User manual MACROMEDIA CONTRIBUTE - USING CONTRIBUTE

Using Contribute Macromedia Contribute TM Trademarks Afterburner, AppletAce, Attain, Attain Enterprise Learning System, Attain Essentials, Attain Objects for Dreamweaver, Authorware, Authorware Attain, Authorware Interactive Studio, Authorware Star, Authorware Synergy, Backstage, Backstage Designer, Backstage Desktop Studio, Backstage Enterprise Studio, Backstage Internet Studio, Contribute, Design in Motion, Director, Director Multimedia Studio, Doc Around the Clock, Dreamweaver, Dreamweaver Attain, Drumbeat, Drumbeat 2000, Extreme 3D, Fireworks, Flash, Fontographer, FreeHand, FreeHand Graphics Studio, Generator, Generator Developer's Studio, Generator Dynamic Graphics Server, Knowledge Objects, Knowledge Stream, Knowledge Track, Lingo, Live Effects, Macromedia, Macromedia M Logo & Design, Macromedia Contribute, Macromedia Flash, Macromedia Xres, Macromind, Macromind Action, MAGIC, Mediamaker, Object Authoring, Power Applets, Priority Access, Roundtrip HTML, Scriptlets, SoundEdit, ShockRave, Shockmachine, Shockwave, Shockwave Remote, Shockwave Internet Studio, Showcase, Tools to Power Your Ideas, Universal Media, Virtuoso, Web Design 101, Whirlwind and Xtra are trademarks of Macromedia, Inc. and may be registered in the United States or in other jurisdictions including internationally. 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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 styles to text. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63 Changing text alignment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64 Indenting text . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64 Creating lists . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65 Creating numbered lists . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65 Creating bulleted lists . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65 Creating definition lists . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66 Creating sublists . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67 Setting List property options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68 Checking spelling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69 Finding and replacing text . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70 CHAPTER 7 Working with Images and Graphical Elements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71 71 72 72 73 73 74 75 76 76 77 77 78 79 Adding an image to a page . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . About inserting images . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Using the Insert menu or Image button to add images to a page. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Dragging images to a page . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Copying and pasting images . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Changing image properties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Editing an image . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Resizing an image . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Moving and aligning images . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Inserting Flash movies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Setting Flash movie properties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Adding and deleting a horizontal rule . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Changing properties for a horizontal rule . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . CHAPTER 8 Working with Tables. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81 81 83 83 84 84 85 86 87 87 88 Inserting a table on a page . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Inserting a table within a table . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Selecting table elements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Selecting an entire table, row, or column . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Selecting a cell, block of cells, or nonadjacent cells . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Resizing tables, rows, and columns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Aligning tables. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Cutting, copying, and pasting cells . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Cutting and copying table cells. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Pasting table cells . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Contents 5 Adding, deleting, and merging table rows and columns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89 Adding rows and columns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89 Deleting rows and columns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90 Merging and splitting cells . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91 Modifying table appearance. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91 About conflicts in table formatting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92 Modifying table properties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92 Modifying row or column properties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94 Modifying cell properties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95 Using a preset table format . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97 Sorting tabular data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98 CHAPTER 9 Working with Links . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101 Creating text and image links . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101 Linking to a draft or recently published page on your website. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102 Linking to a new page. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103 Linking to a page on your website or on another website . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105 Linking to an e-mail address . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107 Linking to a file on your computer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108 Setting the advanced linking options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110 Editing the URL for a link . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110 Setting a target for your page . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111 Linking to a specific place in a page . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112 Editing links . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115 Changing link text and destination. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115 Removing a link . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116 Changing link properties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116 Testing links . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117 CHAPTER 10 Working with Pages with Frames . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119 About frames. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119 Editing frame content . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121 Saving and publishing a page with frames . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122 Targeting frame content . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122 About targeting a frame . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122 Specifying a target frame for a link . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123 CHAPTER 11 Publishing Your Page. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125 Previewing a page in your default browser . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125 Using the e-mail review process for drafts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126 Understanding the e-mail review process . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126 Making your draft available for review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127 Publishing a page to your website . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127 Publishing updates to an existing page . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127 Publishing a new page . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128 Publishing an existing page as a new page . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130 6 Contents Rolling back to a previous version of a page. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131 About rollbacks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131 Using the page Rollback feature . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132 Part II Administering Contribute CHAPTER 12 Learning to Administer Contribute . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135 Intended audience . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135 Typographical conventions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135 Learning to administer Macromedia Contribute . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136 Contribute Quick Start . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136 Contribute How Do I panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136 Contribute Tutorial . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136 Contribute Help. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137 Contribute Support Center . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137 CHAPTER 13 Contribute Administration Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139 139 139 140 140 140 141 About the Contribute website-editing model. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Setting up Contribute . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . About the shared settings file . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Modifying shared settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Website security . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Rollback files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . CHAPTER 14 Creating and Managing Website Connections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143 Creating a Contribute website connection. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143 Creating a connection with the Connection Wizard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145 Providing your name and e-mail address. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 146 Providing your website's URL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 146 Selecting a connection method . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147 Providing FTP information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 148 Setting advanced connection settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149 Becoming a website administrator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150 Selecting a permission group. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151 Reviewing the connection summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151 Becoming an administrator of an existing Contribute website . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151 Configuring sitewide settings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153 Changing the website administrator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153 Changing the administrator's password. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154 Enabling and disabling rollbacks. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155 Specifying the number of rollback pages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155 Contents 7 About advanced sitewide settings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 156 About web server index pages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 156 Adding index page filenames . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157 Removing index page filenames . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 158 About alternate website addresses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159 Specifying alternate web addresses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 160 Managing website connections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161 Removing website connections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161 Editing website connections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 162 Renaming a website . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 162 Disabling a website connection. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163 Enabling a website connection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163 Managing Contribute sites using Dreamweaver MX . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 164 CHAPTER 15 Managing User Settings and Permissions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165 Creating Contribute permission groups. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165 Understanding group permissions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167 Managing settings and permissions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167 Accessing the Permission Group dialog box . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 168 Setting general website permissions. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169 Setting folder and file access permissions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 170 Setting page editing and paragraph permissions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173 Setting style and font permissions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175 Setting permissions for new web pages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 177 New Images . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179 CHAPTER 16 Sharing Website Connections. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 181 Creating a connection key . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 181 Choosing the connection key settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 183 Choosing a connection method . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 183 Selecting a permission group. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 186 Choosing an export method for the connection key . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 186 Reviewing the connection summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 187 CHAPTER 17 Troubleshooting. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 189 Problems installing Contribute . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 189 Problems launching Contribute. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 190 Startup is slow or the application appears to freeze . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 190 The Connection Failure dialog box appears when connected to a network . . . . . . . 190 Contribute doesn't detect that it is disconnected from the network. . . . . . . . . . . . . 190 The Dial-up dialog box is displayed when connected to the network . . . . . . . . . . . 191 Contribute reports that the user is not in a valid permission group . . . . . . . . . . . . . 191 8 Contents Problems creating a connection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Unable to view the My Connections dialog box . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Can't move to the next panel in the Connection Wizard. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Connection Wizard can't locate the remote folder. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Network connection cannot locate the remote folder . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . FTP dialog box fails to accept your user name and password . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Problems editing a page. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Edit Page button is not visible . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . The Edit button is disabled . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Clicking the Edit button displays an error message . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Clicking Edit Page displays a different page . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Problems canceling pages. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . The Cancel button isn't visible . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Clicking the Cancel button reports an error . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Problems sending e-mail reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Problems publishing a page . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Publish button isn't visible . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Clicking the Publish button reports errors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Problems creating new documents from templates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Page templates don't appear in Contribute . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A new page has broken images or other missing elements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Problems administrating Contribute . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . The Administer Websites menu is deactivated . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . I forgot the administrative password . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Can't complete the Connection Wizard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Contribute freezes when sending a connection key . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Clicking Done in the Administer Website dialog box results in errors. . . . . . . . . . . Replacing a deleted web page . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Users don't see enough rollback copies of pages. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Improving application performance by disabling websites. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Removing a single user from a permission group . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Overriding a file checkout in Contribute . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Using Contribute with dynamic pages. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Preventing users from editing dynamic pages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Editing static content in dynamic pages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . APPENDIX Keyboard shortcuts 191 191 192 192 192 193 193 193 194 194 195 195 195 195 195 195 196 196 196 196 197 197 197 198 198 198 198 199 199 199 200 200 201 201 202 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 203 Contents 9 10 Contents Part I Using Contribute Learn how to use Contribute to update and publish web pages within your website. This part contains the following chapters: Part I · · · · · · · · · · · · Chapter 1, "Welcome to Macromedia Contribute" Chapter 2, "Getting Started" Chapter 3, "Exploring the Contribute Workspace" Chapter 4, "Working with Pages" Chapter 5, "Adding Pages and Documents" Chapter 6, "Working with Text" Chapter 7, "Working with Images and Graphical Elements" Chapter 8, "Working with Tables" Chapter 9, "Working with Links" Chapter 10, "Working with Pages with Frames" Chapter 11, "Publishing Your Page" Appendix, "Keyboard shortcuts" CHAPTER 1 Welcome to Macromedia Contribute Macromedia Contribute enables users to easily create and edit web pages on existing websites. Whether you're the one using Contribute to edit web pages or the one managing the website, you'll find Contribute a very useful tool for browsing, editing, and publishing content to a website. The chapter contains the following sections: · "Website development and maintenance overview" on page 13 · "The Contribute workflow" on page 14 · "Learning Macromedia Contribute" on page 14 Website development and maintenance overview Contribute works with your existing website, whether it's an intranet or a public website. It often takes a team of people to get a website up and running and to keep the content current. These are the people you'll interact with when you use Contribute: Web developers create the website. This person (or design team) uses a website creation application, such as Macromedia Dreamweaver, to build the website. The designer is responsible for website planning, design, development, testing, and publishing. For some websites, the designer might use templates to maintain a consistent look and feel across the website. Dreamweaver web developers should see Dreamweaver Help for more information. maintain the website. These are the marketers and managers, educators and students, small business owners, administrative assistants and project managers, and so on, who use Macromedia Contribute to keep their websites up-to-date. The user needs no experience in HTML or web design. Contribute works like a word processor, so it should be familiar to users. Users can add or update text, images, tables, links, and Microsoft Word and Excel documents. This guide is designed for Contribute users. Contribute users Contribute website administrator sets up Contribute users and assists them in using Contribute to maintain the website. The administrator is also responsible for determining which users can edit what content on the website, by setting folder and user permissions. There can be only one website administrator named for each website in Contribute. However, more than one person can administer the website if the website administrator shares the administration password for the website. Contribute website administrators should see "Administering Contribute" for more information. 13 The Contribute workflow Contribute uses a browse-edit-publish workflow to help you easily find the page you want to edit, make changes to the page, and then update the page on your website. Note: You must connect to a website before you can edit and publish pages on that website. For more information, see "Connecting to a website" on page 18. Here's an overview of the Contribute workflow: 1. Browse to a page. Use the Contribute browser to find the web page you want to edit. The browser functions as other web browsers, such as Internet Explorer, and has a familiar look and feel. The browser toolbar has the normal navigation buttons, plus a Choose button to help you navigate to files that aren't linked on your website. You can create bookmarks in Contribute and view your Microsoft Internet Explorer bookmarks. You can also use shortcuts in the Pages panel in the sidebar to quickly access any current drafts. you find the page you want to edit, you click the Edit Page button to open the page in the Contribute editor. Contribute copies the file from your web server and locks it on the server so that no one else can edit the page while you're working on it. You use the Contribute editor as you use a word processor to edit text, images, tables, and links in the page. You can even add a Word or Excel document to your website. The toolbar contains familiar editing buttons, plus buttons for you to save your edits until later, cancel your edits, or publish your edits to the website. 2. Edit your content. When 3. Publish the changes. When you finish editing your page, you are ready to publish the page to your website. All you have to do is click the Publish button and Contribute replaces the existing page on your web server with your edited version so that it is live on your website. Contribute also unlocks the file on the server so that other users can edit the page if necessary. Learning Macromedia Contribute Contribute includes a variety of media resources to help you learn the program quickly. These resources include an online help system, a tutorial, a printed Quick Start guide, and the How Do I reference panel. For information about all of these resources, see "Contribute resources" on page 15. If you're wondering which resource to start with, see "Where to start" on page 14. Where to start The Contribute resources you start with and use regularly depend on what your role is in using Contribute. Contribute website administrators should start with the Quick Start guide to install Contribute and help users get connected. As you use Contribute, refer to the How Do I panel for quick steps to complete common administration tasks, and refer to the online help to get more detailed information about Contribute administration tasks and features. Contribute users should start with the Quick Start guide to understand how to use Contribute to complete basic tasks. Then, complete the tutorial to update some sample web pages and learn more about Contribute. As you use Contribute, refer to the How Do I panel for quick steps to complete common tasks, and refer to the online help to get more detailed and complete information about Contribute tasks and features. For more information about all the resources, see "Contribute resources" on page 15. 14 Chapter 1 Contribute resources The Contribute resources will help you learn to use Contribute. These resources include a printed Quick Start guide, a How Do I reference panel, a tutorial, and an online help system. In addition to these resources you can find regularly updated tips, TechNotes, examples, and information at the Contribute Support Center on the Macromedia website. For information about where to start with the resources, see "Where to start" on page 14. For information about typographical conventions in the resources, see "Typographical conventions in the Contribute resources" on page 16. Contribute Quick Start The Contribute Quick Start guide helps you quickly get started with Contribute. The guide provides information about installing Contribute and connecting to your website, as well as instructions on how to complete common Contribute tasks. Use this guide to learn the basics. The Quick Start is a printed guide included with Contribute. You can also select Help > Quick Start Guide to access the guide. Contribute How Do I panel The Contribute How Do I panel in the sidebar provides quick step-by-step instructions to help you complete some common Contribute tasks. If the task you're looking for is not in the How Do I panel, or is there but you need more information, use Contribute Help to get more detailed information. Contribute Tutorial The Contribute tutorial provides step-by-step instructions to complete particular Contribute tasks. As you complete the tutorial, you'll update the web pages of a sample website and quickly become familiar with Contribute features. A link to information about the tutorial appears on the Welcome page when you first launch Contribute. The tutorial is available in the How Do I panel in the sidebar; click the Contribute Tutorial link to start the tutorial. When you install Contribute, the sample website for the tutorial is copied to your computer at: c:\\documents and settings\yourname\Application Data\Macromedia\Contribute\Configuration\Content\Tutorial. Contribute Support Center The Contribute Support Center website is updated regularly with the latest information on Contribute, plus examples, tips, TechNotes, and other updates. Check the website often for the latest news on Contribute and how to get the most out of the program. Check the website often for the latest news on Contribute and how to get the most out of the program at www.macromedia.com/support/contribute/. Welcome to Macromedia Contribute 15 Contribute Help The Contribute online help system includes information for Contribute users in Using Contribute and for Contribute website administrators in Administering Contribute. Contribute Help provides comprehensive information about all of the Contribute features, optimized for online reading. Contribute Help appears in the help viewer provided by your operating system (Microsoft HTML Help). To use Contribute Help: 1 Select Help > Macromedia Contribute Help or click the Help button in any dialog box for information about the dialog box. Note: A PDF version of the Contribute Help is included on your Contribute CD. 2 Use any of these features to find information in the help system: click top-level entries to view subtopics. · The table of contents enables you to see all of the information organized by subject, and then · The index, like a traditional printed index, enables you to look up specific terms or concepts. · Search enables you to type any character string in the Search text box to find that text anywhere in the help system. · The Previous and Next arrows enable you to move through the topics within a section. Typographical conventions in the Contribute resources The following typographical conventions are used in this guide: · Menu items are shown in this format: Menu name > Menu item name. Items in submenus are shown in this format: Menu name > Submenu name > Menu item name. · Code font indicates HTML tag and attribute names as well as literal text used in examples. · Italic code font indicates replaceable items (sometimes called metasymbols) in code. · Bold roman text indicates menu selections, option names, button and icon names, and text for you to enter verbatim. 16 Chapter 1 CHAPTER 2 Getting Started You need to install Macromedia Contribute, if it is not already installed. Before you install, be sure that your computer meets the minimum setup requirements. Before you can use Macromedia Contribute to edit and update your website's content, you must create a connection to the website--actually, to the web server that stores your website. By creating a connection, you enable Contribute to access the web pages on your website, and you can then edit pages and publish any changes you make. In most cases, your Contribute website administrator will set up Contribute for you, or provide the information for you to connect to your website. Your website administrator is the first person you should contact if you have questions about connecting to your website. This chapter contains the following sections: · · · · "Setup requirements" on page 17 "Installing and launching Contribute" on page 18 "Connecting to a website" on page 18 "Launching Contribute without a network connection" on page 19 Setup requirements Before you install Contribute, make sure your computer meets the minimum hardware and software requirements. Your computer must be connected to the Internet. If you are connecting to the Internet from a business location, you may be connecting through a local area network (LAN). Many home or small business computers connect to the Internet through an Internet Service Provider (ISP), such as Earthlink or America Online. If you can read e-mail or browse the web, you probably have an Internet connection. In addition to having an Internet connection, you need to meet the following system requirements: · · · · · A computer running Microsoft Windows 98, ME, NT (Service Pack 3 or later), 2000, or XP A Pentium II Processor or equivalent, 300 MHz or faster Microsoft Internet Explorer, Version 5.0 or later 64 MB of Random Access Memory (RAM), plus 40 MB of available disk space A 256-color monitor capable of 800 x 600 resolution or better 17 Installing and launching Contribute Before you install Contribute, make sure your computer meets the minimum system requirements (see "Setup requirements" on page 17). Then you are ready to install and launch Contribute. To install and launch Contribute: 1 Insert the Contribute CD into your computer's CD drive. The Contribute installer launches. Follow the onscreen instructions to install the application. When the installation is complete, double-click the Contribute icon on your desktop, or choose Start > Programs > Macromedia > Macromedia Contribute to launch Contribute. The first time you launch Contribute you'll see the registration screen. Click Register Now to register Contribute. Now you're ready to start using Contribute. 2 3 4 Connecting to a website Contribute enables you to connect to your website quickly and easily. Your Contribute website administrator will likely do one of the following to help set up a connection for you: · Send you an e-mail with a website connection key, or a link or network location for you to download the connection key (see "Importing a website connection key" on page 18) The connection key contains all of the network information Contribute needs to connect to your website. · Provide you with the necessary connection information and have you enter the information in the Connection Wizard (see "Creating a Contribute website connection" on page 143) Importing a website connection key Your website administrator might provide a connection key, which you import to establish a connection to your website. The connection key contains all of the network information Contribute needs to connect to your website. The website administrator will send an e-mail with the key attached, or give you the network location for you to download the key. Note: Your website administrator should communicate the connection key password to you. If you do not know the password, contact your website administrator. 18 Chapter 2 To import a website connection key: 1 Open the e-mail containing the connection key. If the connection key is not attached to an e-mail, navigate to the network location of the key, then copy it to your computer. You can also select Edit > My Connections, then click the Import button to navigate to the connection key. 2 Double-click the connection key. (The connection key has an .stc extension, as in myConnection.stc.) Contribute launches (if it is not already running) and the Import Connection Key dialog box appears. 3 Enter your name, e-mail address, and the password for the connection key. Note: If you don't have a password, contact the website administrator who sent you the connection key. The website's home page appears in the Contribute browser. Launching Contribute without a network connection When you launch Contribute, it checks your network connection so that it can connect to your website. Contribute alerts you if it does not detect a connection. If you launch Contribute without a network connection and receive the Connection Failure alert, you have two choices: · Select Work Offline if you know that you're not connected to the network and you want to use the Contribute work offline feature. For more information, see "Using Contribute to work offline" on page 40. · Select Try to Connect Anyway if you aren't sure what the problem is and you want Contribute to try to connect again. If Contribute still cannot connect, you can choose to disable the website and continue checking your other website connections, if any. For more information, see "Disabling your website at startup" on page 20 . For more information about solving connection problems, see Chapter 17, "Troubleshooting," on page 189. Getting Started 19 Disabling your website at startup Contribute alerts you if it detects a problem with any of your website connections when it launches. Contribute displays the alert after the first website connection problem it encounters. You can have Contribute try to connect again. If Contribute still can't connect, you can choose to disable the website connection and try to connect to your other websites, if any. If you disable a website, you can enable it when you resolve your network connection problem. Note: You can choose to disable a website at any time, not just at startup when there's a problem. If you have multiple websites, you might choose to disable websites that you aren't currently working on so that Contribute does not maintain the connection for an extended period of time. For more information, see "Disabling a website connection" on page 163. To disable a website when your network connection fails: 1 Start Contribute. The Connection Failure dialog box appears. Select Try to Connect Anyway to force Contribute to continue checking for a network connection. If Contribute still fails to connect, Contribute displays an error message with two options: 2 3 · Click Yes to continue trying to connect to other websites. · Click No to disable the rest of your websites. 4 Click OK. To enable a disabled website: 1 Select Edit > My Connections. The My Connections dialog box appears. Select a disabled website from the list, then click the Enable button. Click Close. 2 3 20 Chapter 2