MACROMEDIA CONTRIBUTE-USING CONTRIBUTE Use Manual

Using Contribute

Macromedia Contribute

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Trademarks

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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,

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Authoring, Power Applets, Priority Access, Roundtrip HTML, Scriptlets, SoundEdit, ShockRave, Shockmachine, Shockwave,

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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

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CONTENTS

Part I

Using Contribute

CHAPTER 1

Welcome to Macromedia Contribute

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Website development and maintenance overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13

The Contribute workflow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14

Learning Macromedia Contribute . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14

Where to start. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14

Contribute resources. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15

Typographical conventions in the Contribute resources . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16

CHAPTER 2

Getting Started

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Setup requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17

Installing and launching Contribute . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18

Connecting to a website . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18

Importing a website connection key . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18

Launching Contribute without a network connection. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19

Disabling your website at startup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20

CHAPTER 3

Exploring the Contribute Workspace

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The Contribute workspace . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22

The Contribute browser/editor. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22

The Contribute toolbars. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23

The Contribute sidebar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23

Browsing and editing pages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24

Navigating to web pages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25

Viewing drafts and new pages. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26

Viewing home pages for your websites . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26

Viewing recently published pages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26

Viewing pages and files that you can’t browse to . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26

Setting up access to commonly used pages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27

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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

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Creating or copying a page on your website. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45

Copying a page on your website . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46

Creating a blank web page . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46

Copying a sample web page . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46

Creating a page based on a template . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46

Creating a new page and a link to the page. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47

Creating a new page without linking to it. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49

Setting page properties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51

Adding keywords and a description for a page . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53

Adding Word and Excel documents to a website . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53

Adding Word or Excel content to a page. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54

Inserting a link to a Word or Excel document. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54

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CHAPTER 6

Working with Text

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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

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Adding an image to a page . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71

About inserting images . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72

Using the Insert menu or Image button to add images to a page. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72

Dragging images to a page . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73

Copying and pasting images. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73

Changing image properties. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74

Editing an image . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75

Resizing an image . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76

Moving and aligning images . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76

Inserting Flash movies. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77

Setting Flash movie properties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77

Adding and deleting a horizontal rule . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78

Changing properties for a horizontal rule . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79

CHAPTER 8

Working with Tables

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Inserting a table on a page . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81

Inserting a table within a table . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83

Selecting table elements. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83

Selecting an entire table, row, or column . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84

Selecting a cell, block of cells, or nonadjacent cells . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84

Resizing tables, rows, and columns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85

Aligning tables. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86

Cutting, copying, and pasting cells . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87

Cutting and copying table cells. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87

Pasting table cells . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88

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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

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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

About the Contribute website-editing model. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139

Setting up Contribute . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139

About the shared settings file. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140

Modifying shared settings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140

Website security . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140

Rollback files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141

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

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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

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Problems creating a connection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 191

Unable to view the My Connections dialog box . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 191

Can’t move to the next panel in the Connection Wizard. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 192

Connection Wizard can’t locate the remote folder. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 192

Network connection cannot locate the remote folder . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 192

FTP dialog box fails to accept your user name and password . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 193

Problems editing a page. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 193

Edit Page button is not visible . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 193

The Edit button is disabled . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 194

Clicking the Edit button displays an error message. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 194

Clicking Edit Page displays a different page . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 195

Problems canceling pages. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 195

The Cancel button isn’t visible . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 195

Clicking the Cancel button reports an error . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 195

Problems sending e-mail reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 195

Problems publishing a page . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 195

Publish button isn’t visible . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 196

Clicking the Publish button reports errors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 196

Problems creating new documents from templates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 196

Page templates don’t appear in Contribute . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 196

A new page has broken images or other missing elements. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 197

Problems administrating Contribute . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 197

The Administer Websites menu is deactivated . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 197

I forgot the administrative password. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 198

Can’t complete the Connection Wizard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 198

Contribute freezes when sending a connection key . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 198

Clicking Done in the Administer Website dialog box results in errors. . . . . . . . . . . 198

Replacing a deleted web page . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 199

Users don’t see enough rollback copies of pages. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 199

Improving application performance by disabling websites. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 199

Removing a single user from a permission group . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 200

Overriding a file checkout in Contribute . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 200

Using Contribute with dynamic pages. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 201

Preventing users from editing dynamic pages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 201

Editing static content in dynamic pages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 202

APPENDIX

Keyboard shortcuts

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Contents10

Part I

Using Contribute

Learn how to use Contribute to update and publish web

pages within your website.

This part contains the following chapters:

• 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”

Part I

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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.

Contribute users 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 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.

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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.

2. Edit your content. When 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.

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.

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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/.

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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:

• The table of contents enables you to see all of the information organized by subject, and then

click top-level entries to view subtopics.

• 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)incode.

• Bold roman text indicates menu selections, option names, button and icon names, and text for

you to enter verbatim.

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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

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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.

2 Follow the onscreen instructions to install the application.

3 When the installation is complete, double-click the Contribute icon on your desktop, or

choose Start > Programs > Macromedia > Macromedia Contribute to launch Contribute.

4 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.

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.

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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.

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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.

2 Select Try to Connect Anyway to force Contribute to continue checking for a

network connection.

3 If Contribute still fails to connect, Contribute displays an error message with two options:

• 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.

2 Select a disabled website from the list, then click the Enable button.

3 Click Close.

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