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Part Number ZCT10M200 Acknowledgments Project Management: Kim Diezel Writing: Chris Bedford, Jed Hartman, Jennifer Rowe Managing Editor: Rosana Francescato Editing: Lisa Stanziano, Rebecca Godbois Production Management: Patrice O'Neill Multimedia Design and Production: Aaron Begley, Benjamin Salles Print and Help Design and Production: Christopher Basmajian, John Francis Special thanks to Luciano Arruda, Don Booth, Darrick Brown, Ian Chase, Kristin Conradi, Mary Ferguson, Deb Galdes, Noah Hoffman, Joel Huff, Narciso (nj) Jaramillo, Brady Kroupa, Sho Kuwamoto, Erik Larson, Eric Lerner, David Lessard, Bonnie Loo, Josh Margulis, Charles McBrian, Sheila McGinn, Charles Nadeau, Masayo Noda, Kimberly Oslob, Emilio Passi, Dina Pinza, Scott Richards, Ken Sundermeyer, Paola Uscher, Kaori Wolff, Mitsuko Yoneyama, and the Contribute engineering and QA teams. First Edition: November 2002 Macromedia, Inc. 600 Townsend St. San Francisco, CA 94103 2 CONTENTS Part I Using Contribute CHAPTER 1 Welcome to Macromedia Contribute . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 13 14 14 14 15 16 Website development and maintenance overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . The Contribute workflow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Learning Macromedia Contribute . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Where to start. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Contribute resources. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Typographical conventions in the Contribute resources . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . CHAPTER 2 Getting Started . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 17 18 18 18 19 20 Setup requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Installing and launching Contribute . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Connecting to a website . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Importing a website connection key . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Launching Contribute without a network connection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Disabling your website at startup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . CHAPTER 3 Exploring the Contribute Workspace . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 22 22 23 23 24 25 26 26 26 26 27 The Contribute workspace . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . The Contribute browser/editor. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . The Contribute toolbars . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . The Contribute sidebar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Browsing and editing pages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Navigating to web pages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Viewing drafts and new pages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Viewing home pages for your websites . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Viewing recently published pages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Viewing pages and files that you can't browse to . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Setting up access to commonly used pages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Setting Contribute preferences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28 Setting general preferences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29 Setting file editor preferences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29 Setting firewall preferences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30 Setting invisible element preferences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30 Setting browser encoding. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31 Using Contribute accessibility features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31 Using screen readers with Contribute . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31 Using operating system accessibility features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31 Using the keyboard to navigate Contribute. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32 Authoring for accessibility . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33 CHAPTER 4 Working with Pages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35 Editing existing web pages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36 About editing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36 Opening a page for editing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36 Undoing mistakes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37 Saving drafts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37 Saving a draft while you work. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37 Saving a draft until later . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37 Working with pages based on Dreamweaver templates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38 About templates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38 Editing a template-based page . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39 Setting template properties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40 Using Contribute to work offline . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40 Working offline in the Contribute editor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41 Switching between working online and working offline . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41 Editing content in an external application . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42 Canceling a draft or new page . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43 Deleting a web page . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43 Exporting a Page . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44 Printing a page . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44 CHAPTER 5 Adding Pages and Documents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45 45 46 46 46 46 47 49 51 53 53 54 54 Creating or copying a page on your website. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Copying a page on your website . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Creating a blank web page . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Copying a sample web page . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Creating a page based on a template . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Creating a new page and a link to the page . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Creating a new page without linking to it . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Setting page properties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Adding keywords and a description for a page . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Adding Word and Excel documents to a website . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Adding Word or Excel content to a page. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Inserting a link to a Word or Excel document. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Contents CHAPTER 6 Working with Text . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57 Adding text to a web page . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57 Adding the current date to a page . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58 Adding special characters to a page . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59 Formatting text . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60 Changing text font and size . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60 Changing text style . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62 Changing text color . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63 Applying ...