliver this site (we're the subs on the project) to a bunch of church folks - people who aren't terribly technical to begin with. To present them with a site that doesn't look the same in the allegedly WYSIWYG editor is going to be a fatal delivery error.

So thank you. Contribute. for totally hosing what was a standards-compliant design. Adobe: PLEASE FIX THIS! For all the talk about standards-compliant coding and site development. for your "easy as butter" content editing tool to mess it up is incredibly frustrating! Makes us look absolutely foolish for recommending it in the first place...

Back to tables we go...