Post-launch Publishing & Maintenance
Once a site has been launched, the site owner's group is responsible for developing and maintaining the content. This responsibility does not require technical expertise but rather hands-on knowledge of your group's activities. We offer extensive support and online resources to ensure your site is maintained according to your group's needs.
Ideally, as your site is being produced, you should be taking the followign actions so that you are prepated to maintain you site upon launch:
1. Decide on the Maintenance Model
Single-editor model - recommended for small departments & programs
Depending on his or her level of technical expertise, your Web Author can chose between either of two of Adobe's Web development tools: Contribute for text and other basic site edits, or Dreamweaver for more advanced site maintenance.
Distributed maintenance model - recommended for large departments
A distributed maintenance model takes advantage of the interoperability of Adobe's software products. Multiple maintainers can be set up with Contribute to submit content changes from their local areas of responsibility to a central site administrator. The administrator can in turn use Dreamweaver to review and approve all proposed changes, as well as handle the site’s more advanced maintenance requirements.
2. Decide on the Software
Contribute
Contribute is a simplified Web editing tool that makes it very easy to take care of an existing site. It is ideal for light maintenance by non technical people including occasional changes to existing pages and new pages duplicated from them. It allows for routing of changes for approval before publishing and rollback to earlier versions. Easy to learn and use, Contribute is an excellent tool for groups who wish to minimize training in web development. 
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Dreamweaver
Dreamweaver is a power tool for site development and publishing and now an industry standard. If you need to do extensive development work on a site's structure, such as new topics and sub-sites, Dreamweaver is the way to go. With Dreamweaver, you can edit pages easily and visually, or hack the code. More
3. Take a 4 hour training focused on maintaining a Stanford Medicine site
Both online and classroom training are available for both types of software. See Details
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