Macromedia Using Contribute User Manual

Using Contribute

Macromedia Contribute

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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

Part I Using Contribute

CHAPTER 1

Welcome to Macromedia Contribute

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

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

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

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45

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

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57

Adding text to a web page . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57

Adding the current date to a page. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58

Adding special characters to a page . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59

Formatting text . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60

Changing text font and size . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60

Changing text style. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62

Changing text color . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63

Applying styles to text. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63

Changing text alignment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64

Indenting text . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64

Creating lists . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65

Creating numbered lists . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65

Creating bulleted lists . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65

Creating definition lists . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66

Creating sublists. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67

Setting List property options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68

Checking spelling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69

Finding and replacing text. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70

CHAPTER 7

Working with Images and Graphical Elements

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71

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

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81

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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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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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

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.

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

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

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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Exploring the Contribute Workspace

You can use Macromedia Contribute as both a web browser and 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.

This chapter includes the following sections:

• “The Contribute workspace” on page 22

• “Browsing and editing pages” on page 24

• “Navigating to web pages” on page 25

• “Setting Contribute preferences” on page 28

• “Setting browser encoding” on page 31

• “Using Contribute accessibility features” on page 31

The Contribute workspace

The Contribute workspace is made up of the following main areas: the Contribute browser/ editor, toolbar, and sidebar.

Toolbar

Welcome page in the browser/editor

Sidebar

This section covers the following topics:

• “The Contribute browser/editor” on page 22

• “The Contribute toolbars” on page 23

• “The Contribute sidebar” on page 23

The Contribute browser/editor

In the Contribute browser, you can browse to any web page—not just pages on your website. The Contribute browser functions as a true web browser; simply 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.

In the Contribute editor, you can edit pages in websites you’ve connected to. You can edit text, images, tables, links, and even pages with frames. Then, you can publish your changes to make the updated web page live on your website.

It’s easy to browse and edit in Contribute, and to switch between browsing and editing. For more information, see “Browsing and editing pages” on page 24.

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The Contribute toolbars

The Contribute toolbar changes, depending on whether you are browsing or editing a page.

The browser toolbar contains buttons for navigating your website or creating a new page.

The editor toolbar contains buttons for editing and common operations from the File, Insert,

Format, and Table menus.

Page properties

Text styling

Spell check

Text alignment

Insert content

Lists

Indentation

Add row/column

Color

The Contribute sidebar

The Contribute sidebar makes it easy to switch between editing and browsing, and makes it easy to access your drafts and newly created pages. You can also use the sidebar to get quick instructions for performing tasks in Contribute.

The sidebar has two parts:

• The Pages panel includes access to the web browser and all drafts and new pages you’re

currently editing.

• The How Do I panel provides quick step-by-step instructions to help you complete some

common Contribute tasks. The list of tasks changes, depending on whether you’re browsing or editing.

Click any link in the How Do I panel in the sidebar to get more information on that task. If the task you’re looking for is not in the list, see Contribute Help (Help > Macromedia Contribute Help to get detailed information.

Note: For more information about using Contribute resources to get help, see “Contribute resources” on page 15.

You can expand or collapse the panels and the sidebar.

To expand or collapse the sidebar:

• Select View > Sidebar or click the arrow on the splitter bar between the sidebar and the

Contribute browser/editor.

To resize the sidebar:

• Drag the splitter bar between the sidebar and the Contribute browser/editor.

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To expand or collapse the panels in the sidebar:

• Click the arrow in the panel title bar.

To resize panels vertically in the sidebar:

• Drag the title bar in the How Do I panel.

Browsing and editing pages

You can use Contribute to browse or edit web pages. When you are browsing, you’ll see the browser toolbar, with the Edit Page button. Use the

Contribute browser like any web browser—enter web addresses, click links to navigate pages, use the Back and Forward buttons, or select recently viewed pages.

Note: If you use Internet Explorer as your primary web browser, the Contribute web browser inherits preferences from Internet Explorer. To change basic settings, such as fonts, cookies, or plug-ins, change your preferences in Internet Explorer, then launch Contribute again.

You can browse to any website with Contribute—not just pages in your websites—but you can only edit pages in your websites; that is, websites that you’ve created connections to (see “Connecting to a website” on page 18). When you browse to a page that is in your website and that you have permission to edit, the Edit Page button is enabled in the toolbar.

Note: If there is a Create Connection button in the toolbar, then you cannot edit that page (unless you connect to the website).

When you edit a page, the editor toolbar appears and the page becomes a draft you can edit. The draft’s title appears in the Pages panel. You can switch between browsing and editing at any time. When you leave a draft you’re editing, Contribute saves your changes so that you can return to the draft later and continue editing where you left off.

When you finish editing your draft, you can publish it so that it is live on you website (see “Publishing Your Page” on page 125).

To switch from browsing to editing, do one of the following:

• Click the Edit Page button in the toolbar.

Note: Edit Page is only enabled for pages in a website you’ve connected to and you have permission to edit.

• Click a draft or new page title in the Pages panel in the sidebar.

To switch from editing to browsing, do one of the following:

• Click Browser in the Pages panel in the sidebar.

• Click the Save for Later button in the toolbar.

• Select View > Browser.

Note: These options do not publish your draft. When you finish editing, and publish the draft, the page appears in the Contribute browser.

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Navigating to web pages

The easiest way to find a web page you want to edit, is to browse to the page in Contribute, just as you would browse to a page in any web browser. For information about editing pages, see “Editing existing web pages” on page 36.

To browse to a web page in Contribute, do one of the following:

• Click links in web pages to navigate to other pages.

• Type the web address (URL) of the page in the Address text box, then press Enter or click Go.

• Select View > Go to Web Address, enter the web address (URL), then click OK.

Contribute enables you to quickly access the following pages:

• Current drafts or new pages

• Home pages for the websites you’ve connected to

• Recently published pages

• Pages or files that aren’t linked from another page on your website

• Bookmarks for frequently accessed pages

Drafts and new pages

Bookmarks

Home pages for your websites

Pages that aren’t linked

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Viewing drafts and new pages

Drafts you are currently editing, and new pages you’ve created but haven’t published yet, appear in the Pages panel. You can also access these pages using the File menu.

To view a draft or new page, do one of the following:

• Click the draft or new page title in the Pages panel in the sidebar.

• Select File > Drafts, then select a page from the pop-up menu.

Viewing home pages for your websites

You can use the toolbar to access home pages for websites you’ve connected to. You can also access these pages using the View menu.

To view the home page for a website you’ve connected to, do one of the following:

• Click the Home Pages button on the toolbar, then select a home page.

• Select View > Home Pages, then select a home page from the pop-up menu.

Viewing recently published pages

You can use the View menu to quickly access pages you’ve recently published.

To view a recently published page:

• Select View > Recently Published Pages, then select a page from the pop-up menu.

Viewing pages and files that you can’t browse to

Contribute enables you to access pages and files associated with your website that you can’t browse to. Use the Choose button in the toolbar to access pages and files that are saved in a website folder, but aren’t linked from any page on your website.

To view a page or file that is not linked from another page:

1 In the Contribute browser or editor, select View > Choose File on Website or click the

Choose button in the browser toolbar. The Choose File on Website dialog box appears.

2 Select a file by doing one of the following:

• If the file is in a folder on the website you are currently browsing, then select a file.

• If the file is not in a folder on the current website, use the Look In pop-up menu to navigate to

the correct website folder, then select a file. When you select a file, depending on the file type, a preview might appear so that you can be

sure you’re selecting the correct file.

3 Click OK.

The page or file appears in the Contribute web browser.

Note: If you select a file type that the Contribute browser can’t display, you’ll see the File Placeholder page.

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Setting up access to commonly used pages

Contribute enables you to keep a list of bookmarks for pages that you frequently visit. You can add a bookmark for any page—not just pages in websites you’ve connected to.

When you add a page as a bookmark in Contribute, it appears in your list of bookmarks (up to 1000 bookmarks). Contribute also includes your Internet Explorer bookmarks (up to 2000 bookmarks) in the Other Bookmarks list under your Contribute bookmarks.

This section covers the following topics:

• “Viewing pages in your bookmarks list” on page 27

• “Adding a page to your bookmarks” on page 27

• “Deleting a page from your bookmarks” on page 28

Viewing pages in your bookmarks list

You can select pages in your list of bookmarks to quickly access those pages. To add a page to your bookmarks, see “Adding a page to your bookmarks” on page 27. To delete

a page from your bookmarks, see “Deleting a page from your bookmarks” on page 28.

To view a page in your list of bookmarks, do one of the following:

• To view a Contribute bookmark, select Bookmarks, then select a bookmark from the list.

• To view an Internet Explorer bookmark, select Bookmarks > Other Bookmarks, then select a

bookmark from the list.

Adding a page to your bookmarks

You can add any web page—not just pages in websites you’ve connected to—to your bookmarks list.

To view bookmarks, see “Viewing pages in your bookmarks list” on page 27. To delete a page from your bookmarks, see “Deleting a page from your bookmarks” on page 28.

To add a page to your list of bookmarks:

1 Browse to the page you want to add to your bookmarks list. 2 Select Bookmarks > Add Bookmark from the menu.

The Add Bookmark dialog box appears.

3 If you want to change the name of the bookmark, enter a new name in the Name text box.

This is the name that appears in your bookmarks list.

4 If you want to add the page to a folder, click an existing folder name or click New Folder to

add a folder.

5 Click OK.

Contribute adds the page to your bookmarks list in the Bookmarks menu.

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Deleting a page from your bookmarks

You can delete any page from your bookmarks list, or you can delete a bookmarks folder. To view bookmarks, see “Viewing pages in your bookmarks list” on page 27; to add a page to

your bookmarks, see “Adding a page to your bookmarks” on page 27.

To delete a bookmark:

1 Select Bookmarks > Delete Bookmark.

The Delete Bookmark dialog box appears.

2 Select the name of the bookmark or the folder you want to delete. 3 Click Delete.

Contribute removes the page from your bookmarks list in the Bookmarks menu.

4 If you want to delete another bookmark or folder, select it, then click Delete again. 5 Click Close when you finish deleting bookmarks.

Setting Contribute preferences

Use the Preferences dialog box to set your user preferences for Contribute. You can set preferences for general editing, file editors, your firewall, and invisible elements.

To edit user preferences:

1 Select Edit > Preferences.

The Preferences dialog box appears.

2 Select a category from the list on the left:

• Select General to set editing options or options for inserting Word and Excel documents (see

“Setting general preferences” on page 29).

• Select File Editors to select primary application editors by file type (see“Setting file editor

preferences” on page 29).

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• Select Firewall to add or change settings for your firewall (see “Setting firewall preferences” on

page 30).

• Select Invisible Elements to hide or show invisible elements (see “Setting invisible element

preferences” on page 30).

Setting general preferences

You can set editing options, and determine how Contribute handles Microsoft Word and Excel documents when you insert them in a page, in the Preferences dialog box.

To set the General preferences:

1 Select Edit > Preferences, then select General from the category list on the left. 2 In the Editing options section, change either of the following options:

• Select or deselect Faster table editing.

When this option is enabled, Contribute does not always redraw a table as you edit it. Selecting this option might improve performance when you edit large tables. When you want Contribute to redraw the table, click outside of the table, switch to another draft or the browser, or publish the draft.

• Select a dictionary from the Spelling dictionary pop-up menu.

3 In the Microsoft Word or Excel documents section, select an option to indicate what action

Contribute performs when you insert a Word or Excel document in a draft.

4 Click OK.

Setting file editor preferences

When you need to edit web page content, such as an image, in an external application, Contribute launches the application for you. You can select or change your primary editing applications for each file type you edit in the Preferences dialog box.

To change the editor for a file type:

1 Select Edit > Preferences, then select File Editors from the category list on the left. 2 Select a file type in the left pane.

Associated editors appear in the right pane. If the application you want to select is in the pane, then skip to step 5.

3 Click the Plus (+) button above the right pane.

The Select External Editor dialog box appears.

4 Navigate to the application you want to add, then click Open.

The application name appears in the right pane.

5 Select the application you want Contribute to launch for the selected file type, then click the

Make Primary button. The word Primary appears beside the application name.

6 Click OK.

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To add a file type and associate an editor:

1 Select Edit > Preferences, then select File Editors from the category list on the left. 2 Click the Plus (+) button above the left pane, then type the file type. 3 Click the Plus (+) button above the right pane.

The Select External Editor dialog box appears.

4 Navigate to the application you want to associate with the new file type, then click Open.

The application appears name appears in the right pane.

5 Click OK.

To delete a file type or associated editor:

1 Select Edit > Preferences, then select File Editors from the category list on the left. 2 Select a file type in the left pane or an application in the right pane. 3 Click the Minus (-) button above the pane.

The file type or application name disappears from the pane.

4 Click OK.

Setting firewall preferences

If you use a firewall, use the Preferences dialog box to enter or change your host and port.

To set firewall preferences:

1 Select Edit > Preferences, then select Firewall from the category list on the left. 2 In the Firewall host text box, enter the name of the firewall host. 3 In the Firewall port text box, enter the network port number through which FTP access is

enabled.

4 Click OK.

Setting invisible element preferences

You can turn invisible elements, such as section anchors, on or off in the Preferences dialog box. For more information about section anchors, see “Linking to a specific place in a page” on

page 112.

To make section anchors visible or invisible:

1 Select Edit > Preferences, then select Invisible Elements from the category list on the left. 2 Select or deselect the Show section anchors when editing a page check box. 3 Click OK.

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Setting browser encoding

You can set the browser encoding for a page, to determine how the page appears in the Contribute browser. You might need to set encoding if characters aren’t displaying properly in the Contribute browser.

To change browser encoding:

1 In the Contribute browser, right-click in the page. 2 Do one of the following:

• Select a browser encoding from the pop-up menu.

• Select More from the pop-up menu, then select a browser encoding.

Using Contribute accessibility features

Accessibility refers to making websites and web products usable for people with visual, auditory, motor, and other disabilities. Contribute provides features that make it accessible to users with disabilities.

This section covers the following topics:

• “Using screen readers with Contribute” on page 31

• “Using operating system accessibility features” on page 31

• “Using the keyboard to navigate Contribute” on page 32

• “Authoring for accessibility” on page 33

Using screen readers with Contribute

A screen reader recites text that appears on the computer screen. It also reads non-textual information, such as button labels or image descriptions, in the application.

As a Contribute user, you can use a screen reader to assist you in editing your web pages. The screen reader starts reading in the top left corner of the application.

Contribute supports the following screen readers:

• JAWS for Windows, from Freedom Scientific (www.freedomscientific.com)

• Window Eyes screen readers, from GW Micro (www.gwmicro.com)

Using operating system accessibility features

Contribute supports the Windows operating system high contrast setting. You activate this option through the Windows control panel.

When high contrast is on, it affects Contribute as follows:

• Dialog boxes and panels use system color settings.

For example, if you set the color to White on Black, then all Contribute dialog boxes and panels appear with a white foreground color and black background.

• The Contribute editor uses the background and text colors you set in Format > Page Properties

so that pages you design render colors as a website visitor’s browser will render them.

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Using the keyboard to navigate Contribute

While you are editing, you can use the keyboard to navigate the Contribute workspace, dialog boxes, and tables without a mouse.

You can also use keyboard shortcuts to open some dialog boxes and perform some commands. For a list of shortcuts, see “Keyboard shortcuts” on page 203.

This section covers the following topics:

• “Navigating the workspace” on page 32

• “Navigating dialog boxes” on page 32

• “Navigating tables” on page 33

Navigating the workspace

You can use keyboard shortcuts to navigate the Contribute workspace—that is, to access the menus and to switch between the Contribute browser and editor. For a complete list of Contribute keyboard shortcuts, see “Keyboard shortcuts” on page 203.

All of the items in the Pages panel and toolbar are accessible through the menus. To access information about the tasks covered in the How Do I panel, use Contribute Help (Help > Macromedia Contribute Help).

To use the keyboard to navigate dialog boxes and tables, see “Navigating dialog boxes” on page 32 and “Navigating tables” on page 33.

To use the keyboard to switch from Contribute the browser to the editor, do one of the following:

• Press Control+Shift+E, to edit the current page.

Note: This works the same as clicking the Edit Page button in the toolbar.

• Press Alt+F, press Alt+F again, then use the arrow keys to select a current draft or new page

from the pop-up menu. The drafts and new pages listed in the Pages panel appear in this list.

To use the keyboard to switch from the Contribute editor to the browser:

• Press Control+Shift+B.

Note: This works the same as clicking Browser in the Pages panel.

Navigating dialog boxes

You can use the keyboard to navigate dialog boxes. To navigate the workspace, see “Navigating the workspace” on page 32. To navigate tables, see

“Navigating tables” on page 33.

To navigate a dialog box:

• To move through dialog box options, press Tab.

• To move through choices for an option, use the arrow keys.

For example, if an option has a pop-up menu, move focus to that option, then use the Down Arrow key to move through the choices.

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• To move through a category list, press Control+Tab to shift focus to the category list, then use

the arrow keys to move up or down the list. To see an example of a category list, select Edit > Preferences.

• To shift to the options for a category in a category list, press Control+Tab.

• To accept a choice and exit the dialog box, press Enter.

• To close the dialog box without making any changes, press Esc+Alt+F4.

Navigating tables

After you select a table, you can use the keyboard to navigate through it. To navigate the workspace, see “Navigating the workspace” on page 32. To navigate dialog boxes,

see “Navigating dialog boxes” on page 32.

To navigate a table:

1 In the Contribute editor, do one of the following to select the table:

• If the insertion point is to the left of the cell, press Shift+Right Arrow.

• If the insertion point is to the right of the cell, press Shift+Left Arrow.

2 Press the Down Arrow key to position the insertion point in the first cell. 3 Use the arrow keys or press Tab to move to other cells as necessary.

Tip: Pressing Tab in a right-most cell adds another row to the table.

4 To select a cell, press Control+A while the insertion point is in the cell. 5 To exit the table, use the Select All command (Control+A), then press the Up, Left, or Right

arrow key.

Authoring for accessibility

As you edit your web pages, it’s important to keep accessibility in mind for your website visitors. The U.S. government and other organizations have established accessibility legislation and

guidelines. For more information about two significant initiatives, see the World Wide Web Consortium Web Accessibility Initiative (www.w3.org/wai) and Section 508 of the Federal Rehabilitation Act (www.section508.gov).

Also, be sure to keep screen readers in mind as you edit your pages. Contribute helps you make your images and tables more accessible in the following ways:

• You can add descriptive text for screen readers to describe images in your pages. Your website

administrator can enable Contribute to prompt you for a description whenever you insert an image. For more information, talk to you website administrator or see “Setting page editing and paragraph permissions” on page 173.

• You can apply headings to your tables for screen readers. To insert tables with headings, see

“Inserting a table on a page” on page 81.

Note: Screen readers do not read headings that you create by making text bold and centered in a row or column.

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CHAPTER 4

Working with Pages

Macromedia Contribute enables you to edit existing pages on your website, including pages based on templates. You can cancel your edits or cancel a new page if you need to. If you have permission, you can delete pages and file types on your website. You can also export a page to an HTML file.

Note: For information about creating new pages, see “Creating or copying a page on your website” on page 45.

If you need to edit content such as an image or other file type on a web page, you can use Contribute to open the file in an external editing application.

You can also use Contribute without a network connection to edit pages. Using the work offline feature, you can work on an airplane, at home, or wherever, and publish your pages when you reestablish your network connection.

Contribute updates the existing page on your website with your edited page when you publish the draft (see “Publishing Your Page” on page 125).

This chapter contains the following sections:

• “Editing existing web pages” on page 36

• “Saving drafts” on page 37

• “Working with pages based on Dreamweaver templates” on page 38

• “Using Contribute to work offline” on page 40

• “Editing content in an external application” on page 42

• “Canceling a draft or new page” on page 43

• “Deleting a web page” on page 43

• “Exporting a Page” on page 44

• “Printing a page” on page 44

Editing existing web pages

You can edit any pages on your website, as long as you have permission and as long as someone else is not currently editing the page.

This section covers the following topics:

• “About editing” on page 36

• “Opening a page for editing” on page 36

• “Undoing mistakes” on page 37

For information about changing properties for an existing page, see “Setting page properties” on page 51. For information about adding keywords or a description for an existing page, see “Adding keywords and a description for a page” on page 53.

About editing

You can edit pages on websites that you’ve connected to (see “Connecting to a website” on page

18) and have permission to edit. You cannot edit a page if the page is locked—that is, if someone else is currently editing it. When you browse to a page, the message area under the toolbar indicates whether you can edit that page.

While you edit a page, Contribute saves it as a draft, and the draft title appears in the Pages panel in the sidebar. For information about opening a page for editing, see “Opening a page for editing” on page 36. For information about working with drafts, see “Saving drafts” on page 37.

Note: If you want to edit a Microsoft document that you’ve linked to on your website, see “Editing content in an external application” on page 42.

There might be restrictions on which parts of a draft you can edit. Your website administrator can create a template with locked regions or can set up editing constraints that restrict editing to text only.

Note: If you do not have permission to edit a page or part of a page that you need to edit, talk to your website administrator or see “Managing User Settings and Permissions” on page 165.

Opening a page for editing

To open a page for editing, simply browse to the page or use the Contribute workspace to quickly access special pages (see “Navigating to web pages” on page 25). For information about drafts, see “Saving drafts” on page 37.

To edit a page:

1 Browse to a page you want to edit. 2 Do one of the following:

• Click the Edit Page button in the toolbar.

• Select File > Edit Page.

The page appears in the Contribute editor as a draft, and the draft title appears in the Pages panel.

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Undoing mistakes

In Contribute, as in most applications, you can undo individual mistakes as you make them. You can also redo an edit if you decide that you don’t want to undo it.

Note: In Contribute, you can also discard changes, after you publish your draft, by reverting to a previously published version of a page if you need to. For more information, see “Rolling back to a previous version of a page” on page 131.

To undo an edit:

• Select Edit > Undo.

To redo an edit:

• Select Edit > Redo.

Saving drafts

You can save a draft while you work (see “Saving a draft while you work” on page 37), or you can save a draft and switch to another draft or to the browser (“Saving a draft until later” on page 37).

Saving a draft while you work

When you edit a page (see “Editing existing web pages” on page 36), Contribute automatically saves the page as a draft, and the draft title appears in the Pages panel in the sidebar. Contribute continues to save your draft as you work on it, but you can also periodically save your work if you want.

To save a draft and continue working:

• Select File > Save.

Note: When you save a new page for the first time, you do not give it a filename; you select a filename when you publish the new page.

Saving a draft until later

You can save a draft you’re editing and work on another draft, switch to browsing, or close Contribute. Contribute saves your draft anytime you leave it, and keeps the draft in the Pages panel until you publish (see “Publishing Your Page” on page 125) or cancel (see “Canceling a draft or new page” on page 43) it.

To save a draft until later:

1 Do one of the following to leave your draft:

• Click Browser in the sidebar to switch to the browser.

• Select View > Browser to switch to the browser.

• Click the Save for Later button in the toolbar to close the draft and switch to the browser.

• Click another draft or new page in the Pages panel to edit that page.

• Close Contribute.

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2 If you closed Contribute, restart the application. 3 Click the draft title in the Pages panel to return to the draft you were previously editing.

The draft appears in the Contribute editor for you to continue editing.

Working with pages based on Dreamweaver templates

A Macromedia Dreamweaver template is a special type of page that contains a preset page layout, and includes elements, such as text and images. In Contribute, you can create a page based on a template. You can also edit a page based on a template or edit template properties for a page based on a template.

This section covers the following topics:

• “About templates” on page 38

• “Editing a template-based page” on page 39

• “Setting template properties” on page 40

For information about creating a page based on a template, see “Creating a page based on a template” on page 46.

About templates

A Dreamweaver template contains a preset page layout, and includes elements, such as text and images. A template gives you a starting point for new website pages and can ensure that your website has a consistent look when you create pages based on a template (a template- based page).

For example, the company employee template might contain basic elements and provide sections for employee information. Suppose the template has the company logo and address, and blank sections for the employee’s name, department, phone number, and picture. Any new employee page based on the company employee template would inherit the same page layout.

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In a template, the designer creates regions to control which elements on a template-based page you can edit. There are editable regions in a template, which you can edit, and locked regions, which you can’t edit. In the employee template example, the company logo and address might be in a locked region. The employee information sections would be editable regions.

Locked region

Editable region

Editing a template-based page

In a page based on a Dreamweaver template (a template-based page), there are editable regions, where you can add or edit content, and there are locked regions, where you cannot add or edit content.

Note: If you try to edit a locked region in a document based on a template, the pointer changes to indicate that you can’t click in a locked region.

When you view a template-based page, you see outlines around the editable regions. The editable regions each have a tab at the upper left giving the name of that content area. The tabs show you where you can add or update content on the page.

For example, a product template-based page might have a Title region, for the product title, and a Description region, for a product description. You add content to the appropriate sections.

You can edit the editable regions of a template-based page as you would edit any other web page.

To edit a template-based page:

1 Browse to the template-based page you want to edit. 2 Do one of the following:

• Click the Edit Page button in the toolbar.

• Select File > Edit Page.

The page appears as a draft in the Contribute editor. You can make edits in the editable regions.

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Setting template properties

The Dreamweaver template designer might enable you to show or hide parts of the page. You control this content in the Template Properties dialog box. In pages based on a template, there might also be editable attributes of the page, such as background color, which you can edit in template properties.

To modify template properties:

1 Browse to a template-based page, then click the Edit Page button in the toolbar. 2 Select Format > Template Properties.

The Template Properties dialog box opens.

3 In the Name list, select a property.

The bottom of the dialog box updates to show the selected property’s label and its assigned value.

4 In the field to the right of the property label, edit the value to modify the property. 5 Click OK.

Using Contribute to work offline

Contribute gives you the freedom to edit web pages without a network connection. Using the work offline feature of Contribute, you can work on an airplane, at home, or anywhere.

While you are working offline, you can edit drafts, but you cannot use the Contribute browser (see “Working offline in the Contribute editor” on page 41). Contribute remains offline—even if you establish a network connection—until you switch to working online (see “Switching between working online and working offline” on page 41).

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To launch Contribute to work offline:

1 Start Contribute without a network connection.

The Connection Failure dialog box appears.

2 Select Work Offline. 3 Click OK.

The Contribute browser displays the Working offline page. Click a draft title in the Pages panel to start editing.

Working offline in the Contribute editor

When you’re working offline, the Contribute browser displays information about what you can do offline. You cannot browse to other pages or websites when you are offline.

You can edit current drafts in the Pages panel or create new pages while you’re offline. Not all of the Contribute editor functions are available when you’re offline. For example, you can’t publish pages until you are online again.

Tip: Before you work offline, be sure to save any pages you need as drafts. You cannot access home pages or recently published pages while you are offline.

To edit a draft while working offline:

• Click a draft or new page title in the Pages panel of the sidebar.

The draft opens in the Contribute editor.

To create a new page while working offline:

• Select File > New Page.

The new page opens in the Contribute editor and its title appears in the Pages panel.

To delete a new page while working offline

1 Open any new page that you created while working offline.

Note: You can only delete pages that you created while working offline. You cannot cancel changes to a draft while working offline.

2 Click the Cancel button in the toolbar or select File > Cancel Draft.

Contribute removes the new page from the Pages panel and opens the Contribute Working offline page.

Switching between working online and working offline

If you start Contribute offline without a server connection, or switch from online to offline while you are using Contribute, then you can switch to working online whenever you establish a server connection.

Note: Contribute does not reestablish the connection to your web server. You must connect to the server before you switch to working online in Contribute.

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To switch from working online to working offline:

• Select File > Work Offline.

Note: Switching to work offline does not disconnect your network connection.

To switch to working online after working offline:

1 Restore your network connection, if necessary. 2 Do one of the following:

• Deselect File > Work Offline.

• Click the Work Onl ine button in the toolbar.

Editing content in an external application

If you have images, Microsoft Word documents, Macromedia Flash content, or other file types on your website that you want to edit, you need to edit that content in the application in which it was created. Use Contribute to edit the file in the appropriate application.

Note: You need to use Contribute to edit the file; changes you make to the local, original source file will not appear on your website.

Before you can use Contribute to launch an external application editor, you might need to associate an editor with the file type you intend to edit (see “Setting file editor preferences” on page 29). Contribute has preassigned editors for common file types.

To edit content in an external application:

1 To find the content you want to edit, do one of the following:

• Browse to the page or file that contains the content you want to edit.

• Click the Choose button in the toolbar, navigate to the file you want to edit, then click OK.

• Enter the path for the file you want to edit in the Address text box, then click Go.

2 If the Contribute browser cannot display the page or file you’ve selected, you’ll see the File

Placeholder page. To edit the page or file, you need to associate a file editor with this file type (see “Setting file

editor preferences” on page 29).

3 Select the content you want to edit, if necessary.

For example, if you want to edit an image on a page, select the image. If you want to edit the page, a Word page for example, you do not need to select content.

4 Click the Edit button in the toolbar or select File > Edit.

Note: To edit an image on a draft, select File > Edit Image or right-click the image, then select Edit Image.

Contribute displays the External Application Editing page and launches an external editing application.

Note: To change your default editor, see “Setting file editor preferences” on page 29.

5 If you are editing an image in Macromedia Fireworks, click No in the Find Source dialog box

to indicate that you do not want to edit the source file for this image; you want to edit the image for your website only.

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6 In the external application, make changes as necessary, then save your changes and close

the application.

Note: If you are editing in Fireworks, click the Done button in the editing window.

7 In Contribute, click the Publish button in the toolbar to publish your changes to the website.

Note: If you need to make additional edits before you publish, click the Launch button on the External Application Editing page to open the content in the external editor.

The updated content appears in Contribute.

Canceling a draft or new page

When you are editing a draft of an existing page, you can decide to discard all changes and retain the currently published version of the page. When you are editing a new page that you created, you can discard the new page.

Also, if your administrator has given you permission, you can delete pages that are published on your website. For more information, see “Deleting a web page” on page 43.

To cancel changes to a draft of a published page:

• In your draft, click the Cancel button in the toolbar.

The published version of the page appears in the Contribute browser, without any edits.

To cancel a new page:

• In the new page you’re editing, click the Cancel button in the toolbar.

Contribute discards the new page.

Deleting a web page

You can delete pages from your website if your website administrator has given you permission. In addition to deleting pages, you can delete any file type on your website, including image files.

Note: If you do not have permission to delete a page that you need to delete, talk to your website administrator or see “Setting folder and file access permissions” on page 170

You do not need special permission to delete a new page that you created and haven’t published yet. For more information, see “Canceling a draft or new page” on page 43.

To delete a page or file:

1 Do one of the following to find the page or file:

• Browse to the page or file you want to delete.

• Click the Choose button in the toolbar, then select a file and click OK.

Note: If Contribute cannot display the page or file you browse to, you’ll see the File Placeholder page. You can still delete the page or file, even though you can’t view it.

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2 Select File > Delete Page.

Note: This menu item is disabled if you do not have permission to delete pages on your website.

An alert appears.

3 Click Yes to confirm that you want to delete the file.

Contribute deletes the page and displays the last page you viewed in the browser.

Exporting a Page

Contribute enables you to export a page from Contribute to an external HTML file. You can save the file anywhere you choose on your computer or network.

If you export a new page with images—that is, a page you haven’t published yet—you’ll see the images in your exported page. If you edit an existing page—a previously published page—you might not see all of the images in your exported page. This is because the new page references local versions of the images, and the existing page references images that are saved on your website.

To export a page:

1 Browse to the page you want to export, then click the Edit Page button in the toolbar. 2 Select File > Export.

The Export dialog box appears.

3 Select a location to save the exported file. 4 Enter a filename. 5 Click Save.

The exported file appears in the folder you selected.

Printing a page

You can browse to a page and print it, or you can print a page you are editing to check your changes.

To preview a page:

1 Select File > Print Preview.

The page appears in a browser window.

2 If you want to print the page, click Print. 3 Click Close to close the preview when you finish viewing it.

To print a page:

1 Select File > Print.

Note: In the Contribute browser you can also right-click, then select Print.

The Print dialog box appears.

2 Click Print or OK.

Your default printer prints the page.

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Adding Pages and Documents

With Macromedia Contribute you can add pages to your website. You can create a copy of a page, create a blank page, create a copy of a sample page, or create a page based on a template. After you create a page, you can change its properties, or even add keywords or a description for the page so that website visitors can use a search engine to find the page.

You can also add Microsoft Word or Excel documents to your website. You can either add the contents of the document to a page on your website, or you can create a link from a web page to the document.

Contribute makes the new page or document live on your website when you publish it (see “Publishing Your Page” on page 125).

This chapter contains the following sections:

• “Creating or copying a page on your website” on page 45

• “Setting page properties” on page 51

• “Adding keywords and a description for a page” on page 53

• “Adding Word and Excel documents to a website” on page 53

Creating or copying a page on your website

You can create or copy any of the following types of pages:

• Copy of Current Page

• Blank Web Page

• Sample Web Page

• Te m p l a te

Note: If your website administrator has restricted the types of new pages you can create, you won’t see all of these options when you create or copy a page (see your website administrator or “Setting permissions for new web pages” on page 177).

Tip: You can also add a Word or Excel document to your website (see “Adding Word and Excel documents to a website” on page 53).

Copying a page on your website

You can create a copy of the page you are currently viewing on your website. You must be viewing the page in the Contribute browser; you cannot create a copy of a page that is a draft in the Contribute editor. Also, you cannot copy a page from one website to another website.

Note: You cannot create a copy of a page that contains frames.

You m ust create the new page first, then link it later. You cannot create the copy and add a link to it at the same time.

Creating a blank web page

You can create a blank web page. There are two ways to add a blank page to your website:

• Create a new page and a link to the page at the same time. (Recommended)

For example, suppose you are updating your home page, and you want to add a link to a contact information page that you haven’t created yet. From the home page, you can insert a link and create the contact page at the same time.

• Create the new page first, then link it later.

For example, suppose you create a page for a new product. After you create the page, you can go to the Products Overview page, and add a link to the new product page.

Copying a sample web page

Contribute comes with built-in sample web pages that you can copy and use on your website. Use any of these pages as a starting point for your web page. Samples include a Meeting Note, Contact Page, Home Page, Favorite Links Page, and sample pages for text and images.

There are two ways you can copy a sample web page to your website:

• Create a new page and a link to the page at the same time. (Recommended)

• Create the new page first, then link it later.

For example, suppose you create a page for a new product. After you create the page, you can go to the Products Overview page, and add a link to the new product page.

Creating a page based on a template

You can create a new page based on a template. In Contribute there are two types of templates:

• A template created in Macromedia Dreamweaver (see Dreamweaver Help > Using

Dreamweaver). A Dreamweaver template is a template that a designer creates for you with editable and locked regions.

• A template that the website administrator for your website designated as a template. Your

website administrator can designate any page on your website as a template.

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Both types of templates enable you to create a copy of an existing template so that you can maintain a consistent look on your website, and give you a starting point for your new page. The only difference is that a Dreamweaver template has editable and locked regions (see “Working with pages based on Dreamweaver templates” on page 38), and a page designated as a template by your website administrator might not.

There are two ways you can add a page based on a template to your website:

• Create a new page and a link to the page at the same time. (Recommended)

• Create the new page first, then link it later.

For example, suppose you create a page for a new product. After you create the page, you can go to the Products Overview page, and add a link to the new product page.

Creating a new page and a link to the page

It’s a good idea to create a link to a new page when you create the new page. This way, you don’t have to remember to link to the page later, and you ensure that users will be able to navigate to your page when you publish it.

From an existing page, you can insert a link to a new page, which Contribute creates at the same time it inserts the link.

After you create your page, you can set page properties (see “Setting page properties” on page 51) or add search keywords and a description for the page (see “Adding keywords and a description for a page” on page 53).

To create a new page and a link:

1 Browse to an existing page where you want to insert a link to a new page, then click the Edit

Page button in the toolbar.

2 Do one of the following to indicate where the link will appear:

• Place the insertion point in the draft.

• Select text in the draft.

• Select an image in the draft.

3 Do one of the following to open the Insert Link dialog box:

• Click the Link button in the toolbar, then select Create New Page.

• Select Insert > Link > Create New Page.

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• Right-click, then select Insert Link.

The Insert Link dialog box appears.

4 Click the Create New Page button at the top of the dialog box, if it is not already selected. 5 Enter link text in the Link text text box, if you did not select text or an image in your draft.

This is the text a website visitor will click to go to the new page.

Note: This text box is not available if you selected text or an image in the draft.

6 If you have multiple websites, and want to create the new page in a website other than the

current one, select another website in the Create new page from section.

Note: If you don’t have permission to edit files in the folder you select, then Contribute saves the new page in the first folder you can edit for that website. If you cannot edit any folders in the website, then you cannot create a new page for that website.

7 In the Create new page from section, select the type of page you want to create:

• Select Blank Web Page to create a blank page.

• Select a page in the Sample Web Pages folder to create a copy of a built-in sample page

provided with Contribute.

• Select a page in the Tem p l a t e s folder to create a new page based on a Dreamweaver template,

or based on a page within your website that the website administrator designated as a template. When you select a page type, a preview and a description appear.

Note: If your website administrator has restricted the types of new pages that you can create, or you do not have permission to edit this website, you won’t see all of these options (see your website administrator or “Setting permissions for new web pages” on page 177).

8 Enter a title for the new page in the New Page title text box.

This title appears in the browser title bar when a website visitor views the page; it does not appear on the page itself.

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9 Click the Advanced button to expand the dialog box, then set the advanced options as desired.

Note: For information about the advanced settings, see “Setting the advanced linking options” on page 110.

10 Click OK.

Contribute adds the link to the draft, and then opens the new page in the Contribute editor. To return to the draft where you added the link, click the draft title in the Pages panel.

Note: Contribute creates the new page in the same folder as the page that links to it (unless you selected another website in Step 6). When you publish your draft, Contribute also publishes the new page; you can change its folder location then if you need to.

Creating a new page without linking to it

You might want to create your new page and add content before you create the link to it. If so, remember to add a link to the page before you publish; otherwise, website visitors will not be able to navigate to the page.

Note: It’s a good idea to create the new page and the link at the same time (see “Creating a new page and a link to the page” on page 47).

After you create your page, you can set page properties (see “Setting page properties” on page 51) or add keywords and a description for the page (see “Adding keywords and a description for a page” on page 53).

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To create a new page:

1 In the Contribute browser, click the New Page button in the toolbar or, in the browser or

editor, select File > New Page. The New Page dialog box opens.

2 If you have multiple websites, and want to create the new page in a website other than the

current one, select another website in the Create new page from section.

3 In the Create new page from section, select the type of page you want to create:

• Select Blank Web Page to create a blank page.

• Select Copy of Current Page to create a copy of the page on your website that you are currently

viewing.

Note: You cannot create a copy of the current page if the page contains frames or if the page is a draft in the Contribute editor. You cannot copy a page from one website to another website.

• Select a page in the Sample Web Pages folder to create a copy of a built-in sample page

provided with Contribute.

• Select a page in the Tem p l a t e s folder to create a new page based on a Dreamweaver template,

or based on a page within your website that the website administrator designated as a template. When you select a page type, a preview and description appear.

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Note: If your website administrator has restricted the types of new pages that you can create, or you do not have permission to edit this website, then you won’t see all of these options when you create a page (see your website administrator or “Setting permissions for new web pages” on page 177).

4 Click the Refresh Templates button to update your list of templates, if necessary. 5 Enter a page title in the Page title text box.

This title appears in the browser title bar when a website visitor views the page; it does not appear on the page itself.

6 Click OK.

The new page opens in Contribute, ready for you to add content. Be sure to add a link to your new page before you publish it (see “Creating text and image links” on page 101

Note: Contribute creates the new page in the same folder as the page you were viewing when you created the page (unless you selected another website in Step 2). You can change the folder location when you publish the new page, if you need to.

Setting page properties

You can change the following basic page properties: page title, margins, color (for the background, text, and links), background image, and document encoding method.

Note: If you are editing a draft based on a template, or if you are restricted to text-only editing by your website administrator, then you can only change the page title. For more information, contact your website administrator or see “Setting page editing and paragraph permissions” on page 173.

To set page properties:

1 Browse to the page you want to edit properties for, then click the Edit Page button in the

toolbar.

2 Click the Page Properties button in the toolbar or select Format > Page Properties.

The Page Properties dialog box appears.

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3 Make changes to any of the following options:

• Title specifies the page title that appears in the title bar of the website visitor’s browser; the title

does not appear on the page itself. Giving a page a title is not the same as giving it a filename. For information about filenames,

see “Publishing a page to your website” on page 127.

• Background image enables you to browse to select a background image for the page.

Click the Browse button, then select Images on My Computer or Images on Website, to select an image.

• Left margin, To p m ar g in , Right margin, and Bottom margin determine the size of page

margins. If you do not want margins on the page, enter 0 for each margin.

Tip: Margins are measured in pixels; there are approximately 72 pixels per inch.

• Background color sets the background color of the page. If you also select a background image

for the page, website visitors will not see the background color (unless the image is transparent).

• Tex t co l or defines a color for text on the page.

• Document encoding specifies the encoding used for characters on the page. Select Wes te rn for

English and Western European languages. Additional options include Central European, Cyrillic, Greek, Icelandic, Japanese, Traditional

Chinese, Simplified Chinese, and Korean. If an option for the encoding you want is not available, select Other to create a page with the encoding your operating system is using. All Asian languages use double-byte encoding.

Note: Only click the Reload button if Contribute opened the page for editing with the wrong encoding. Select the correct encoding for the page, then click Reload to reload the last saved version of the page with the correct encoding.

• Link color defines a default color for links on the page.

• Active links defines a default color for links as a user clicks the link.

• Visited links defines a default color for links to pages that a website visitor has viewed.

4 Click Apply to see changes without closing the dialog box or click OK to apply changes and

close the dialog box.

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Adding keywords and a description for a page

You can associate keywords and a description with your web page. Adding keywords can enable visitors to type those words in a search engine and find the page.

To add or change keywords and a description for a page:

1 Browse to the page you want to add keywords and a description for, then click the Edit Page

button in the toolbar.

2 Select Format > Keywords and Description.

The Page Keywords and Description dialog box appears.

3 Enter or change keywords in the Keywords pane.

Separate each keyword with a single space (for example, meeting minutes planning committee holiday party).

4 Enter or change the page description in the Description pane. 5 Click OK.

Adding Word and Excel documents to a website

With Contribute you can easily add Microsoft Word and Microsoft Excel documents or content to your website.

For example, suppose you have a Word document with a table that contains contact information for all of your sales representatives in North America. You don’t have to recreate the table on your web page—you can use Contribute to add it to your website.

There are two ways to add Word or Excel content to a web page:

• Add the contents of a Word or Excel document to a new or existing web page (recommended

for smaller documents, under 300K when converted to HTML)

• Insert a link to Word or Excel document on an existing web page (recommended for larger

documents, over 300K when converted to HTML)

Tip: You can set a user preference so that Contribute will always either add the contents of the document or insert a link to the document when you add a Word or Excel document. For more information, see “Setting general preferences” on page 29.

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Adding Word or Excel content to a page

You can add the contents of a Word or Excel document to a new or existing web page.

Note: The file size, after Contribute converts it to HTML, must be less than 300K.

When you add content to a page, Contribute converts the content to HTML and copies it to your web page. You can edit the content in Contribute; changes you make to the original file on your computer will not appear on your website.

Note: If you use Microsoft Office 97, you cannot add the contents of a Word or Excel document; you must insert a link to the document. For information, see “Inserting a link to a Word or Excel document” on page 54.

To add the contents of a Word or Excel document to a new or existing web page:

1 Do one of the following to select the page where you want the content to appear:

• Browse to an existing web page, click the Edit Page button, then place the insertion point in

the draft where you want to add the content.

• Create a new page (see “Creating or copying a page on your website” on page 45).

2 Do one of the following to select the file:

• Drag the file from its current location to your Contribute draft where you want the content to

appear. If the Insert Microsoft Word or Excel Document dialog box appears, click Insert the contents of the document into this page, then click OK.

• Select Insert > Microsoft Word Document or Insert > Microsoft Excel Document. In the

Open dialog box, browse to the file you want to add, then click Open. The contents of the Word or Excel document appears in your draft.

Inserting a link to a Word or Excel document

You can insert a link to a Microsoft Word or Excel document in an existing page. When you publish the page with the link, Contribute copies the Word or Excel document into

your website, and then links to that copy (not to the original file on your computer).

Note: To edit content in the linked page after you publish, see “Editing content in an external application” on page

42. Changes you make to the original file will not appear on your website.

To create a link to a Word or Excel document:

1 Browse to an existing page where you want the link to appear, then click the Edit Page button

in the toolbar.

2 Do one of the following to select the file:

• Drag the file from its current location to your Contribute draft where you want the link to

appear. If the Insert Microsoft Word or Excel Document dialog box appears, click Create a link to the document, then click OK.

Note: The link text will be the name of the file you link to. To change link text after you create the link, see “Changing link text and destination” on page 115.

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• Place the insertion point in your draft where you want the link to appear, or select text or an

image on the draft, then click the Link button in the toolbar and select File on My Computer. Enter link text, browse to the file you want to link to, then click OK.

A link to the Word or Excel document appears in your draft.

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CHAPTER 6

Working with Text

Macromedia Contribute enables you to add and format text, much like a basic word processor. You’ll find a few differences in working with text in Contribute and a word processing program, such as Microsoft Word, because Contribute formats your text using HTML behind the scenes.

This chapter contains the following sections:

• “Adding text to a web page” on page 57

• “Formatting text” on page 60

• “Creating lists” on page 65

• “Checking spelling” on page 69

• “Finding and replacing text” on page 70

For information about working with text in tables, see Chapter 8, “Working with Tables,” on page 81. For information about aligning text around images, see Chapter 7, “Working with Images and Graphical Elements,” on page 71. For information about editing link text, see “Working with Links” on page 101.

Adding text to a web page

You can add text to a web page by typing the text, by copying and pasting text, or by dragging text from another application to your Contribute draft.

Note: You can also add the entire contents of a Microsoft Word or Excel document to a web page. For more information, see “Adding Word and Excel documents to a website” on page 53.

Tip: Your website administrator can determine the amount of space that pressing Enter adds between paragraphs. For more information, talk to your administrator or see “Setting page editing and paragraph permissions” on page 173.

To add the current date to your page, see “Adding the current date to a page” on page 58; to add special characters to a page, see “Adding special characters to a page” on page 59.

To add text to a draft, do one of the following:

• Place the insertion point in the draft, then type text directly into your draft.

• Select text in another application, then select Edit > Copy. Place the insertion point in your

Contribute draft, then select Edit > Paste.

Tip: Leave Microsoft Excel running when you copy and paste Excel content to Contribute so that the pasted content retains its formatting.

• Drag text from another application to your Contribute draft.

Note: Contribute might preserve text formatting applied in the other application.

Adding the current date to a page

You can add the current date to a page. The date can also include the day of the week and the time.

To add the date to a draft:

1 Place the insertion point in your draft where you want the date to appear. 2 Select Insert > Date.

The Insert Date dialog box appears.

3 In the Day format pop-up menu, select the format in which you want the day of the week

to appear. Select No Day if you do not want to include the day in the date.

4 In the Date format pop-up menu, select the format in which you want the date to appear. 5 In the Time format pop-up menu, select standard or military time.

Select No Time if you do not want to include the time with the date.

6 Select Update automatically on save if you want Contribute to update the date with the

current date each time the draft is saved.

7 Click OK.

Contribute adds the current date to your draft.

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Adding special characters to a page

You can add special characters, such as a copyright symbol or a pound sign, to your page.

Note: You can only add special characters to pages that use Western (Latin 1) encoding. For more information about setting page encoding, see “Setting page properties” on page 51.

To add a special character to a draft:

1 Place the insertion point in your draft where you want the character to appear. 2 Do one of the following:

• Select Insert > Special Characters, then select a character from the pop-up menu.

• Select Insert > Special Characters, then select Other. In the Insert Other Character dialog box,

click the character you want to insert, then click OK.

The character appears in your draft.

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Formatting text

Contribute enables you to format text—characters and entire paragraphs—quickly and easily. You can use menu options or use the toolbar to change text with one click.

Align left

Style menu

Font menu

Font size menu

Center

Align right

Justify

Text color

Highlight color

Italic

Bold

Numbered list

Note: If your website administrator has restricted editing to text only, not all of the formatting options are available. Also, options might be disabled if a text selection has a CSS style applied.

Indent

Outdent

Bulleted list

The section covers the following topics:

• “Changing text font and size” on page 60

• “Changing text style” on page 62

• “Changing text color” on page 63

• “Applying styles to text” on page 63

• “Changing text alignment” on page 64

• “Indenting text” on page 64

Changing text font and size

You can change the appearance of text by changing its font or size. Select a font or size from the available options; you cannot enter a custom size.

The Contribute font list contains fonts that most browsers are capable of rendering. It’s good web design practice to use fonts that will be available to most of your website visitors.

Each font in the list actually represents a font combination list. To edit your list of available fonts, see “Editing the font list” on page 61.

To change text size:

1 In your draft, select the text you want to change. 2 Do one of the following:

• Select a size from the Font Size pop-up menu in the toolbar.

• Right-click, select Size, then select a size from the pop-up menu.

Note: This option is not available if you are working in a table.

• Select Format > Size, then select a size from the pop-up menu.

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To change text font:

1 In your draft, select the text you want to change 2 Do one of the following:

• Select a font from the Font pop-up menu in the toolbar.

• Right-click, select Font, then select a font from the pop-up menu.

Note: This option is not available if you are working in a table.

• Select Format > Font, then select a font from the pop-up menu.

Editing the font list

Font combinations in the Contribute font list determine how a browser displays text in your web page. Each font you see in the Font menu represents the first font in that font combination. You can edit the font combinations in Contribute.

A browser uses the first font in a font combination that is installed on the website visitor’s computer; if none of the fonts in the combination are installed, the browser displays the text as specified by the visitor’s browser preferences.

To edit the font list:

1 In your draft, select Format > Font > Edit Font List, or select Edit Font List from the Style

pop-up menu in the toolbar. The Edit Font List dialog box appears.

2 Select a font combination in the Font list section.

The fonts in the selected combination appear in the Chosen fonts section. The Available fonts section lists fonts that are installed on your computer.

3 Choose from the following options:

• To add or remove a font combination, click the Plus (+) and Minus (–) buttons above the Font

list.

• To move a font combination up or down in the list, click the arrow buttons above the Font list.

• To add or remove fonts from a font combination, click the arrows button (<< or >>) between

the Chosen fonts and the Available fonts.

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• To add a font that is not installed on your system, type the font name in the text field below

the Available fonts, then click the add arrows << button to add it to the combination. Adding a font that is not installed on your computer is useful, for example, for specifying a

Windows-only font when you are developing pages on a Macintosh.

4 Click OK when you finish editing the font list.

Changing text style

You can change text style to bold, italic, or underlined. Other text styles include strikethrough, emphasis, strong, and fixed width.

Note: Emphasis and Strong apply the same style as Italic and Bold, but use different HTML tags. Your website administrator determines which tag Contribute actually inserts.

To make text bold, italic, or underlined:

1 In your draft, select the text you want to change. 2 Do one of the following:

• Click the Bold or Italic button in the toolbar.

• Right-click, then select Bold, Italic, or Underline.

Note: This option is not available if you are working in a table.

• Select Format > Bold, Format > Italic, or Format > Underline.

Tip: It is not good practice to use underline in web pages because website visitors might mistake underlined text for link text. You should use a style other than underline if you need to emphasize text.

To make text strikethrough, emphasized, strong, or fixed width:

1 In your draft, select the text you want to change. 2 Do one of the following:

• Right-click, select Other, then select one of the options from the pop-up menu.

Note: This option is not available if you are working in a table.

• Select Format > Other, then select one of the options from the pop-up menu.

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Changing text color

You can change the color of text or you can highlight text.

To change text color:

1 In your draft, select the text you want to change. 2 Do one of the following:

• Click the Tex t C olo r button in the toolbar.

• Right click, select Color from the pop-up menu.

Note: This option is not available if you are working in a table.

• Select Format > Text Color.

The color selector or the Text C ol o r dialog box appears.

3 Do one of the following:

• If you clicked the Te x t Co lo r button, select a color, and the color selector closes.

• If you selected Format > Text Color or right-clicked and used the context menu, select a color,

then click OK to close the dialog box. The text color changes in your draft.

To highlight text:

1 In your draft, select the text you want to highlight. 2 Click the Highlight button in the toolbar or select Format > Highlight Color.

The color selector or the Highlight Color dialog box appears.

3 Do one of the following:

• If you clicked the Highlight Color button, select a color, and the color selector closes.

• If you selected Format > Highlight Color, select a color, then click OK to close the dialog box.

The text is highlighted in your draft.

Applying styles to text

Contribute has a few built-in HTML styles in the Styles menu that enable you to apply a paragraph or heading style to your text. For example, you might apply a preset heading style to text to differentiate it from other content.

Note: You will not see HTML styles if your website administrator has disabled them.

In addition to the Contribute styles, you might see style options, called CSS styles, that your website administrator or designer added. If these styles are available, you should use them instead of the built-in styles provided by Contribute.

Note: You cannot attach a CSS style sheet to a page in Contribute to add more styles; use Macromedia Dreamweaver to attach a style sheet. To enable or disable CSS styles in Contribute, talk to your website administrator or see “Setting style and font permissions” on page 175.

When you press Enter after text that has a style applied, the next line of text applies the same style as the previous line, unless it is a heading style. When you press Enter after a heading, the next line of text is paragraph style.

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To change the text style:

1 In your draft, select the text you want to change or place the insertion point within the text. 2 Do one of the following:

• Select a style from the Style pop-up menu in the toolbar.

• Select Format > Style, then select a style from the pop-up menu.

The text you selected, or the entire paragraph where the insertion point is, changes to the new style.

Note: If you select a built-in heading style, then the entire paragraph changes to that style, even if you selected specific text in the paragraph.

To clear the current text style:

1 In your draft, select the text you want to change, or place the insertion point within the text. 2 Select Normal from the Styles pop-up menu in the toolbar.

Note: You can also select Format > Style, then select Remove Paragraph Breaks. This option clears the style and removes any paragraph tags around the selection.

Changing text alignment

You can choose any of four text alignment options: Left, Center, Right, and Justify.

To change text alignment:

1 In your draft, select the text you want to change or place the insertion point within the text.

Note: Contribute applies alignment to the entire paragraph, even if you select specific text in the paragraph.

2 Do one of the following:

• Click one of the alignment buttons in the toolbar.

• Select Format > Align, then select an alignment from the pop-up menu.

The text alignment changes in your draft.

Indenting text

In Contribute you can use the toolbar to indent or outdent text. You can indent or outdent text multiple times to create more or less space at the beginning of the text. This feature indents or outdents the entire paragraph—not just the first line of the paragraph.

To indent or outdent text:

1 In your draft, select the text you want to change or place the insertion point within the text. 2 Do one of the following:

• Click the Indent or Outdent button in the toolbar.

• Select Format > Indent or Format > Outdent.

The text indention changes in your draft.

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Creating lists

You can create numbered lists, bulleted lists, and definition lists in Contribute. You can also create sublists within your lists.

This section covers the following topics:

• “Creating numbered lists” on page 65

• “Creating bulleted lists” on page 65

• “Creating definition lists” on page 66

• “Creating sublists” on page 67

• “Setting List property options” on page 68

Creating numbered lists

You can use numbered lists to organize information that needs to be in order. You can apply numbering as you create the list, or you can add numbering to an existing list.

To create a numbered list:

1 Place the insertion point in your draft where you want to add the list, then do one of the

following:

• Click the Numbered List button in the toolbar.

• Select Format > List > Numbered List.

2 Type the first list item. 3 Press Enter to type another item, then repeat for each item. 4 When you finish typing the list, do one of the following to turn off numbering:

• Press Enter twice.

• Press Enter, then click the Numbered List button in the toolbar.

To create a numbered list from existing text:

1 In your draft, select multiple lines of existing text. 2 Do one of the following:

• Click the Numbered List button in the toolbar.

• Select Format > List > Numbered List.

Creating bulleted lists

Use bulleted lists to organize information that does not need to be in order. You can apply bullets as you create the list, or you can add bullets to an existing list.

To create a bulleted list:

1 Place the insertion point in your draft where you want to add the list, then do one of the

following:

• Click the Bulleted List button in the toolbar.

• Select Format > List > Bulleted List.

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2 Type the first list item. 3 Press Enter to type another item, then repeat for each item. 4 When you finish typing the list, do one of the following to turn off the bullets:

• Press Enter twice.

• Press Enter, then click the Bulleted List button in the toolbar.

To create a bulleted list from existing text:

1 In your draft, select multiple lines of existing text. 2 Do one of the following:

• Click the Bulleted List button in the toolbar.

• Select Format > List > Bulleted List.

Creating definition lists

A definition list is a series of items, each with an indented sub-item.

To create a definition list:

1 Place the insertion point in your draft where you want to create the list. 2 Select Format > List > Definition List. 3 Type the first list item. 4 Press Enter to type the indented definition. 5 Press Enter to type the next list item, then repeat as necessary. 6 When you finish typing the list, do one of the following to turn off the indenting:

• Press Enter twice.

• Press Enter, then select Format > List > Definition List.

To create a definition list from existing text:

1 In your draft, select multiple lines of existing text. 2 Select Format > List > Bulleted List.

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Creating sublists

You can change the level of a numbered or bulleted list item to create a nested list. For example, you might have a bulleted list where one of the bullets has a sublist of bullets.

The nested list does not have to be the same type as the parent list; you can have a numbered list with a nested bulleted list. You can have multiple nested lists within your list.

To create a sublist:

1 In your draft, place the insertion point at the end of the line within an existing list where you

want to create the sublist.

2 Press Enter. 3 Do one of the following:

• Click the Indent button in the toolbar.

• Press Tab.

Note: This option is not available for template-based pages or in tables.

• Select Format > Indent.

The number or bullet indents for the new line.

Note: If you have a bulleted list, the bullet image changes to indicate that it is a sub-bullet.

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4 If you want the sublist to be a different type of list than the parent list, click the Numbered

List or Bulleted List button in the toolbar as appropriate.

5 Type the list item, then press Enter to enter more items in the sublist. 6 To leave the sublist, press Enter twice or click the Outdent button in the toolbar.

Setting List property options

You can change the appearance of an entire list, or change the look of an individual list item in a bulleted or numbered list.

To set list properties for an entire list:

1 In your draft, place the insertion point in the list you want to change.

Note: If you select an entire list, the list properties option isn’t available.

2 Do one of the following:

• Select Format > List > Properties.

• Right-click, select List, then select Properties.

Note: This option is not available for template-based pages or in tables.

The List Properties dialog box appears.

3 In the List properties section, change options for the list:

• List type specifies whether the list is a bulleted, numbered, directory, or menu list.

Depending on the list type you select, different options are enabled or disabled in the dialog box.

• Style determines the style of numbers or bullets used for a numbered or bulleted list.

All items in the list will have this style unless you specify a new style for individual items in the list.

• Start at number sets the value for the first item in a numbered list.

4 Click OK.

Contribute applies your changes to the list. The new style automatically applies to additional items you add to the list.

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To set list properties for a list item:

1 In your draft, place the insertion point in the bulleted or numbered list item you want to change.

Note: If you select multiple items, the list properties option isn’t available.

2 Do one of the following:

• Select Format > List > Properties.

• Right-click, select List, then select Properties.

Note: This option is not available for template-based pages or in tables.

The List Properties dialog box appears.

3 In the Selected item section, change options for the list:

• Style specifies a style for the selected list item.

Options in the pop-up menu are specific to the list type, either bulleted or numbered.

• Reset to number sets a specific number from which to number list item entries.

4 Click OK.

Contribute applies your changes to the list item.

Checking spelling

It’s a good idea to use the Check Spelling command to check the spelling in your draft after you add or edit text.

To check and correct spelling in your draft:

1 Click the Check Spelling button in the toolbar or select Format > Check Spelling.

If Contribute encounters an unrecognized word, the Check Spelling dialog box appears.

2 Select the appropriate option based on how you want Contribute to handle the discrepancy:

• Click Add to Personal to add the unrecognized word to your personal dictionary. You can add

any word, and Contribute will ignore it in the future.

• Click Ignore to ignore this instance of the unrecognized word.

• Click Change to replace this instance of the unrecognized word with text that you type in the

Change to text box or with the selection in the Suggestions list.

• Click Ignore All to ignore all instances of the unrecognized word.

• Click Change All to replace all instances of the unrecognized word in the same manner.

3 When you finish checking spelling, click the Close button in the Check Spelling dialog box, or

click OK in the Spelling Check Completed message box.

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Finding and replacing text

You can search the draft you’re editing for specific text. You can also search for and replace text in drafts.

Note: You can search for text in a page in the browser, but the Search and Replace dialog box depends on your default web browser.

To search for text:

1 In your draft, select Edit > Find.

The Find and Replace dialog box appears.

2 In the Search for text box, type the text you want to find. 3 Select Match case to limit the search to text that exactly matches the case of the text you type in

the Search for text box. For example, if you type the brown derby in the text box, you will not find The Brown Derby.

4 Click Find next, then repeat until you finish searching the draft. 5 When you finish, click Close.

To search and replace text:

1 In your draft, select Edit > Find.

The Find and Replace dialog box appears.

2 In the Search for text box, type the text you want to find. 3 In the Replace with text box, type the replacement text. 4 Select the Match case option to limit the search to text that exactly matches the case of the text

you type in the Search for text box. For example, if you type the brown derby in the text box, you will not find The Brown Derby.

5 Click Find Next. 6 For each occurrence, select one of the following:

• Replace replaces the current instance with the replacement text.

• Replace All replaces all instances with the replacement text.

• Find Next finds the next instance without changing the current instance.

7 When you finish, click Close.

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CHAPTER 7

Working with Images and Graphical Elements

Macromedia Contribute makes it easy for you to edit, add, or delete images on your web pages. You can also add Macromedia Flash movies to a page.

This chapter contains the following sections:

• “Adding an image to a page” on page 71

• “Editing an image” on page 75

• “Resizing an image” on page 76

• “Moving and aligning images” on page 76

• “Inserting Flash movies”

• “Adding and deleting a horizontal rule” on page 78

For information about making an image a hyperlink (also know as a link), see “Creating text and image links” on page 101.

Adding an image to a page

There are three ways you can add an image to your web page:

• Use the Insert menu or the Image button to add an image from your computer or website.

• Drag an image from another source to your Contribute draft.

• Copy and paste an image from another source on your Contribute draft.

For more information about inserting images, see “About inserting images” on page 72. For information about changing image properties, such as alignment, see “Changing image properties” on page 74. For information about editing an image, see “Editing an image” on page 75.

About inserting images

You can add images from several different sources, including your computer, website, e-mail, Microsoft Internet Explorer web browser, or another application, such as Microsoft Word or Excel.

Note: Images that you add to your page should be in one of the following web-ready formats: JPG, GIF, or PNG (16). If the image you want to add is in another format, you can use an image editing tool, such as Macromedia Fireworks, to convert the image to a web-ready format.

When you add an image to a page, it’s a good idea to add descriptive text about the image so that the image is accessible to people with disabilities. Your website administrator can enforce the image accessibility option so that a dialog box prompts you for an image description whenever you add an image.

Note: For more information, talk to your website administrator or see “Setting page editing and paragraph permissions” on page 173.

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

You can use the Insert menu or Image button in the toolbar to add an image from your computer or website to a page.

You can add images from other sources by dragging them to the page (see “Dragging images to a page” on page 73) or copying and pasting them on the page (see “Copying and pasting images” on page 73).

To add an image using the Insert menu or Image button:

1 Place the insertion point in your draft where you want the image to appear. 2 Do one of the following:

• Click the Image button in the toolbar.

• Select Insert > Image.

3 Select From My Computer or From Website from the pop-up menu.

The Select Image or Choose Image from Website dialog box appears.

4 Browse to and select the image, then click the Select or OK button. 5 If the Image Description dialog box appears, enter text to describe the image for people with

disabilities or for people with their browsers set to display text only, then click OK. The image appears on your draft. If the image is from your computer, Contribute copies the image to an images folder on your

website when you publish the draft. You cannot edit the image in Contribute until you publish the draft. If the image is from your website, you can edit the image in Contribute before you publish. For more information, see “Editing an image” on page 75.

Tip: After you insert the image, select the image, then click the Image button and select either option from the pop- up menu to change image properties. For more information, see “Changing image properties” on page 74.

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Dragging images to a page

You can drag an image from another source to your Contribute page. You can also add images by using the Insert menu or Image button (see “Using the Insert menu

or Image button to add images to a page” on page 72) or by copying and pasting them on the page (see “Copying and pasting images” on page 73).

To add an image by dragging:

1 Reduce the size of the Contribute application window so that you can also see the application

that contains the image you plan to drag.

2 In the other application, select the image. 3 Drag the image to your Contribute draft where you want the image to appear.

Tip: You can’t drag an image from a web browser if the image has a link attached to it. Save the image to your computer first, then drag the image to your Contribute draft.

4 If the Image Description dialog box appears, enter text to describe the image for people with

disabilities or for people with their browsers set to display text only, then click OK. The image appears on your draft, and Contribute copies the image to an images folder on your

website, if it’s not already there. If the image is from your website, you can edit the image in Contribute before you publish the

draft. If the image is from another source, you cannot edit the image in Contribute until you publish. For more information, see “Editing an image” on page 75.

Copying and pasting images

You can copy an image from another source, then paste it on your Contribute page. You can also add images by using the Insert menu or Image button (see “Using the Insert menu

or Image button to add images to a page” on page 72) or by dragging them to the page (see “Dragging images to a page” on page 73).

To add an image by copying and pasting:

1 In the application that contains the image you want to copy, select the image. 2 Select Edit > Copy. 3 Place the insertion point in your Contribute draft where you want the image to appear. 4 Select Edit > Paste. 5 If the Image Description dialog box appears, enter text to describe the image for people with

disabilities or for people with their browsers set to display text only, then click OK. The image appears on your draft, and Contribute copies the image to an images folder on your

website, if it’s not already there. If the image is from your website, you can edit the image in Contribute before you publish the

draft. If the image is from another source, you cannot edit the image in Contribute until you publish. For more information, see “Editing an image” on page 75.

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Changing image properties

After you add an image to a page (see “Adding an image to a page” on page 71), you can change its properties. Image properties include image source, size, padding, alignment, border, and alternate text.

To change image properties:

1 In your draft, select the image you want to modify, then do one of the following:

• Double-click the image.

• Click the Image button in the toolbar, then select either option from the pop-up menu.

• Select Format > Image Properties.

• Right-click the image, then select Image Properties from the pop-up menu.

The Image Properties dialog box appears.

2 Make changes as necessary to the following options:

• Image file is the location of the image source file.

Click the Browse button, then select Images on My Computer or Images on Website, to change the image source.

• Width is the width of the image.

You can enter size in pixels or as a percentage of the original image size.

• Height is the height of the image.

You can enter size in pixels or as a percentage of the original image size.

• Reset size returns the image to its original height and width.

This option acts like an undo button for changes to image size.

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• Constrain proportions keeps the proportions of height and width constant.

For example, if you double the height with this option enabled, then Contribute also doubles the width.

Note: If possible, do not change the width and height of your image or you might reduce the quality of the image. If you must resize the image, it is a good idea to use an image editing program such as Fireworks.

• Horizontal padding is the amount of empty space, in pixels, on the right and left of the image.

The number you enter represents the amount of space on each side of the image. For example, if you select 4 pixels for Horizontal padding, then 4 pixels of empty space appears on the right of the image, and 4 pixels of space appears on the left of the image.

• Vertical padding is the amount of empty space on the top and bottom of the image.

The number you enter represents the amount of space above and below the image. For example, if you select 4 pixels for Vertical padding, then 4 pixels of empty space appears on top of the image, and 4 pixels of space appears below the image.

• Alignment refers to the location of the image on the page in relation to any text that appears

around the image. When you select an alignment option, a graphic indicates how the image will align in relation

to elements around the image.

• Border is the width, in pixels, of the border around the image.

• Description (ALT text) describes the image for people with disabilities or for people with their

browsers set to display text only.

3 Click OK.

Contribute applies your changes to the image.

Editing an image

You can use Contribute to launch an external image editing application. This enables you to edit images that you’ve added to your web pages. The image should be on a published page on your website or in one of your website folders.

Note: You should not edit an original image file on your computer for an image you’ve added to a web page; changes you make to the file will not appear on your website.

To edit an image in Contribute:

1 In the Contribute browser, do one of the following:

• Browse to the page with the image you want to edit, then click the Edit Page button. Select the

image, then select File > Edit Image or right-click the image and select Edit Image.

• Click the Choose button in the toolbar, then select the image you want to edit (it must be an

image that is published on your website) and close the dialog box. Contribute launches an external editing application.

Note: To change your default external image editor, see “Setting file editor preferences” on page 29.

2 If you are editing an image in Fireworks, click No in the Find Source dialog box to indicate

that you do not want to edit the source file for this image. By clicking No, you will edit the image for the website only.

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3 In the external application, make changes as necessary, then save your changes and close the

application.

Note: If you are editing in Fireworks, click the Done button in the editing window, then close the application.

4 In Contribute, click Publish to publish your changes to the website.

Note: If you need to make additional changes to the image before you publish, in Contribute click Launch to open the content in the external editor again.

The updated content appears in Contribute.

Resizing an image

You can change the size of an image by dragging the selection handles or by entering a specific height or width in the Image Properties dialog box.

To avoid distorting your image, you can constrain proportions when you resize an image. This means that you change the height and width of the image by the same percentage.

To change the size of an image in a draft, do one of the following:

• Select the image, then drag one of the selection handles to the desired image size.

Selection handles

Tip: Hold the Shift key, then drag the corner selection handle to constrain proportions so that the image is not distorted as you drag.

• Double-click the image, then change the height or width in the Image Properties dialog box.

Tip: Select Constrain proportions in the dialog box to maintain the image aspect ratio, so that the image is not distorted.

• Right-click the image, then select Image Properties (or Reset Size if you’ve previously changed

the image’s size) from the pop-up menu. Enter a new height and width in the Image Properties dialog box, then click OK.

Tip: Select Constrain proportions in the dialog box to maintain the image aspect ratio, so that the image is not distorted.

Moving and aligning images

You can easily move an image to a new location on a web page. If there is text (or other elements) around the image, you can change how the image aligns with surrounding elements.

To move an image on a draft, do one of the following:

• Drag the image to a new location.

• Select the image, then copy (or cut) and paste the image in a new location.

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To change alignment of an image on a draft, do one of the following:

• Double-click the image, then select an alignment from the Alignment pop-up menu in the

Image Properties dialog box.

• Right-click the image, then select an alignment from the Alignment pop-up menu.

Note: For more information about alignment options, see “Changing image properties” on page 74.

Contribute aligns the image in relation to surrounding elements, such as text.

Inserting Flash movies

You can insert Macromedia Flash movies in your web pages.

To insert a Flash movie:

1 Place the insertion point in your draft where you want the movie to appear. 2 Select Insert > Flash Movie.

The Select File dialog box appears.

3 In the Files of type pop-up menu, select All Files. 4 Navigate to the Flash movie file (.swf) you want to insert, then click Select.

The Flash movie object appears in your draft.

Setting Flash movie properties

You can set properties for Flash movies that you insert in your web pages.

To set Flash movie properties:

1 In your draft, select the Flash movie object, then do one of the following:

• Double-click the object.

• Right-click, then select Flash Movie Properties from the pop-up menu.

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• Select Format > Flash Movie Properties.

The Flash Movie Properties dialog box appears.

2 Select Start playing the movie when the page loads if you want the Flash movie to

automatically begin playing when the page appears in a website visitor’s browser.

3 Select Loop the movie continuously if you want the Flash movie to automatically start playing

again each time it ends.

4 Click OK.

Adding and deleting a horizontal rule

You can add horizontal rules to your pages to help organize content. For example, you can visually separate text and other elements into topic areas with one or more rules.

For information about changing the look of a horizontal rule, see “Changing properties for a horizontal rule” on page 79.

To insert a horizontal rule:

1 Place the insertion point in your draft where you want the horizontal rule to appear. 2 Select Insert > Horizontal Rule.

Contribute inserts the horizontal rule. Content before the insertion point appears above the line, and content after the insertion point appears below the line.

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To delete a horizontal rule:

1 In your draft, click the horizontal rule to select it. 2 Press Delete.

Changing properties for a horizontal rule

You can customize the height, width, and shading applied to a horizontal rule on a page. By default, a horizontal rule in Contribute is 1 pixel high, expands to the width of the page or table cell in which it is inserted, and has a small drop shadow (or shading) applied.

For information about adding and deleting horizontal rules to a page, see “Adding and deleting a horizontal rule” on page 78.

To set horizontal rule properties:

1 In your draft, click the horizontal rule to select it, then do one of the following:

• Right-click the horizontal rule, then select Properties.

• Select Format > Horizontal Rule Properties.

The Horizontal Rule Properties dialog box appears.

2 Change any of the following options:

• Width indicates the length of the line.

To set a specific line width for a horizontal rule, enter a number in the Width text box, then select Pixels. To set a line width that expands or contracts depending on the width of a viewer’s browser window, enter a number between 1 and 100 in the Width text box, then select Percentage.

• Height indicates the height of the line.

• Use Outline Shading indicates that the line appears as an outline, not a solid line.

3 Click OK.

Contribute changes the horizontal rule properties.

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CHAPTER 8

Working with Tables

A table is a powerful tool for presenting tabular data. For example, you might add a table to a web page that lists all your sales reps in one column, with their contact information in another column.

In Macromedia Contribute, you can add text and images to table cells the same way that you add text and images to a page (see “Working with Text” on page 57 and “Working with Images and Graphical Elements” on page 71). After you create a table you can easily modify both its appearance and structure.

This chapter contains the following sections:

• “Inserting a table on a page” on page 81

• “Selecting table elements” on page 83

• “Resizing tables, rows, and columns” on page 85

• “Aligning tables” on page 86

• “Cutting and copying table cells” on page 87

• “Adding, deleting, and merging table rows and columns” on page 89

• “Modifying table appearance” on page 91

• “Sorting tabular data” on page 98

Inserting a table on a page

You can insert a table anywhere on a page, including within another table (see “Inserting a table within a table” on page 83). You can quickly insert a standard table with three rows and three columns, or you can modify options to insert a custom table.

When you insert an table, it’s a good idea to apply headings, if you need them. Using headings makes the table more accessible to people with disabilities. Do not create headings for rows or columns by making text in the first row or column bold and centered. Screen readers only read headings that you apply as a table property.

Tip: After you insert a table and start adding content to it, use the Preview in Browser feature to see exactly how the table will render in website visitors’ browsers (see “Previewing a page in your default browser” on page 125).

To insert a table:

1 Place the insertion point in your draft where you want the table to appear. 2 Do one of the following to open the Insert Table dialog box:

• Click the Insert Table button in the toolbar.

• Select Insert > Table.

• Select Table > Insert > Table.

The Insert Table dialog box appears.

3 Enter the number of rows and columns you want, or accept the defaults for a table with three

rows and three columns.

4 Change table properties as desired:

• Tab l e w i dt h indicates how wide the table is.

Select Default width for a table with columns that resize as you add content. Select Specific width if you want to enter a number for a fixed table width. Use the pop-up menu to indicate whether the number you enter is in pixels, or is a percent of the page you want the table to be.

• Border thickness is the thickness of the border around the table and between cells.

Tip: Enter 0 if you do not want a table border.

• Cell padding indicates the amount of space, in pixels, between the edge of the table cell and

the content of the cell.

Note: If you do not enter a value, Contribute sets cell padding to the default value, which is 1 pixel.

• Cell spacing indicates the amount of space, in pixels, between each table cell.

Note: If you do not enter a value, Contribute sets cell spacing to the default value, which is 3 pixels.

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5 Click a button in the Header section to indicate whether you want a header; select from the

following options:

• None indicates no header.

• Left indicates a header column.

• To p indicates a header row.

• Both indicates a header column and a header row.

Tip: Screen readers read headings for rows or columns that have one of these header types applied; they do not read headings that you create by making text bold and centered.

6 Click OK.

The table appears in your draft.

Tip: After you insert the table, select it, then click the Table button again to change table properties. Also, see “Setting general preferences” on page 29 for information about a table rendering option which might improve performance when you’re editing large tables.

Inserting a table within a table

You can insert a table within an existing table on a page.

To insert a table within a table:

1 In your draft, place the insertion point in the table cell where you want the table to appear. 2 Do one of the following to open the Insert Table dialog box:

• Click the Insert Table button in the toolbar.

• Select Insert > Table.

• Select Table > Insert > Table.

The Insert Table dialog box appears.

3 Change options as necessary. 4 Click OK.

The table appears in the table cell where you placed the insertion point.

Selecting table elements

You can select an entire table, row, or column, or you can select a contiguous block of cells within a table:

• To select an entire table, row, or column, see “Selecting an entire table, row, or column” on

page 84.

• To select a cell, block of cells, or nonadjacent cells, see “Selecting a cell, block of cells, or

nonadjacent cells” on page 84.

After you’ve selected a table or cells, you can modify the appearance of the selection (see “Modifying table appearance” on page 91) or of the text contained in the selection (see “Cutting and copying table cells” on page 87).

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Selecting an entire table, row, or column

You might want to select an entire table, row, or column to copy and paste into another page (see “Cutting and copying table cells” on page 87) or to modify the background of all of the cells in the selection at once (see “Modifying table appearance” on page 91).

To select an entire table, do one of the following:

• Click the upper left corner of the table or click anywhere on the right or bottom edge.

• Click in a table cell, then select Table > Se lect Tab le .

Selection handles appear on the selected table’s lower and right edges.

To select rows or columns:

1 Position the pointer to point at the left edge of a row or the top edge of a column. 2 When the pointer changes to a selection arrow, click to select the row or column, or drag to

select multiple rows or columns.

Selecting a cell, block of cells, or nonadjacent cells

You might want to select a cell or group of cells to copy and paste into another page (see “Cutting and copying table cells” on page 87) or to modify the background of all of the cells in the selection at once (see “Modifying table appearance” on page 91).

When you select a block of cells, the block must form a rectangle. When you select multiple nonadjacent cells in a table, you can modify the properties of those cells, but you cannot copy or paste sets of nonadjacent cells.

To select a single cell, do one of the following:

• Click in the cell, then drag to select the cell.

• Click in the cell, then select Edit > Select All.

Tip: Select Edit > Select All again to select the entire table.

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To select a line or a rectangular block of cells, do one of the following:

• Drag from one cell to another cell.

• Click in one cell, then Shift-click another cell.

All of the cells within the linear or rectangular region defined by the two cells are selected.

To select nonadjacent cells:

• Control-click the cells, rows, or columns you want to select.

Note: If each cell, row, or column you Control-click isn’t already selected, it’s added to the selection. If it is already selected, it’s removed from the selection.

Resizing tables, rows, and columns

You can resize an entire table or individual rows and columns. When you resize an entire table, all of the cells in the table resize proportionately.

To resize a table:

1 In your draft, select the table you want to resize (see “Selecting table elements” on page 83). 2 Do one of the following:

• To resize the table horizontally, drag the selection handle on the right.

• To resize the table vertically, drag the selection handle on the bottom.

• To resize in both dimensions, drag the selection handle at the lower right corner.

To resize a column’s width, do one of the following in your draft:

• Select the column, then drag the right border of the column.

• Select the column, then click the Ta b l e button in the toolbar.

In the Table Column Properties dialog box, change the number in the Column width text box, then select Pixels or Percent for the width, or select Fit to Contents to clear the set width so that columns resize to fit the content you add.

Note: If the column is not the rightmost column of the table, the adjacent column’s width also changes, keeping the same overall table width. If the column is the rightmost column, the entire table’s width changes, and all of the columns grow wider or narrow proportionately.

To resize a row’s height, do one of the following in your draft:

• Select the row, then drag the lower border of the row.

• Select the row, click the Tab le button in the toolbar.

In the Table Row Properties dialog box, change the number in the Row height text box, then select Pixels or Percent for the height, or select Fit to Contents to clear the set height so that rows resize to fit the content you add.

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Aligning tables

You can indicate how a table aligns on the web page in relation to elements, such as text or images, around it on the page.

You cannot select an alignment option when you create a table. You must insert the table (see “Inserting a table on a page” on page 81), then change the alignment option in table properties.

To change alignment for a table:

1 In your draft, select the table you want to change alignment for (see “Selecting table elements”

on page 83).

2 Do one of the following to open the Table Properties dialog box:

• Click the Ta bl e button in the toolbar.

• Right-click, then select Table Properties from the pop-up menu.

• Select Table > Table Properties.

The Table Properties dialog box appears.

3 Select an alignment option from the Table alignment pop-up menu:

• Default aligns the table to the left of the page, and does not flow text or images around the

table.

• Left aligns the table to the left side of the page, and flows text or images to the right of the

table.

• Center aligns the table in the center of the page.

• Right aligns the table to the right side of the page, and flows text or images to the left of the

table.

4 Click Apply to see changes without closing the dialog box, or click OK to apply changes and

close the dialog box. The table alignment changes in your draft.

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Cutting, copying, and pasting cells

You can cut, copy, or paste a single table cell or multiple cells at once, preserving the cells’ formatting (see “Cutting and copying table cells” on page 87). You can paste cells at the insertion point or in place of a selection in an existing table (see “Pasting table cells” on page 88).

The cells you select must be contiguous and in the shape of a rectangle. For example, the selection in this illustration is a rectangle of cells, so the cells can be cut or copied.

The selection in this illustration is not a rectangle, so the cells can’t be cut or copied.

Cutting and copying table cells

You can copy a single cell or multiple cells, then cut the cells, or just the cells’ content, from the table. You can copy a single cell or multiple cells, then paste the cells in the same table or in another table (see “Pasting table cells” on page 88).

To copy table cells, rows, or columns:

1 In your draft, select one or more cells, rows, or columns in the table (see “Selecting table

elements” on page 83).

2 Do one of the following:

• Select Edit > Copy.

• Right-click, then select Copy.

Contribute copies the selection to the Clipboard.

To cut table cells, rows, or columns:

1 In your draft, select one or more cells, rows, or columns in the table (see “Selecting table

elements” on page 83).

2 Do one of the following:

• Select Edit > Cut.

• Right-click, then select Cut.

Contribute cuts the selection from the table and copies it to the Clipboard.

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To remove a row or column from a table:

1 In your draft, select a row or column (see “Selecting table elements” on page 83). 2 Do one of the following:

• Select Table > Delete > Row or Table > Delete > Column.

• Press Delete.

Contribute removes the row or column from the table.

To remove cell content but leave the cells intact:

1 In your draft, select one or more cells.

Note: Do not select an entire row or column. If you do, then when you select Edit > Clear or press Delete, Contribute removes the entire row or column—not just their contents—from the table.

2 Select Edit > Clear or press Delete.

Contribute removes the contents of the cells you selected, but leaves the empty cells in the table.

Pasting table cells

You can copy cells (see “Cutting and copying table cells” on page 87), then paste them at the insertion point in a table or in place of a selection in an existing table.

To paste multiple table cells, the contents of the Clipboard must be compatible with the structure of the table or the selection in the table in which you paste the cells. For example, if you copy a block that is two cells by two cells, you must select a block that is the same size in which to paste the cells.

To paste table cells:

1 In your draft, do one of the following to indicate where you want to paste the cells:

• To replace existing cells with the cells you are pasting, select a set of existing cells with the same

layout as the cells you copied. For example, if you’ve copied or cut a three by two cell block, select another three by two cell

block to replace with the block you copied or cut.

• To paste a full row of cells above a particular cell, click in that cell.

• To paste a full column of cells to the left of a particular cell, click in that cell.

• To create a new table with the pasted cells, place the insertion point outside of the table.

Note: If you have less than a full row or column of cells in the Clipboard, and you click in a cell and then paste the cells from the Clipboard, the cell you clicked in and its neighbors (depending on its location in the table) might be replaced with the cells you are pasting.

2 Do one of the following:

• Select Edit > Paste.

• Right-click, then select Paste.

Contribute pastes the cells from the Clipboard.

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Adding, deleting, and merging table rows and columns

You can modify an existing table by adding or deleting rows or columns. You can also merge cells to accommodate data.

This section covers the following topics:

• “Adding rows and columns” on page 89

• “Deleting rows and columns” on page 90

• “Merging and splitting cells” on page 91

Adding rows and columns

You can add a single row or column (see “Adding a single row or column” on page 89), or you can add multiple rows or columns at the same time (see “Adding multiple rows or columns” on page 90).

Adding a single row or column

You can add a single row or column to a table. To add multiple rows or columns, see “Adding multiple rows or columns” on page 90.

To add a single row in a table:

1 In your draft, place the insertion point in a table cell, or select an entire row. 2 Do one of the following:

• Click the Insert Row button in the toolbar.

A new row appears below the insertion point or selection.

• Select Table > Insert > Insert Row Above or Table > Insert > Insert Row Below.

• Right-click, then select Insert Row Above or Insert Row Below.

To add a single column in a table:

1 In your draft, place the insertion point in a table cell, or select an entire column. 2 Do one of the following:

• Click the Insert Column button in the toolbar.

A new column appears to the right of the insertion point or selection.

• Select Table > Insert > Insert Column to the Left or Table > Insert > Insert Column to

the Right.

• Right-click, then select Insert Column to the Left or Insert Column to the Right.

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Adding multiple rows or columns

You can add multiple rows or columns to a table at the same time.

To add multiple rows or columns to a table:

1 In your draft, place the insertion point in a table cell. 2 Do one of the following:

• Select Table > Insert > Multiple Rows or Columns.

• Right-click, then select Insert Multiple Rows or Columns.

The Insert Rows or Columns dialog box appears.

3 Select a radio button to indicate whether to insert rows or columns. 4 Enter the number of rows or columns to insert. 5 Select whether to insert new rows above or below the insertion point in the table or new

columns to the left or right of the insertion point in the table.

Deleting rows and columns

You can delete a single row or column, or you can delete multiple rows or columns at the same time.

To delete rows or columns from a table in your draft, do one of the following:

• Select entire rows or columns, then press Delete or Backspace.

• Select entire rows or columns or place the insertion point in a single row or column, right-

click, then select Delete Row or Delete Column.

• Select entire rows or columns, then select Table > Delete > Row or Table > Delete > Column.

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Merging and splitting cells

You can merge any number of adjacent cells—as long as the entire selection is a line or a rectangle of cells—to produce a single cell that spans several columns or rows. You can split a cell into any number of rows or columns, regardless of whether it was previously merged.

To merge table cells:

1 In your draft, select the cells you want to merge.

Note: You must select at least two cells.

2 Select Table > Merge Cells or right-click, then select Merge Cells.

Contribute merges any content in the cells into the single cell.

To split table cells:

1 In your draft, place the insertion point in the cell you want to split.

Note: Contribute only splits one cell at a time, even if you select multiple cells.

2 Select Ta b le > Sp l it C e ll or right-click, then select Split Cell.

The Split Cell dialog box appears.

3 Select a radio button to indicate whether to split the cell into rows or columns. 4 Enter the number of new rows or columns in which to divide the cell. 5 Click OK.

Contribute splits the cell into multiple rows or columns.

Modifying table appearance

You can modify a table’s appearance by doing any of the following:

• Changing properties for an entire table (see “Modifying table properties” on page 92)

• Changing properties for individual cells, rows, or columns in a table (see “Modifying row or

column properties” on page 94 and “Modifying cell properties” on page 95)

Note: Before you start changing properties, it’s a good idea to understand how Contribute resolves formatting conflicts for cells, rows, and tables (see “About conflicts in table formatting” on page 92).

• Applying a preset design scheme to a table (see “Using a preset table format” on page 97)

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About conflicts in table formatting

When formatting tables, you can set properties for the entire table or for selected cells, rows, or columns in the table (see “Modifying table appearance” on page 91).

When a table property, such as background color or alignment, is set to one value for the entire table and another value for individual cells, cell formatting takes precedence over row formatting, which in turn takes precedence over table formatting.

The order of precedence for table formatting is as follows:

1 Cells 2 Rows 3 Ta b le

For example, if you set the background color for a single cell to blue, then set the background color of the entire table to yellow, the blue cell does not change to yellow because cell formatting takes precedence over table formatting.

Note: When you set properties for a column, Contribute changes the attributes of the td tag corresponding to each cell in the column.

Modifying table properties

You can modify alignment, width, border width and color, and background color for a selected table.

To modify table properties:

1 In your draft, select the table you want to modify (see “Selecting table elements” on page 83). 2 Do one of the following to open the Table Properties dialog box:

• Click the Ta bl e button in the toolbar.

• Right-click, then select Table Properties from the pop-up menu.

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• Select Table > Table Properties.

The Table Properties dialog box appears.

3 Make changes to any of the following options:

• Table alignment refers to the location of the table in relation to any elements (such as text or

images) that appear around the table. Select from the following options: Default aligns the table to the left side of the page, and does not flow text or images around

the table. Left aligns the table to the left side of the page, and flows text or images to the right of

the table.

Center aligns the table in the center of the page. Right aligns the table to the right side of the page, and flows text or images to the left of

the table.

• Table width specifies how wide the table is.

From the pop-up menu, select Percent to indicate table width as a percentage of the total browser window, or Pixel to indicate table width as a specific number of pixels (between 1 and 800).

Note: You can enter percentages that are greater than 100. For example, if you enter 150, then the table is one and a half times the size of the browser window. When the percentage is greater than 100, a scrollbar appears for the web page. You can enter a value up to 1000.

• Border thickness specifies how thick the border around the table and between the cells is.

Tip: Enter 0 if you do not want a table border.

• Cell padding indicates the amount of space, in pixels, between the edge of the table cell and

the contents of the cell.

Note: If you do not enter a value, Contribute sets cell padding to the default value, which is 1 pixel.

• Cell spacing indicates the amount of space, in pixels, between each table cell.

Note: If you do not enter a value, Contribute sets cell spacing to the default value, which is 3 pixels.

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• Border color indicates the color of the table border around the table and between cells.

Note: The border color does not show if the table’s border thickness is set to 0 for no border.

• Background color indicates the background color of all the cells in the table.

If you do not select a color, the default background is transparent. This means that the table background appears as white on a white page, green on a green page, and so on.

4 Click Apply to apply changes without closing the dialog box, or click OK to apply changes and

close the dialog box. Your table property changes appear in your draft.

Modifying row or column properties

You can modify horizontal and vertical alignment, background color, height or width, and text wrap for a selected row or column.

Note: To understand how Contribute resolves formatting conflicts for cells, rows, and tables, see “About conflicts in table formatting” on page 92.

To modify table row or column properties:

1 In your draft, select the row or column you want to modify (see “Selecting an entire table, row,

or column” on page 84).

2 Do one of the following to open the Table Properties dialog box:

• Click the Ta bl e button in the toolbar.

• Right-click, then select Table Properties from the pop-up menu.

• Select Table > Table Properties.

The Table Properties dialog box appears with the appropriate tab selected.

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3 Make changes to any of the following options:

• Horizontal alignment indicates horizontal placement for content in the row or column.

Options are Left, Center, and Right.

• Vertical alignment indicates vertical placement for content in the row or column. Options are

To p, Middle, and Bottom.

• Background color indicates the background color for the selected row or column.

Note: You can also click the Highlight Color button in the toolbar to change the color of the selected row or column.

• Row height specifies how tall the row is, while Column width specifies how wide the

column is. For a selected row or column, you can change the number in the Row height or Column

width text box, then select pixels or a percentage for the width, or you can select Fit to Contents to clear the set height or width so that rows or columns resize to fit the content

you add.

• Wrap te xt indicates, when selected, that text wraps to a new line when it reaches the end of the

cell. When not selected, text does not wrap, but the cell expands to accommodate the text.

• Header Row indicates that the selection is a header.

4 Click Apply to preview your changes, or click OK to apply changes and close the dialog box.

Modifying cell properties

You can modify horizontal and vertical alignment, background color, and text wrap for a selected cell.

Note: To understand how Contribute resolves formatting conflicts for cells, rows, and tables, see “About conflicts in table formatting” on page 92.

To modify table cell properties:

1 In your draft, select the cell or cells you want to modify (see “Selecting an entire table, row, or

column” on page 84).

2 Do one of the following to open the Table Properties dialog box:

• Right-click, then select Table Cell Properties from the pop-up menu.

• Select Table > Table Cell Properties.

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• Click the Ta bl e button in the toolbar.

The Table Properties dialog box appears with the appropriate tab selected.

3 Make changes to any of the following options:

• Horizontal alignment indicates horizontal placement for content in the cell, row, or column.

Options are Left, Center, and Right.

• Vertical alignment indicates vertical placement for content in the cell. Options are Top ,

Middle, and Bottom.

• Background color indicates the background color of the cell.

Note: You can also click the Highlight Color button in the toolbar to change the color of the selected cell.

• Wrap te xt indicates, when selected, that text wraps to a new line when it reaches the end of the

cell. When not selected, text does not wrap, but the cell expands to accommodate the text.

4 Click Apply to preview your changes, or click OK to apply changes and close the Table

Properties dialog box.

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Using a preset table format

You can apply a preset design to a table and select options to further customize the design.

Note: You can apply preset table designs to simple tables only. You can’t use these designs to format tables that contain merged cells or other unusual formatting that keeps the table from being a simple rectangular grid of cells.

To use a preset table design:

1 In your draft, select a table to modify or place the insertion point in any cell in the table. 2 Select Ta b le > Fo r ma t Ta bl e .

The Format Table dialog box appears with the Basic tab selected.

3 Select a design scheme from the list on the left.

The sample table displays an example of the design you select.

4 Click the Advanced tab. 5 In the Table properties section, enter a border width for the table.

Tip: If you do not want a table border, enter 0 for the border.

6 In the Left column section, select a text alignment and a text style for the left column of the

table, which might contain row headings.

7 In the Header row section, select a background color and a text color, then select a text

alignment and a text style for the top row of the table, which might contain column headings.

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8 In the Other rows section, select a color to apply to rows, then indicate how frequently you

want the colors to alternate. Click Color to select a second row color, if you choose to alternate row color.

9 Click OK.

Contribute formats your table with the design you selected.

Sorting tabular data

You can sort the rows of a table based on the contents of a single column. For example, if you have a Names column in a table, you can sort items in that column alphabetically.

You can also perform a more complicated table sort based on the contents of two columns. You cannot sort tables that contain merged cells.

To sort a table:

1 In your draft, select the table to sort or place the insertion point in any cell in the table. 2 Select Ta b le > S or t Tab l e.

The Sort Table dialog box appears.

3 From the Sort by pop-up menu, select which column’s values you want to sort. 4 From the Order pop-up menu, select whether to sort the column alphabetically or numerically,

then select whether to sort it in ascending order (A to Z, lower numbers to higher numbers) or descending order.

Tip: When the contents of a column are numbers, select Numerically. An alphabetic sort applied to a list of one- and two-digit numbers results in the numbers being sorted as if they were words (resulting in ordering such as 1, 10, 2, 20, 3, 30) rather than being sorted as numbers (resulting in ordering such as 1, 2, 3, 10, 20, 30).

5 From the Sort by pop-up menu, select which column’s values you want to sort. 6 From the Order pop-up menu, select whether to sort the column alphabetically or numerically,

then select whether to sort it in ascending order (A to Z, lower numbers to higher numbers) or descending order.

7 From the Then by pop-up menu, select a secondary column to sort on a different column.

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8 From the Order pop-up menu, select whether to sort the secondary sort column alphabetically

or numerically, and whether to sort it in ascending order (A to Z, lower numbers to higher numbers) or descending order.

9 In the Options section, select any of the following additional options:

• Sort includes first row specifies that the first row of the table is included in the sort. If the table

has a header row, the header is the first row of the table.

• Sort header rows specifies to sort header rows using the same criteria as the body rows.

• Sort footer rows specifies to sort table footer rows using the same criteria as the body rows.

• Leave row colors in original positions specifies that any table row colors should remain

associated with the same content after the sort. For example, if your table rows are formatted with two alternating colors, leave this option

unselected to ensure that the sorted table still has alternating-colored rows. If the row color is specific to the content of each row, then select this option to ensure that color remains associated with the sorted rows.

10 Click OK.

Contribute reorders the table.

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Macromedia Using Contribute User Manual

Specifications and Main Features

Frequently Asked Questions

User Manual

CONTENTS

Part I Using Contribute

Welcome to Macromedia Contribute

Website development and maintenance overview

The Contribute workflow

Learning Macromedia Contribute

Where to start

Contribute resources

Contribute Quick Start

Contribute How Do I panel

Contribute Tutorial

Contribute Support Center

Contribute Help

Getting Started

Setup requirements

Installing and launching Contribute

Connecting to a website

Importing a website connection key

Launching Contribute without a network connection

Disabling your website at startup

Exploring the Contribute Workspace

The Contribute workspace

The Contribute browser/editor

The Contribute toolbars

The Contribute sidebar

Browsing and editing pages

Navigating to web pages

Viewing drafts and new pages

Viewing home pages for your websites

Viewing recently published pages

Viewing pages and files that you can’t browse to

Setting up access to commonly used pages

Viewing pages in your bookmarks list

Adding a page to your bookmarks

Deleting a page from your bookmarks

Setting Contribute preferences

Setting general preferences

Setting file editor preferences

Setting firewall preferences

Setting invisible element preferences

Setting browser encoding

Using Contribute accessibility features

Using screen readers with Contribute

Using operating system accessibility features

Using the keyboard to navigate Contribute

Navigating the workspace

Navigating dialog boxes

Navigating tables

Authoring for accessibility

Working with Pages

Editing existing web pages

About editing

Opening a page for editing

Undoing mistakes

Saving drafts

Saving a draft while you work

Saving a draft until later

Working with pages based on Dreamweaver templates

About templates

Editing a template-based page

Setting template properties

Using Contribute to work offline

Working offline in the Contribute editor

Switching between working online and working offline

Editing content in an external application

Canceling a draft or new page

Deleting a web page

Exporting a Page

Printing a page

Adding Pages and Documents

Creating or copying a page on your website

Copying a page on your website

Creating a blank web page

Copying a sample web page

Creating a page based on a template

Creating a new page and a link to the page