Are Editable Regions Required to Use Contribute

I have a website that was not developed with Contribute editable regions and templates. Instead we used server side includes and my client wants to use Contribute to edit everything but the SSI. Is this possible? And no, I would prefer not to have to go back and create templates/editable regions on this site with many pages.

If no Dreamweaver Template is set at all, they should be able to use Contribute to edit every html page that renders properly in the browser when accessed via a URL typed into Contributes the location bar.. (Or used to, I havent tried this in ages.)
Anyway, however, this has a tendency to get really messy. You got no way to control what theyre doing, Contributes editing functions are limited and they or Contribute might screw up your code in the process (like unsupported attributes, script code, getting nuked etc.).
If you got a DW template defined and locked and no editable region exists, then all Contribute users would be locked out from editing pages.
I love Contribute, but in a situation like this, I would probably vote against using it. At the very least, wrap your main content area in one single editable region...
Maybe you might want to grab a trial of Contribute CS5 and check it out as soon as it gets available in May and work with a backup copy of your site to see for yourself.

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