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Chapter 1: Resources

Activation and registration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1

Help and support . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2

Services, downloads, and extras . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2

What’s new? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4

Chapter 2: Setting up Contribute

The Contribute workflow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5

Connect to a blog . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6

Connect to a website . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6

Open Contribute . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7

Create your blog/browse to your website . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

Edit your blog/website . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10

Publish your blog/website . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10

Integrate Contribute with Adobe Creative Suite applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10

Integrate Adobe Bridge with Adobe Contribute . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11

Reference . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13

Chapter 3: Workspace

OWL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15

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

Switch between browsing and editing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25

Browse to web pages and blog entries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26

Open web pages and blog entries without browsing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26

Set up access to commonly used pages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29

Set Contribute preferences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30

Change or disable startup password . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32

Set browser encoding . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33

Contribute accessibility features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33

Reference . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35

Chapter 4: Working with existing web pages and blog entries

Overview of working with blogs and web pages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46

Edit existing web pages and blog entries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50

Undo mistakes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55

Save drafts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55

Send web page drafts and files for review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56

Access new review drafts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60

Edit web page drafts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60

Review web page drafts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61

Work with template-based web pages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62

Work offline . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65

Edit web pages in an external application . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67

Edit web page source in an external application . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68

Configure blog server settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68

Discard a draft, new page, or new blog entry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70

Delete a web page or blog entry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70

Export a web page or blog entry (Windows only) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72

Print a web page or blog entry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72

Add Google search . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73

Reference . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73

Chapter 5: Adding pages, blog entries, and documents

Create or copy a page on your website . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76

Create a stand-alone web page . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81

Create a blog entry for your blog . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81

Set page properties for a web page . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85

Add keywords and a description for a web page . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87

Set preferences for blog entries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87

Enter metadata for a blog entry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88

About converting documents to PDFs (Windows only) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92

Add Microsoft Word and Excel documents to a website . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94

Open documents in Contribute from Microsoft Office applications (Windows only) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96

Insert PDFs in Contribute pages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103

Insert HTML code snippets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105

Reference . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105

Chapter 6: Working with text

About HTML and CSS styles in the Contribute Style menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113

Add text to a web page . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113

Format text . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115

Position text on the page . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120

Create lists . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121

Check spelling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126

Find and replace text . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126

Reference . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127

Chapter 7: Working with images and graphic elements

About inserting images and buttons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131

Add an image to a page . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132

Insert shared assets into a web page . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135

Change image properties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136

Change an image’s position or orientation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137

Edit an image in Contribute . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138

Edit an image in an external application . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141

Insert SWF content into your web page . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 142

Insert a video in your web page . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143

Change a video’s position or orientation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 144

Add audio and video files to your blog . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145

Add or delete a horizontal rule . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 148

Insert PayPal e-commerce buttons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149

Reference . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151

Chapter 8: Working with tables

About conflicts in table formatting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 158

Insert tables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 158

Select table elements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 160

Resize tables, rows, and columns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161

Align tables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 162

Cut, copy, and paste cells . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163

Add, delete, or merge table rows and columns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165

Modify table appearance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 168

Sort tabular data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171

Reference . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 172

Chapter 9: Working with links

Create text and image links . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 177

Set the advanced linking options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 184

Edit links . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 189

Test links . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 190

Reference . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 191

Chapter 10: Working with pages with frames

About frames . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 198

Edit frame content . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 199

Save and publish a page with frames . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 200

Target frame content . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 201

Reference . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 202

Chapter 11: Publishing web pages and blog entries

Publishing a page to your website . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 203

Preview a page in your default browser . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 207

Publish a file from your computer to your website . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 208

Replace a file on your website . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 209

Roll back to a previous version of a page . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 211

Publish a document from Microsoft Office (Windows only) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 212

Post content to a blog . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 214

Post content to a blog from RSS aggregators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 217

Publish a blog entry to your blog . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 219

Reference . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 222

Chapter 12: Creating and managing website and blog server connections

About creating and sending website connections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 228

Enable or disable CPS for a website . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 236

Become an administrator of an existing Contribute website . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 239

Configure Contribute administration settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 241

Send connection keys for websites . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 251

Send connections for CPS managed sites . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 253

Add users to websites that CPS manages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 254

Remove users from sites that CPS manages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 255

Configure dependent files for blogs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 255

Manage website and blog server connections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 256

Reference . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 262

Chapter 13: Managing users and roles

About roles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 280

Create Contribute roles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 281

Edit a role’s settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 283

Manage drafts sent for review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 296

Reference . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 297

Chapter 14: Windows keyboard shortcuts

File menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 307

Edit menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 307

View menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 308

Insert menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 308

Format menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 308

Table menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 309

Working with blog entries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 309

Working in templates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 309

Editing text . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 309

Working in tables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 310

Working with images . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 310

Getting help . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 311

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Chapter 15: Macintosh keyboard shortcuts

File menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 312

Edit menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 312

View menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 313

Insert menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 313

Format menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 313

Table menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 314

Help menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 314

Working in templates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 314

Editing text . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 314

Working in tables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 315

Working with images . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 315

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Chapter 1: Resources

Before you begin working with your software, take a few moments to read an overview of activation and the many resources available to you. You have access to instructional videos, plug-ins, templates, user communities, seminars, tutorials, RSS feeds, and much more.

Activation and registration

Help with installation

For help with installation issues, see the Installation Support Center at www.adobe.com/go/cs4install.

License activation

During the installation process, your Adobe software contacts Adobe to complete the license activation process. No personal data is transmitted. For more information on product activation, visit the Adobe website at

www.adobe.com/go/activation.

A single-user retail license activation supports two computers. For example, you can install the product on a desktop computer at work and on a laptop computer at home. If you want to install the software on a third computer, first deactivate it on one of the other two computers. Choose Help

> Deactivate.

Register

❖ To register, follow the on-screen instructions in the Registration dialog box, which appears after you install the

software.

If you postpone registration, you can register at any time by choosing Help > Registration.

Adobe Product Improvement Program

After you use your Adobe software a certain number of times, a dialog box may appear asking whether you want to participate in the Adobe Product Improvement Program.

If you choose to participate, data about your use of Adobe software is sent to Adobe. No personal information is recorded or sent. The Adobe Product Improvement Program only collects information about which features and tools you use and how often you use them.

You can opt in to or out of the program at any time:

• To participate, choose Help > Adobe Product Improvement Program and click Yes, Participate.

• To stop participating, choose Help > Adobe Product Improvement Program and click No, Thank You.

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ReadMe

A ReadMe file for your software is available online and on the installation disc. Open the file to read important information about topics such as the following:

• System requirements

• Installation (including uninstalling the software)

• Activation and registration

• Font installation

• Troubleshooting

• Customer support

• Legal notices

Help and support

Community Help

Community Help is an integrated environment on adobe.com that gives you access to community-generated content moderated by Adobe and industry experts. Comments from users help guide you to an answer. Search Community Help to find the best content on the web about Adobe products and technologies, including these resources:

• Videos, tutorials, tips and techniques, blogs, articles, and examples for designers and developers.

• Complete online Help, which is updated regularly and is more complete than the Help delivered with your product.

If you are connected to the Internet when you access Help, you automatically see the complete online Help rather than the subset delivered with your product.

• All other content on Adobe.com, including knowledgebase articles, downloads and updates, Developer

Connection, and more.

Use the help search field in your product’s user interface to access Community Help. For a video of Community Help,

www.adobe.com/go/lrvid4117_xp.

see

Other resources

Printed versions of the complete online Help are available for the cost of shipping and handling at

www.adobe.com/go/store. Online Help also includes a link to the complete, updated PDF version of Help.

Visit the Adobe Support website at www.adobe.com/support to learn about free and paid technical support options.

Services, downloads, and extras

You can enhance your product by integrating a variety of services, plug-ins, and extensions in your product. You can also download samples and other assets to help you get your work done.

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Adobe creative online services

Adobe® Creative Suite® 4 includes new online features that bring the power of the web to your desktop. Use these features to connect with the community, collaborate, and get more from your Adobe tools. Powerful creative online services let you complete tasks ranging from color matching to data conferencing. The services seamlessly integrate with desktop applications so you can quickly enhance existing workflows. Some services offer full or partial functionality when you’re offline too.

Visit Adobe.com to learn more about available services. Some Creative Suite 4 applications include these initial offerings:

Kuler™ panel Quickly create, share, and explore color themes online.

Adobe® ConnectNow Collaborate with dispersed working teams over the web, sharing voice, data, and multimedia.

Resource Central Instantly access tutorials, sample files, and extensions for Adobe digital video applications.

For information on managing your services, see the Adobe website at www.adobe.com/go/learn_creativeservices_en.

Adobe Exchange

Visit the Adobe Exchange at www.adobe.com/go/exchange to download samples as well as thousands of plug-ins and extensions from Adobe and third-party developers. The plug-ins and extensions can help you automate tasks, customize workflows, create specialized professional effects, and more.

Adobe downloads

Visit www.adobe.com/go/downloads to find free updates, tryouts, and other useful software.

Adobe Labs

Adobe Labs at www.adobe.com/go/labs gives you the opportunity to experience and evaluate new and emerging technologies and products from Adobe. At Adobe Labs, you have access to resources such as these:

• Prerelease software and technologies

• Code samples and best practices to accelerate your learning

• Early versions of product and technical documentation

• Forums, wiki-based content, and other collaborative resources to help you interact with like-minded users.

Adobe Labs fosters a collaborative software development process. In this environment, customers quickly become productive with new products and technologies. Adobe Labs is also a forum for early feedback. The Adobe development teams use this feedback to create software that meets the needs and expectations of the community.

Adobe TV

Visit Adobe TV at http://tv.adobe.com to view instructional and inspirational videos.

Extras

The installation disc contains a variety of extras to help you make the most of your Adobe software. Some extras are installed on your computer during the setup process; others are located on the disc.

To view the extras installed during the setup process, navigate to the application folder on your computer.

• Windows®: [startup drive]\Program Files\Adobe\[Adobe application]

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• Mac OS®: [startup drive]/Applications/[Adobe application]

To view the extras on the disc, navigate to the Goodies folder in your language folder on the disc. Example:

• /English/Goodies/

What’s new?

Workflow enhancements Assign predefined workflows to templates in Adobe® Contribute® CS4 to enforce a

disciplined author-centric publishing process. Web pages created using a template follow the workflow assigned to the template. In all other cases, a default workflow, Author > Publish, is assigned to web pages. The following four workflows can be assigned to templates:

• Author > Publish

• Author > Review > Publish

• Author > Approve > Publish

• Author > Review > Approve > Publish

The toolbar changes dynamically to display buttons for only those actions that are available to the user at the given stage of the publishing cycle.

Edit web pages in your favorite web browser Edit a web page or blog in your favorite browser directly without

opening Contribute. The in-browser editor honors the site connection settings, permissions, and workflow settings in Contribute. The in-browser editor supports Firefox® 2, Internet Explorer® 6, and their later versions.

Support for dynamic websites that use blog protocols Use Contribute to edit content in dynamic sites that use the

MetaWeblog, and Atom blog protocols. In dynamic sites, the contents of an entire page, or parts of it, are stored in a database. Changes to the content in the database are reflected in the corresponding portions of the page.

Dreamweaver CS4 and Flash CS4 support Insert Flash® CS4 files into web pages or blog entries created in Contribute.

Contribute CS4 works with Dreamweaver® templates, which offer editable regions within an over-all protected design. Contribute users can easily edit advanced layout components like Spry widgets, or access in-context editing areas introduced in Dreamweaver CS4

Review web pages using commenting options Reviewers can use the commenting features in Contribute CS4 to

review a web page. The author can view comments posted by reviewers and sort them using the available options.

Expire and delete outdated pages Keep website content fresh with the new expiry notification feature in Contribute

CS4. Set the expiry meta tag value for a single Contribute page or a set of pages to a future date, and send notifications to designated content contributors when pages are close to getting expired.

Specify site-root-relative paths for links Choose to set the path for links relative to the site root or to the web page.

Setting the links to the site-root-relative path helps administrators shuffle documents within the website without worrying about the links being affected.

Auto save documents Prevent data loss resulting from unforeseen circumstances using the option to save documents

automatically at specified time intervals. Define the AutoSave frequency once and Contribute automatically stores the updated drafts when specified. Content remains in draft format until the review and publish process is initiated.

Inline spell checker Minimize spelling errors when typing using the inline spell checker in Contribute. Any spelling

errors are flagged, and the correct options are displayed in the right-click pop-up menu.

Chapter 2: Setting up Contribute

After you have completed installing Adobe® Contribute®, you can set it up to work with an existing website or blog. Administrators can use the workflow in Contribute to enforce processes that help efficiently manage a website.

The Contribute workflow

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.

The team may include the following people:

Web developers Create the website. The web developers (or design team) uses a website-creation application, such as

Adobe Dreamweaver®, to build the website. This team is responsible for planning, designing, developing, testing, and publishing the website. They are also responsible for creating templates for websites that require a consistent look and feel.

Web developers using Dreamweaver should see Dreamweaver Help for more information.

Contribute users Maintain the website. Contribute users are the marketers, managers, educators, students, small-

business owners, administrative assistants, project managers, and so on, who use Contribute to keep their websites upto-date. The user needs no experience in HTML or web design. Because Contribute works like a word processor, the user experience is intuitive and familiar. Users can add or update text, images, tables, links, and Microsoft® Word and Excel® documents.

Contribute administrators Set up Contribute users and help them use Contribute to maintain the website.

Administrators enforce document workflows to web pages by assigning predefined workflows in Contribute to Dreamweaver templates. When you create a page using a Dreamweaver template, the page is assigned the workflow associated with that template. The Contribute administrator is also responsible for setting folder and user permissions, which determine who can edit website content and what contents they can edit. Only one Contribute administrator can be designated for each website in Contribute. However, more than one person can administer the website if the Contribute administrator shares the administration password for the website.

Note: You must connect to a website before you can edit and publish pages on that website, and you must connect to a blog server before you can edit and publish entries in that blog.

The Contribute workflow involves the following steps:

1 Connect to a website or blog.

2 Open Contribute.

3 Create/browse to web a page or blog entry.

Use the Contribute browser to find the web page or blog entry you want to edit. The browser is familiar to users of Microsoft Internet Explorer and other popular browsers. 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 Internet Explorer bookmarks. You can also use shortcuts to view current drafts quickly.

1 Open your web page or blog for editing.

2 Edit your content.

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After you browse to the desired page or blog entry, click the Edit Page or Edit Entry button in the toolbar to open the web page or blog entry in the Contribute editor. Contribute copies the file from your web or blog server and locks it on the server so that no one else can edit the page or blog entry while you’re working on it.

The Contribute editor works much like a word processor. You can edit text, images, tables, and links on the page or blog entry, and you can even add Microsoft Word or Excel documents to your website or blog entry. The toolbar contains familiar editing buttons as well as buttons for saving, discarding, or publishing your edits.

3 Send your content for review or approval.

Depending on the workflow, get your document reviewed or approved before it is published.

4 Publish the changes.

When a web page completes its workflow or you are done with editing your blog, you can publish the page or blog entry to your website or blog server. Click the Publish button, and Contribute replaces the existing page or blog entry on your web server or blog with the edited version. Contribute also unlocks the file on the server so other users can edit the page or blog entry.

Connect to a blog

Install Contribute® if it is not already installed on your computer. Before installation, ensure that your computer meets the minimum setup requirements.

Before you can use Adobe® Contribute to edit and update your website and blog content, you must create a connection to the web server that stores your website or blog. By creating a connection, you enable Contribute to access the web pages on your website and blog entries on your blog, and you can then edit pages and blog entries and publish any changes you make.

In most cases, your Contribute administrator sets up Contribute for you or provides the information you need to connect to your website or blog server.

You can connect to a blog account that is hosted on one of the following:

• A blog publishing service, such as Blogger™, Typepad®, or WordPress®.

• An internal server using a service such as Movable Type® or WordPress.

To connect to a blog, you need the necessary connection information for the blog so you can enter the information in the Connection Wizard. You can use the MetaWeblog API to connect to a blog account that is hosted on a blog publishing service, such as Blogger, WordPress, Roller, or TypePad or an internal server. If you use a Macintosh® computer and have a .Mac account, Contribute detects the .Mac account and asks if you want to create a connection to it.

Note: Connection keys are not used for blog connections; they are available only for website connections.

For more information about connecting to a blog, see “Create a blog server connection” on page 233.

Connect to a website

There are two ways you can connect: by using a connection key that was sent to you, or by entering the connection information manually.

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Your Contribute administrator does one of the following to help set up a connection to your website for you:

• Send you an e-mail message with a website connection key file, which you can use to establish a connection to your

website. The connection key contains all the network information that Contribute needs for connecting to your website.

• Provide the network location from where you can download the connection key.

Note: Connection keys are used only with website connections; they are not used for blog connections.

• Give you the necessary connection information for the website so you can enter the information in the Connection

Wizard (see

If you use a Macintosh computer and have a .Mac account, Contribute detects the .Mac account and asks if you want to create a connection to it.

If your website is managed by Contribute Publishing Server, your administrator sends you a connection key or gives you connection information to enter in the Contribute browser address bar.

“Create a website connection” on page 231).

Connect using a connection key

1 Open the e-mail containing the connection key.

2 Double-click the attachment.

The Import Connection Key dialog box appears or the Log In To Publishing Services dialog box appears.

3 Do one of the following:

• If the Import Connection Key dialog box appears, enter your name, your e-mail address, and the connection key

password, and then click OK.

• If the Log In To Publishing Services dialog box appears, enter your user name and password, and then click OK.

Note: If you don’t have the password, contact your system administrator.

4 If you are prompted for other connection information, such as FTP login, type that information, and then click OK.

When the connection is complete, the website’s home page appears in the Contribute browser.

Connect by entering the connection information manually

1 Select Edit > My Connections (Windows) or Contribute > My Connections (Mac OS), and then click Create.

The Connection Wizard or Connection Assistant appears.

2 Follow the on-screen instructions to enter your connection information.

Your web hosting service or your IT administrator can provide you with the required information. For more information, click the Help button located at the bottom of the dialog box.

Note: During startup, Contribute will not connect to any website or blog server. To change this behavior, in the My Connections dialog box, select the desired website or blog server, and clear the selection of the Don’t Connect To <site/blog> at Startup.

Open Contribute

If the Require Contribute startup password option is selected in the Security category of Preferences, Contribute prompts you for your startup password when you start the program.

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A startup password protects unauthorized users from editing or publishing pages and blog entries to your website or blog. If you do not enter the password when you start Contribute, all web pages and blogs are disabled and cannot be enabled. You can only browse to web pages or blog entries and create web pages or blog entries. After you enter the correct password, you can make updates and publish changes or new entries to the connected websites and blogs until you close Contribute.

In addition to providing secure access, when the Require Contribute Startup password option is selected, Contribute uses a stronger encryption method when saving your connection information on your computer.

Note: If you receive a connection key that requires a Contribute startup password, you must create a startup password before you can import that connection.

Enter a Contribute startup password

1 In the Enter Password dialog box, type the Contribute startup password.

You can enter the password incorrectly only three times before Contribute locks you out. If you are locked out, you can restart Contribute and reenter the startup password.

If you forget your password, you have to delete all of your website connections and add them again.

2 Click OK.

Note: If you click Skip, you bypass the password prompt and Contribute starts. When you skip the password, you can only edit or cancel existing drafts for the website. You won’t be able to edit pages other than drafts, or publish changes to drafts until you restart Contribute and enter the correct startup password.

See also

“Change or disable startup password” on page 32

Start Contribute without a network connection

When you start Contribute, it checks your network connection so that it can connect to your website or blog. Contribute alerts you if it does not detect a connection. You can do one of the following in such circumstances.

1 Start Contribute.

The Connection Failure dialog box appears.

2 Select Work Offline if you know that you’re not connected to the network. For more information, see “Work

offline” on page 65.

3 Select Try To Connect Anyway to force Contribute to continue checking for a network connection.

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

• Click Yes to continue trying to connect to other websites and blog servers.

• Click No to disable the rest of your websites and blog servers. You can later enable them after you resolve your

network connection problem.

5 Click OK.

Note: You can disable a website or blog at any time—not just at startup—when there’s a problem. If you have multiple websites and blogs, you can disable the ones you aren’t currently working on, so Contribute does not maintain the connection for an extended period of time. For more information, see

connections” on page 260.

“Disable individual website and blog

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Enable a disabled website or blog

1 Browse to any page on the website or to any blog entry in the blog, and click Connect in the toolbar.

2 Select Edit > My Connections (Windows) or Contribute > My Connections (Mac OS).

The My Connections dialog box appears.

3 Do one of the following:

• To enable a website, select the website you want to enable from the list, and click Enable.

• To enable a blog, select the blog server under which the blog is listed, and click Enable. All the blogs listed under

this blog server are enabled. You cannot enable individual blogs.

4 Click Close.

Create your blog/browse to your website

Contribute enables you to create and edit blog entries in its visual editor. You can also open and edit content from your browser or a Microsoft® Office application.

For websites, the Contribute browser works like a standard web browser, letting you do the following:

• Navigate to websites and locate pages by clicking links.

• Refresh pages to see updates.

• Reload pages you’ve visited using Back and Forward buttons.

• Enter website addresses in the Address text box.

You can also create new web pages and link them to other web pages, files on your computer, pages on other websites, and e-mail addresses.For more information, see

“Adding pages, blog entries, and documents” on page 76.

Create your blog

You can create a new blog entry from scratch. After you create the entry, you can add content such as text, images, and multimedia.

1 On your blog homepage in the Contribute browser, click the New button in the toolbar or select File > New.

2 In the New Web Page Or Blog Entry dialog box, enter a title for your new blog entry.

3 Click OK. The new entry opens as a draft in Contribute.

Note: Use the My Connections dialog box to select websites and blog servers that Contribute must not connect to during the startup process.

You can browse to any website with Contribute, but you can edit only the pages of websites that you’ve created connections to.

Browse to a website

• Enter a web address (URL) in the Address text box in the toolbar.

• Click links to navigate to a web page.

• Click the Back or Forward button in the toolbar.

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Create new pages

1 In the Contribute browser, click New in the toolbar.

2 In the New Web Page Or Blog Entry dialog box, choose one of the following options:

• Use The Blank Web Page.

• Select A Template Available On The Server.

• Copy One Of The Contribute Starter Web Pages.

3 Click OK. The new page opens as a draft in Contribute.

Note: While Starter web pages are available in Contribute, templates are available on the server. Some templates may not be updated from the server. Use the Refresh Templates button to download the desired template.

Edit your blog/website

You can edit an existing blog entry on any blog/website you’ve connected to. When you browse to such a website, the Edit Page button is enabled.

You can also create new web pages and insert contents from Microsoft documents directly into web pages.

You can edit a document from a Microsoft Office application, or open a web page for editing in your favorite web browsers.

For information on opening and editing existing web pages and blogs, see “Working with existing web pages and blog

entries” on page 46.

For information on opening and editing new web pages and blogs, see “Adding pages, blog entries, and documents” on page 76.

Publish your blog/website

After a web page completes its workflow or you have completed editing a blog, you can publish it to your website or blog from Contribute. You can also publish content from Microsoft Office applications or your web browser.

Note: You will not be able to publish a web page if you do not have publish permissions.

For more information on publishing blogs and websites, see “Publishing web pages and blog entries” on page 203.

Integrate Contribute with Adobe Creative Suite applications

You can run custom startup scripts during the installation of other Adobe Creative Suite® applications to enable access from the relevant suite product to Adobe Contribute. When these scripts are run, Adobe Contribute-related menus, options, and toolbar icons are created in the Creative Suite applications. Also, relevant Creative Suite product-related menus, options, and toolbar icons are created in Adobe Contribute.

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Perform Adobe Contribute-related operations in Creative Suite applications

The Cross DOM is a small API that provides a set of functions that are common across Adobe Creative Suite applications. These include functions to open files, execute scripts, and print files. You can use the Cross DOM API for startup scripts to perform any of the following operations across the Adobe Creative Suite applications:

• Open a new web page or blog entry in Adobe Contribute from another Creative Suite application using the Open

function in the Cross-DOM API. Also, you can open files in Adobe Contribute from another Creative Suite application using the Cross-DOM API in a startup script.

• Open files from the following Creative Suite applications in Adobe Contribute by using the Open function in the

Cross-DOM API: Adobe Bridge®, Adobe Photoshop®, Adobe Illustrato®r, Adobe InDesign®, Adobe Acrobat®, Adobe Flash®, Adobe Dreamweaver®, and Adobe Fireworks®.

• Open video and audio files from the following Creative Suite applications using the Open function in the Cross-

DOM API: Adobe After Effects®, Adobe Premiere® Pro, Adobe Audition®, and Adobe Encore®. If the file can be viewed in the embedded browser, it is opened in the embedded browser.

• Edit files in one of the following Creative Suite applications, and call the Reveal function to switch to Adobe

Contribute: Adobe Bridge, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe InDesign, Adobe Acrobat, Adobe Flash, Adobe Dreamweaver, Adobe Fireworks, Adobe After Effects, Adobe Premiere Pro, Adobe Audition, and Adobe Encore.

• Print files from the following Creative Suite applications in Adobe Contribute using the PDF printer and the Print

function in the Cross-DOM API: Adobe Bridge, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe InDesign, Adobe Acrobat, Adobe Flash, Adobe Dreamweaver, and Adobe Fireworks.

• Print files from the following Creative Suite applications using the Print function in the Cross-DOM API: Adobe

After Effects, Adobe Premiere Pro, Adobe Audition, and Adobe Encore. (Although video files are rarely printed, printing these files lets you verify whether the corresponding applications respond to BridgeTalk messages.)

• Close Adobe Contribute from other Creative Suite applications using the Close function in the Cross-DOM API.

• Quit Adobe Contribute from the following Creative Suite applications using the Quit function in Cross DOM API:

Adobe Bridge, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe InDesign, Adobe Acrobat, Adobe Flash, Adobe Dreamweaver, Adobe Fireworks, Adobe After Effects, Adobe Premiere Pro, Adobe Audition, and Adobe Encore.

Note: Adobe Bridge scripts using the BridgeTalk protocol enable communication between Adobe Contribute and the Adobe Creative Suite applications. The BridgeTalk message object is used to send message packets between the applications.

Integrate Adobe Bridge with Adobe Contribute

The Adobe Bridge software is the new navigational control center built for Adobe Creative Suite applications and their components. Adobe Bridge provides centralized access to your Creative Suite project files, applications, and settings.

Adobe Contribute has been integrated with the Adobe Bridge application in the Adobe Creative Suite release. This integration lets you perform the following tasks:

• Organize assets

• Insert files

• Communicate across applications using the BridgeTalk protocol

• Access Adobe stock photos.

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Insert files from Adobe Bridge into Adobe Contribute

Using Adobe Bridge, you can insert files or folders into web pages or blog entry drafts in Adobe Contribute. If the Contribute draft supports the selected file type, then the selected file is placed in the draft, or a link to the selected file is displayed in the draft. File types which are not supported, are not inserted in the draft.

1 Start Adobe Contribute.

2 Open a draft of a web page or blog entry.

Note: While placing a file in Contribute, if Adobe Contribute is not running, or if a web page or blog entry draft is not open, a message is displayed indicating that there is no open draft to place the file.

3 Select File > Browse or click the Bridge toolbar icon .

Note: You can select multiple files or folders to place in a Contribute draft.

Adobe Bridge is opened in a new window.

4 In Adobe Bridge, select the file you want to insert.

5 Select File > Place > In Contribute.

The file, or a link to the file is inserted in the Contribute draft. If you select a file type which is not supported, such a file is not inserted in the draft.

Note: You can also insert a file into a Contribute web page or blog entry draft by dragging the file from Windows Explorer or Mac OS Finder, and dropping it into the Contribute web page or blog entry draft.

See also

“Publish files from Adobe Bridge to Adobe Contribute (Windows only)” on page 13

Open files from Adobe Bridge in Adobe Contribute (Windows Only)

You can select a file in Adobe Bridge, and open the file in Adobe Contribute.

1 Start Adobe Bridge.

2 Select the file you want to open in Contribute.

Note: You can open only Microsoft Word documents with .doc or .docx extension, and Microsoft Excel documents with .xls, .xlsm, or .xlsx extension.

3 Select Tools > Contribute > Open In Contribute.

Note: The Tools > Contribute > Open In Contribute menu is available for the Windows platform only.

Contribute is started and the contents of the Word or Excel document are inserted in the web page draft based on the insertion option you selected.

See also

“Open documents in Contribute from Microsoft Office applications (Windows only)” on page 96

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Publish files from Adobe Bridge to Adobe Contribute (Windows only)

You can select the following file types in Adobe Bridge, and publish them in Adobe Contribute: .doc, .xls, .docx, .xlsm, and .xlsx. When you publish a Microsoft Office document that contains other files, the additional files are copied to your web page draft automatically.

1 Start Adobe Bridge.

2 Select the file you want to publish to Adobe Contribute.

3 Select Tools > Contribute > Publish To Website.

Note: The Tools > Contribute > Publish To Website menu is available for the Windows platform only.

The Publish To Website dialog box appears.

4 To select the settings for publishing the document, do the following:

a Select the website where you want to publish the file.

Note: If you do not have a connection to your website before you publish a document, you can create one by selecting Create New Connection in the Select pop-up menu in the Publish To Website dialog box. For more information on creating a website connection, see

b Select a location for storing the file.

Note: You can select multiple files or folders from Adobe Bridge to publish in Contribute.

“Create a website connection” on page 231.

c Enter a filename. The filename must not have any spaces, tabs, or alphanumeric characters.

d Select a format.

e (Optional) Clear the Publish Current Selection Only check box to publish the whole document instead of the

selection.

You can also set these preferences in the Microsoft Documents tab from the Edit menu in Contribute. To do this, select Edit > Preferences > Microsoft Documents and make a selection. For more information on setting

these preferences, see

5 Click Publish.

Contribute publishes the document to your web page, and a confirmation dialog box appears.

Note: If Contribute is not running when you publish a file from Adobe Bridge to Contribute, Adobe Contribute is started first, and then the Publish To Website dialog box is opened.

6 Click OK.

“Set Contribute preferences” on page 30.

See also

“Integrate Adobe Bridge with Adobe Contribute” on page 11

“Insert files from Adobe Bridge into Adobe Contribute” on page 12

“Publish a document from Microsoft Office (Windows only)” on page 212

Reference

This section provides information about the dialog boxes introduced in this chapter.

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Completing the Import Connection Key dialog box

Use the Import Connection Key dialog box to import a connection key that establishes a connection to your website. Connection keys are available only for websites; they are not available for blogs.

1 Enter your name and your e-mail address.

2 Enter the password for the connection key.

Note: If you don’t have a password, contact the Contribute administrator who sent you the connection key.

3 Click OK.

When the connection is complete, the home page of the website appears in the Contribute browser.

Entering an FTP password

The Contribute administrator might send you a connection key that does not include the FTP login and password information. An FTP password and user name are required to access password-controlled files on the server.

When you import a connection key that doesn’t include the required FTP information, Contribute displays the FTP password dialog box after you enter your name, e-mail address, and password for the connection key.

Note: Connection keys are available only for websites; they are not available for blogs.

If you are connecting to a local network computer, the login information you enter in this dialog box is typically the same as your network login information.

1 In the Username text box, type your FTP user name.

2 In the Password text box, type your password.

3 Click OK.

The Connection Failure dialog box

1 If Contribute can’t detect a network connection for one or more of your websites or blogs, the Connection Failure

dialog box gives you two choices:

• Select Work Offline if you know that you’re not connected to the network and you want to work offline. For

more information, see

• 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 disable one or more of your website or blog connections.

2 Click OK.

“Work offline” on page 65.

Chapter 3: Workspace

You can use Adobe® Contribute® as a web browser and as a web page editor. You can easily switch between browsing web pages and editing web pages. The Contribute workspace makes it easy for you to access pages, whether you’re browsing or editing.

You can navigate the Contribute dialog boxes and workspace without using your mouse. You can also set preferences to customize Contribute.

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Workspace overview

You create and manipulate your documents and files using various elements, such as panels, bars, and windows. Any arrangement of these elements is called a workspace. The workspaces of the different applications in Adobe® Creative Suite® 4 share the same appearance so that you can move between the applications easily. You can also adapt each application to the way you work by selecting from several preset workspaces or by creating one of your own.

Although the default workspace layout varies in different products, you manipulate the elements much the same way in all of them.

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Default Illustrator workspace A. Tabbed Document windows B. Application bar C. Workplace switcher D. Panel title bar E. Control panel F. Tools panel G. Collapse To Icons button H. Four panel groups in vertical dock

• The Application bar across the top contains a workspace switcher, menus (Windows only), and other application

controls. On the Mac for certain products, you can show or hide it using the Window menu.

• The Tools panel contains tools for creating and editing images, artwork, page elements, and so on. Related tools are

grouped.

• The Control panel displays options for the currently selected tool. The Control panel is also known as the options

bar in Photoshop. (Adobe Flash®, Adobe Dreamweaver®, and Adobe Fireworks® have no Control panel.)

• Flash, Dreamweaver, and Fireworks have a Property inspector that displays options for the currently selected

element or tool.

• The Document window displays the file you’re working on. Document windows can be tabbed and, in certain cases,

grouped and docked.

• Panels help you monitor and modify your work. Examples include the Timeline in Flash, the Layers panel in Adobe

Photoshop®, and the CSS Styles panel in Dreamweaver. Panels can be grouped, stacked, or docked.

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• On the Mac, the Application frame groups all the workspace elements in a single, integrated window that lets you

treat the application as a single unit. When you move or resize the Application frame or any of its elements, all the elements within it respond to each other so none overlap. Panels don’t disappear when you switch applications or when you accidentally click out of the application. If you work with two or more applications, you can position each application side by side on the screen or on multiple monitors. If you prefer the traditional, free-form user interface of the Mac, you can turn off the Application frame. In Adobe Illustrator®, for example, select Window > Application Frame to toggle it on or off. (In Flash, the Application frame is on permanently. Dreamweaver does not use an Application frame.)

Hide or show all panels

• (Illustrator, Adobe InCopy®, Adobe InDesign®, Photoshop, Fireworks)To hide or show all panels, including the

Tools panel and Control panel, press

• (Illustrator, InCopy, InDesign, Photoshop) To hide or show all panels except the Tools panel and Control panel,

press Shift+Tab.

You can temporarily display hidden panels if Auto-Show Hidden Panels is selected in Interface preferences. It’s always on in Illustrator. Move the pointer to the edge of the application window (Windows®) or to the edge of the

monitor (Mac

OS®) and hover over the strip that appears.

• (Flash, Dreamweaver, Fireworks) To hide or show all panels, press F4.

Tab.

Display panel options

❖ Click the panel menu icon in the upper-right corner of the panel.

You can open a panel menu even when the panel is minimized.

(Illustrator) Adjust panel brightness

❖ In User Interface preferences, move the Brightness slider. This control affects all panels, including the Control

panel.

Reconfigure the Tools panel

You can display the tools in the Tools panel in a single column, or side by side in two columns. (This feature is not available in the Tools panel in Fireworks and Flash.)

In InDesign and InCopy, you also can switch from single-column to double-column (or single-row) display by setting an option in Interface preferences.

❖ Click the double arrow at the top of the Tools panel.

Manage windows and panels

You can create a custom workspace by moving and manipulating Document windows and panels. You can also save workspaces and switch among them.

Note: The following examples use Photoshop for demonstration purposes. The workspace behaves the same in all the products.

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Narrow blue drop zone indicates Color panel will be docked on its own above the Layers panel group. A. Title bar B. Tab C. Drop zone

In Photoshop, you can change the font size of the text in the Control panel, in the panels, and in tool tips. Choose a size from the UI Font Size menu in Interface preferences.

Manage Document windows

When you open more than one file, the Document windows are tabbed.

• To rearrange the order of tabbed Document windows, drag a window’s tab to a new location in the group.

• To undock a Document window from a group of windows, drag the window’s tab out of the group.

• To dock a Document window to a separate group of Document windows, drag the window into the group.

Note: Dreamweaver does not support docking and undocking Document windows. Use the Document window’s Minimize button to create floating windows.

Workspace

• To create groups of stacked or tiled documents, drag the window to one of the drop zones along the top, bottom, or

sides of another window. You can also select a layout for the group by using the Layout button on the Application bar.

Note: Some products do not support this functionality. However, your product may have Cascade and Tile commands in the Window menu to help you lay out your documents.

• To switch to another document in a tabbed group when dragging a selection, drag the selection over the document’s

tab for a moment.

Note: Some products do not support this functionality.

Dock and undock panels

A dock is a collection of panels or panel groups displayed together, generally in a vertical orientation. You dock and undock panels by moving them into and out of a dock.

Note: Docking is not the same as stacking. A stack is a collection of floating panels or panel groups, joined top to bottom.

• To dock a panel, drag it by its tab into the dock, at the top, bottom, or in between other panels.

• To dock a panel group, drag it by its title bar (the solid empty bar above the tabs) into the dock.

• To remove a panel or panel group, drag it out of the dock by its tab or title bar. You can drag it into another dock

or make it free-floating.

Navigator panel being dragged out to new dock, indicated by blue vertical highlight

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Navigator panel now in its own dock

You can prevent panels from filling all the space in a dock. Drag the bottom edge of the dock up so it no longer meets the edge of the workspace.

Move panels

As you move panels, you see blue highlighted drop zones, areas where you can move the panel. For example, you can move a panel up or down in a dock by dragging it to the narrow blue drop zone above or below another panel. If you drag to an area that is not a drop zone, the panel floats freely in the workspace.

• To move a panel, drag it by its tab.

• To move a panel group or a stack of floating panels, drag the title bar.

Press Ctrl (Windows) or Command (Mac OS) while moving a panel to prevent it from docking. Press Esc while moving the panel to cancel the operation.

Note: The dock is stationary and can’t be moved. However, you can create panel groups or stacks and move them anywhere.

Add and remove panels

If you remove all panels from a dock, the dock disappears. You can create a dock by moving panels to the right edge of the workspace until a drop zone appears.

• To remove a panel, right-click (Windows) or Control-click (Mac) its tab and then select Close, or deselect it from

the Window menu.

• To add a panel, select it from the Window menu and dock it wherever you want.

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Manipulate panel groups

• To move a panel into a group, drag the panel’s tab to the highlighted drop zone in the group.

Adding a panel to a panel group

• To rearrange panels in a group, drag a panel’s tab to a new location in the group.

• To remove a panel from a group so that it floats freely, drag the panel by its tab outside the group.

• To move a group, drag the title bar (the area above the tabs).

Stack floating panels

When you drag a panel out of its dock but not into a drop zone, the panel floats freely. The floating panel allows you to position it anywhere in the workspace. You can stack floating panels or panel groups so that they move as a unit when you drag the topmost title bar. (Panels that are part of a dock cannot be stacked or moved as a unit in this way.)

Free-floating stacked panels

• To stack floating panels, drag a panel by its tab to the drop zone at the bottom of another panel.

• To change the stacking order, drag a panel up or down by its tab.

Note: Be sure to release the tab over the narrow drop zone between panels, rather than the broad drop zone in a title bar.

• To remove a panel or panel group from the stack, so that it floats by itself, drag it out by its tab or title bar.

Resize panels

• To minimize or maximize a panel, panel group, or stack of panels, double-click a tab. You can also single-click the

tab area (the empty space next to the tabs).

• To resize a panel, drag any side of the panel. Some panels, such as the Color panel in Photoshop, cannot be resized

by dragging.

Manipulate panels collapsed to icons

You can collapse panels to icons to reduce clutter on the workspace. In some cases, panels are collapsed to icons in the default workspace.

Panels collapsed to icons

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Panels expanded from icons

• To collapse or expand all panel icons in a dock, click the double arrow at the top of the dock.

• To expand a single panel icon, click it.

• To resize panel icons so that you see only the icons (and not the labels), adjust the width of the dock until the text

disappears. To display the icon text again, make the dock wider.

• To collapse an expanded panel back to its icon, click its tab, its icon, or the double arrow in the panel’s title bar.

In some products, if you select Auto-Collapse Icon Panels from the Interface or User Interface Options preferences, an expanded panel icon collapses automatically when you click away from it.

• To add a floating panel or panel group to an icon dock, drag it in by its tab or title bar. (Panels are automatically

collapsed to icons when added to an icon dock.)

• To move a panel icon (or panel icon group), drag the icon. You can drag panel icons up and down in the dock, into

other docks (where they appear in the panel style of that dock), or outside the dock (where they appear as floating, expanded panels).

Restore the default workspace

• Select the default workspace from the workspace switcher in the Application bar.

• (Photoshop) Select Window > Workspace > Default Workspace.

• (InDesign, InCopy) Select Window > Workspace > Reset [Workspace Name].

Save and switch workspaces

By saving the current size and position of panels as a named workspace, you can restore that workspace even if you move or close a panel. The names of saved workspaces appear in the workspace switcher in the Application bar.

In Photoshop, the saved workspace can include a specific keyboard shortcut set and menu set.

Save a custom workspace

1 With the workspace in the configuration you want to save, do one of the following:

• (Photoshop, Illustrator) Choose Window > Workspace > Save Workspace.

• (InDesign, InCopy) Choose Window > Workspace > New Workspace.

• (Dreamweaver) Choose Window > Workspace Layout > New Workspace.

• (Flash) Choose New Workspace from the workspace switcher in the Application bar.

• (Fireworks) Choose Save Current from the workspace switcher in the Application bar.

2 Type a name for the workspace.

3 (Photoshop, InDesign) Under Capture, select one or more options:

Panel Locations Saves the current panel locations.

Keyboard shortcuts Saves the current set of keyboard shortcuts (Photoshop only).

Menus Saves the current set of menus.

4 Click OK or Save.

Display or switch workspaces

❖ Select a workspace from the workspace switcher in the Application bar.

In Photoshop, you can assign keyboard shortcuts to each workspace to navigate among them quickly.

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Delete a custom workspace

• Select Manage Workspaces from the workspace switcher in the Application bar, select the workspace, and then

click Delete. (The option is not available in Fireworks.)

• (Photoshop, InDesign, InCopy) Select Delete Workspace from the workspace switcher.

• (Illustrator) Choose Window > Workspace > Manage Workspaces, select the workspace, and then click the Delete icon.

• (InDesign) Choose Window > Workspace > Delete Workspace, select the workspace, and then click Delete.

(Photoshop) Start with the last or default panel locations

When you start Photoshop, panels can either appear in their original default locations, or appear as you last used them.

In Interface preferences:

• To display panels in their last locations on startup, select Remember Panel Locations.

• To display panels in their default locations on startup, deselect Remember Panel Locations.

The Contribute workspace

The Contribute workspace has three main areas: the Contribute browser and editor, the toolbar, and the sidebar.

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A. Sidebar B. Toolbar C. Start page in the browser and editor

The Contribute browser and editor

The main window in Contribute is used for browsing and editing. If you are not sure whether you are browsing or editing in Contribute, look at the toolbar. The toolbars are different when you are browsing and when you are editing a draft.

When you use the Contribute browser, you can browse to any web page—not just to pages on your website. The Contribute browser functions as a true web browser: Click links in web pages to browse to the page you want to edit. You can also create bookmarks to pages that you visit frequently.

When you use the Contribute editor, you can edit pages in websites you have connected to (see “Connect to a blog” on page 6). You can edit text, images, tables, links, and pages with frames.

It’s easy to browse and edit in Contribute, and to switch between browsing and editing. For more information, see “Switch between browsing and editing” on page 25.

The Contribute toolbars

The Contribute toolbar changes according to whether you are browsing or editing a web page or a blog entry. When you are editing a web page, the editor toolbar lets you edit text or images, depending on the content you’ve selected. And when you are editing a draft for your blog, the blog metadata and secondary metadata toolbars help you tag your blog pages.

When you receive or open a web page, the toolbar displays buttons for only those actions that you can perform at that stage of the workflow, and to which you have permissions.

The Browser toolbar Contains buttons for navigating your website or creating a page or blog entry. The browser

toolbar contains the same options for websites and blogs.

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Contents

Chapter 1: Resources

Activation and registration

Help with installation

License activation

Register

Adobe Product Improvement Program

ReadMe

Help and support

Community Help

Other resources

Services, downloads, and extras

Adobe creative online services

Adobe Exchange

Adobe downloads

Adobe Labs

Adobe TV

Extras

What’s new?

Chapter 2: Setting up Contribute

The Contribute workflow

Connect to a blog

Connect to a website

Connect using a connection key

Connect by entering the connection information manually

Open Contribute

Enter a Contribute startup password

Start Contribute without a network connection

Enable a disabled website or blog

Create your blog/browse to your website

Create your blog

Browse to a website

Create new pages

Edit your blog/website

Publish your blog/website

Integrate Contribute with Adobe Creative Suite applications

Perform Adobe Contribute-related operations in Creative Suite applications

Integrate Adobe Bridge with Adobe Contribute

Insert files from Adobe Bridge into Adobe Contribute

Open files from Adobe Bridge in Adobe Contribute (Windows Only)

Publish files from Adobe Bridge to Adobe Contribute (Windows only)

Reference

Completing the Import Connection Key dialog box

Entering an FTP password

The Connection Failure dialog box

Chapter 3: Workspace

Workspace overview

Hide or show all panels

Display panel options

(Illustrator) Adjust panel brightness

Reconfigure the Tools panel

Manage windows and panels

Manage Document windows

Dock and undock panels

Move panels

Add and remove panels

Manipulate panel groups

Stack floating panels

Resize panels

Manipulate panels collapsed to icons

Restore the default workspace

Save and switch workspaces

Save a custom workspace

Display or switch workspaces

Delete a custom workspace

(Photoshop) Start with the last or default panel locations

The Contribute workspace

The Contribute browser and editor

The Contribute toolbars