MACROMEDIA CONTRIBUTE, Manual

Page 1: ...yright information along the bottom The power of templates though lies in the various methods of editing or modifying certain sections of the page The template creator picks certain areas of the templ...

Page 2: ...in your bookmarks list 4 If you want to add the page to a folder click an existing folder name or click New Folder to add a folder 5 Click OK Creating a new page from a template 1 In Contribute choos...

Page 3: ...feature that you will be using In Contribute a basic editable area looks like the image below The light blue green outline defines the editable region In this example both the Department Name area an...

Page 4: ...Optional Regions You can enable optional regions by clicking on Template Properties link Select optional region check Show and then click ok Your page will now display the optional right navigation...

Page 5: ...g as you have permission and as long as someone else is not currently editing the page When you browse to a page the message area under the toolbar indicates whether you can edit that page Opening a p...

Page 6: ...on 1 In the Contribute browser or editor select View Choose File on Website or click the Choose button in the browser toolbar The Choose File on Website dialog box appears 2 To edit the left navigatio...

Page 7: ...ce developers can specify that every table on the site will have a 2 pixel red border Every new table that is made will automatically have that rule applied 3 CSS Selectors Selectors are used to speci...

Page 8: ...t the selection and select None from the Style drop down menu Adding Word and Excel documents to a website With Contribute you can easily add Microsoft Word and Microsoft Excel documents or content to...

Page 9: ...el document in an existing page When you publish the page with the link Contribute copies the Word or Excel document into your website and then links to that copy not to the original file on your comp...

Page 10: ...an affect the layout of content within a cell Cell Spacing This is the amount of space between the borders of the cells Table Header A header is a row that is used to distinguish columns or rows If yo...

Page 11: ...you can select it and click and drag on the lower right corner to resize it A word about table widths Table widths can be set as a pixel value or a percentage value Pixel values are good when you want...

Page 12: ...ursor in the first cell of the row or column hold down the Shift key and click in the last cell To select certain cells only you can only merge touching cells hold down the Ctrl key and click in all t...

Page 13: ...Properties Set the values and Click OK to close the dialog box Formatting a table Contribute has built in table formatting These are predefined ways of setting color and formatting schemes To Format a...

Page 14: ...dded to the page that tells the browser to go to the specified page when someone clicks on the link Making links is easy and this document explains the different kinds of links and how to make them in...

Page 15: ...template 2 Select the type of new page you want to create 3 Give the page a title This is the title that will appear at the top left of the browser window when the page is viewed on the web The title...

Page 16: ...o mark a specific topic or place You can then create links to the anchor that allow website visitors to jump to the specified position in the page This is commonly used on pages like glossaries that a...

Page 17: ...the following Click the Image button in the toolbar Select Insert Image 3 Select From My Computer or From Website from the pop up menu The Select Image or Choose Image from Website dialog box appears...

Page 18: ...ting click the Cancel button in the toolbar Contribute discards the new page Publishing Your Page Publishing a draft makes it live on your website so that your website visitors can view the page Befor...

Page 19: ...viewer s e mail address 3 In the body of the message add a message if you want Contribute includes a message with the web address for the temporary copy of the draft 4 Send the e mail message 5 In Con...

Page 20: ...paces Be sure to add shtml to the end of whatever filename you choose This is extremely important Not adding shtml will make many areas of the page disappear or become broken The filename appears at t...

Page 21: ...ename appears at the end of the web address for the web page The web address is the location where Contribute saves the page on your website Rolling back to a previous version of a page 1 Browse to th...