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ADOBE CONTRIBUTE CS3

User Guide

186

Note: 

After you are connected to a blog server and you create another blog on the same blog server, you can add the new 

blog and its details by reconnecting to the blog server. For more information, see “Reconnecting to a blog server” on 
page 186.

To create a blog server connection using the blog URL:

1

Start Contribute.

2

In the Create New area, click the Blog Connection link. 

The Choosing a Connection screen of the Create Connection wizard appears.

3

By default, the Blogs option is selected in the What do you want to connect to pop-up menu.

4

Select Other Blog Servers from the Who hosts your blog pop-up menu if your blog is hosted on an internal server 

that supports the MetaWeblog protocol.

The What is the URL of your blog text box and Browse button appear. 

5

(Optional) In the What is the URL of your blog text box, type or browse to the URL of the home page of your blog.

6

Click Next.

The Blog Site Connection Information screen of the Create Connection wizard appears.

If you selected Blogger, or if Contribute is able to find the access point of the blog server whose URL you specified, 
only the Enter your blog server user name and Enter your blog server password text boxes appear. However, if you 
selected Other Blog Servers, or if Contribute is unable to find the access point of the blog server you specified, the 
Blog Protocol pop-up menu (which is disabled,) and the Access Point text box also appear.

7

Enter your user name in the Enter your blog server user name text box.

8

Enter the password to connect to your blog in the Enter your blog server password text box. 

9

If the Access Point text box appears, specify the Access Point.

Note: 

The Access Point is a URL used to connect to your Blog server. You can view a list of common access points in the 

Help documentation. Press F1 to view online help.

Note: 

Click the Back or Go Back button to return to a previous screen if necessary.

10

Click Done. 

Contribute creates a connection to the blog server, and the blog’s home page appears in the Contribute browser.

Reconnecting to a blog server

If you have created a blog with the blog publishing service (that you are already connected to in Contribute) and want 
to connect to the new blog, you might have to reconnect to the blog server. Reconnecting to the blog server creates 
a connection and adds templates for the new blog in Contribute.

To reconnect a blog server connection:

•

If Contribute is not running, open the application. Contribute reconnects to the blog server and automatically 
updates the connection with the details of the new blogs.

•

If Contribute is running, do any of the following:

a

Exit Contribute and reopen the application.

b

Edit the blog server connection without making any changes to the user information. For more information on 

editing blog server connections, see “Editing website and blog server connections” on page 205.

Summary of Contents for 38040286 - Contribute CS3 - PC

Page 1: ...USING AND ADMINISTERING CONTRIBUTE...

Page 2: ...mweaver Encore Fireworks Flash Illustrator InDesign and Photoshop are either registered trademarks or trademarks of Adobe Systems Incorporated in the United States and or other countries Microsoft and...

Page 3: ...ing or disabling the Contribute startup password 29 Setting browser encoding 29 Using Contribute accessibility features 30 Chapter 4 Working with Pages and Blog Entries About working with web pages an...

Page 4: ...ecking spelling 97 Finding and replacing text 97 Chapter 7 Working with Images and Graphic Elements About inserting images and buttons 99 Adding an image to a page 101 Inserting shared assets into a w...

Page 5: ...g from RSS aggregators 172 Publishing a blog entry to your blog 175 Chapter 12 Creating and Managing Website and Blog Server Connections About creating and sending website connections 179 Preparing to...

Page 6: ...ute in RSS aggregators 241 Chapter 15 Windows Keyboard Shortcuts File menu 243 Edit menu 243 View menu 244 Insert menu 244 Format menu 244 Table menu 245 Working with blog entries 245 Working in templ...

Page 7: ...age 4 What s new on page 8 Website development and maintenance overview on page 9 Installation Requirements To review complete system requirements and recommendations for your Adobe software see the R...

Page 8: ...software is available in a variety of formats In product and LiveDocs Help In product Help provides access to all documentation and instructional content available at the time the product ships It is...

Page 9: ...topic with a Photoshop icon and a Contribute icon you know that the topic either describes functionality that is similar in the two products or documents cross product workflows Note If you search fo...

Page 10: ...te team determines which Contribute resources you start with and use regularly Contribute administrators should start with the Quick Start guides to install Contribute and help users get connected As...

Page 11: ...subjects for Adobe Contribute CS3 including Publishing to a website Administering a website Editing and posting blog entries Using Dreamweaver templates with Contribute To access Adobe Creative Suite...

Page 12: ...see the Read Me html file on the installation DVD DVD content The installation or content DVD included with your product contains additional resources for use with your software The Goodies folder co...

Page 13: ...ww adobe com go store provides access to thousands of plug ins from third party developers helping you to automate tasks customize workflows create specialized professional effects and more Adobe Labs...

Page 14: ...authentication or existing blogger account details Enhanced blog entry management The enhanced user interface in Adobe Contribute CS3 lets you browse to a specific blog home page and edit specific bl...

Page 15: ...ng designing developing testing and publishing the website For some websites the developer might use templates to maintain a consistent look and feel across the website Dreamweaver web developers shou...

Page 16: ...ADOBE CONTRIBUTE CS3 User Guide 10...

Page 17: ...or blog entry on your website or blog server Note You must connect to a website before you can edit and publish pages on that website and you must connect to a blog server before you can edit and publ...

Page 18: ...Connection Wizard see Creating a website connection on page 183 If you use a Macintosh computer and have a Mac account Contribute detects the Mac account and asks if you want to create a connection t...

Page 19: ...og entries and create web pages or blog entries After you enter the correct password you can make updates and publish changes or new entries to the connected websites and blogs until you close Contrib...

Page 20: ...lve your network connection problem Note You can disable a website or blog at any time not just at startup when there s a problem If you have multiple websites and blogs you can disable the ones you a...

Page 21: ...tion in the Cross DOM API Adobe After Effects Adobe Premiere Pro Adobe Audition and Adobe Encore If the file can be viewed in the embedded browser it is opened in the embedded browser Edit files in on...

Page 22: ...o insert files from Adobe Bridge into Adobe Contribute 1 Start Adobe Contribute 2 Open a draft of a web page or blog entry Note While placing a file in Contribute if Adobe Contribute is not running or...

Page 23: ...for publishing the document do the following a Select the website where you want to publish the file Note If you do not have a connection to your website before you publish a document you can create o...

Page 24: ...ADOBE CONTRIBUTE CS3 User Guide 18...

Page 25: ...te This chapter includes the following sections The Contribute workspace on page 19 Switching between browsing and editing on page 23 Browsing to web pages and blog entries on page 23 Opening web page...

Page 26: ...cting to a website or blog on page 12 You can edit text images tables links and pages with frames You can publish your changes to make the updated web page live on your website It s easy to browse and...

Page 27: ...some formatting options are not available Also options might be disabled if a Cascading Style Sheet has been applied to a text selection The image editing toolbar contains buttons for editing images...

Page 28: ...View Sidebar In Windows click the arrow on the splitter bar between the sidebar and the Contribute browser and editor On the Macintosh double click the grabber on the splitter bar between the sidebar...

Page 29: ...the Edit Page button in the toolbar to edit a web page or click the Edit Entry button to edit a blog entry Note Edit Page and Edit Entry are enabled only for pages on a website or entries in a blog th...

Page 30: ...of the following Click links in web pages or blog entries to navigate to other pages Type the web address URL of the page in the Address text box and click Go You can also press Enter or Return Selec...

Page 31: ...t a draft from the pop up menu Viewing home pages for your websites and blogs You can use the toolbar to view the home pages for all your websites and blogs The View menu also gives you access to thes...

Page 32: ...e saved on a website folder but aren t linked from any page on your website or blog To view a page or file that is not linked from another web page or blog entry 1 In the Contribute browser or editor...

Page 33: ...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 The Add Bookmark dialog box appears 3 To change the title of the boo...

Page 34: ...n you click the New button and whether comments and trackbacks are allowed by default for blog entries Select Editing to set general editing options such as how Contribute handles table editing or to...

Page 35: ...nt you must remove all your existing website connections To change the Contribute startup password 1 Select Edit Preferences Windows or Contribute Preferences Macintosh The Preferences dialog box appe...

Page 36: ...You activate this setting through the Windows Control Panel When high contrast is on Contribute responds as follows Dialog boxes and panels use system color settings For example if you set the color...

Page 37: ...box without making any changes press Escape or Alt F4 Windows Windows Only 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 optio...

Page 38: ...eral Rehabilitation Act www section508 gov Also as you edit your pages remember that some visitors use screen readers Contribute helps you make your images and tables more accessible in the following...

Page 39: ...he Contribute toolbar in these browsers you can add and edit web pages publish web pages to your website or publish to a blog directly from the browsers This chapter contains the following sections Ab...

Page 40: ...to a web page or blog entry the message area under the toolbar indicates whether you can edit it A Refresh button B Entries list While you edit a web page or blog entry Contribute saves it as a draft...

Page 41: ...you send a draft for review you transfer ownership of that draft to the reviewer That means the reviewer has to take action on the draft After you send a draft for review you can track the draft to s...

Page 42: ...template contains a preset page layout and includes elements such as text and images A template gives you a starting point for new web pages and blogs Using a template can ensure that the pages on you...

Page 43: ...to edit web pages and blog entries from your browser such as Internet Explorer and Mozilla Firefox For more information about editing web pages and blog entries with Contribute plug ins see Opening a...

Page 44: ...or select File Actions Edit Entry The blog entry opens as a draft in Contribute You can make your changes to the content as needed and publish the entry Note You can link this blog entry to a blank b...

Page 45: ...ows computer you will be prompted to install the Firefox Extension plug in If you click Cancel you can install this component from the following path contribute install path SupportFiles FirefoxExtens...

Page 46: ...n button when Contribute opens the page or entry then you do not have a connection to the website or blog you were browsing and you cannot edit Undoing mistakes In Contribute as in most applications y...

Page 47: ...one of the following to leave your draft Click Browser in the Pages panel to switch to the browser Select View Browser to switch to the browser Click the Save for Later button in the toolbar to close...

Page 48: ...iew the draft and publish it For more information about the draft review process see Understanding the draft review process on page 35 Note The draft review process only applies to web page drafts It...

Page 49: ...ing a file from your computer to your website on page 162 To send a file for review directly from your computer 1 Select File Send File from My Computer The Select File dialog box appears 2 Select the...

Page 50: ...h Drafts 4 When you finish viewing the Draft Console or the draft you selected select the browser or another draft in the Pages panel Reviewing a web page draft When someone sends you a web page draft...

Page 51: ...rrow at the bottom right of the Contribute window to display the draft status pane if it is not already showing 2 Do one of the following Click the Draft History button in the draft status pane Select...

Page 52: ...wser window and paste the address in an e mail message to send to reviewers 5 Enter the reviewer s name and a message and then send the e mail message In Contribute you can work on another draft or sw...

Page 53: ...Contribute Working with web pages based on Dreamweaver templates A Dreamweaver template is a special type of web page that contains a preset page layout and includes elements such as text and images I...

Page 54: ...created automatically after you start working in a blog in Contribute Setting template properties for a web page The Dreamweaver template designer might make it possible for you to show or hide parts...

Page 55: ...more information on specifying target blogs see Selecting the blog to post a blog entry to on page 68 To customize a blog template file 1 Open the DefaultTemplate dwt file in any text editor To do th...

Page 56: ...mplates for the selected website or blog only For selected template updates the selected template only The template is refreshed 4 Click OK While creating a new page if you select a template that does...

Page 57: ...drafts in the Pages panel or create web pages and blog entries while you re offline Some Contribute editor functions are not available when you re offline For example you can t publish web pages or bl...

Page 58: ...right click Windows or Control click Macintosh the element you want to edit and then select Edit in External Application Contribute displays the External Application Editing page and starts an externa...

Page 59: ...itor view the page you want to edit the source for 2 Select File Actions Edit Page Source in External Application Contribute displays the External Application Editing page and starts an external editi...

Page 60: ...bar Contribute discards the new web page or blog entry Deleting a web page or blog entry You can permanently delete pages and entries from your website or blog If you want to delete a draft and not re...

Page 61: ...from the View menu In the dialog box that appears select the required blog entry and click the Delete button 4 In the confirmation dialog box click Yes to confirm that you want to delete the entry Con...

Page 62: ...and print it or you can print a web page or blog entry you are editing to check your changes To preview a web page or blog entry before you print 1 Do one of the following Select File Print Preview W...

Page 63: ...ategories which you can use to group related blog entries Select the blog you want to publish the entry to Set preferences to do the following for blog entries Allow users to add comments Allow users...

Page 64: ...gs Creating or copying a page on your website You can create or copy any of the following types of pages on your website Copy of Current Page Blank Web Page Starter Web Page Template Note If your Cont...

Page 65: ...the Preview pane on the right side of the dialog box 3 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 appe...

Page 66: ...p 2 You can change the folder location when you publish the new page Copying a starter web page Contribute comes with built in starter web pages that you can copy and use on your website Use any of th...

Page 67: ...ce existing text Contribute retains the formatting established by the design of the starter web page You can apply formatting to any text to override the design To add text to draft copy text from the...

Page 68: ...erence is that a Dreamweaver template has editable and locked regions see Working with web pages based on Dreamweaver templates on page 47 and a page designated as a template by your Contribute admini...

Page 69: ...h and then select Blank Web Page Note Please select the option under My Computer Windows or This Mac Macintosh and not under a website that you are connected to 3 Enter a title for the new page 4 Clic...

Page 70: ...see Linking to a new blank blog entry on page 136 Creating a blog entry based on a quoted selection You can create a new blog entry from information you select in a web page in the Contribute browser...

Page 71: ...blog entry it is published immediately with the date you specified If you select a future date and publish the blog entry the blog entry will be published on the specified date at the specified time...

Page 72: ...tegory the administrator has restricted access to the other properties in that category For more information talk to your Contribute administrator or see Setting style and font settings on page 221 Fo...

Page 73: ...etting Contribute preferences on page 28 Note Some blog hosts do not support comments or require you to set a preference to allow comments Review you blog host s documentation for more information For...

Page 74: ...want to post to from the pop up menu Note A warning appears if you re posting an existing blog entry that you re editing to a target blog other than the original blog If you post the edited blog entry...

Page 75: ...mat Blog Metadata Tags to place the pointer in the Tags field in the toolbar 3 In the Tags field enter one or more tags for the blog entry You can enter as many tags as you want for an entry Use comma...

Page 76: ...ries in Contribute to reflect the changes Note You can make changes only to the available categories at your blog host You can t make changes to the categories in Contribute To refresh the list of ava...

Page 77: ...ne trackback URL per line in the Trackbacks dialog box and the Trackback URL s field in the Contribute workspace Allowing comments for blog entries You can use the Blog Defaults option of the Preferen...

Page 78: ...place the insertion point where you want the PDF document to appear 2 Select Insert Document as PDF The Open dialog box appears with a list of PDF Convertible Documents 3 Select an MS Office document...

Page 79: ...ntent to a web page or blog entry Add the contents of a Word or Excel document to a new or existing web page or blog entry Windows only Insert a link to a Word or Excel document on an existing web pag...

Page 80: ...ain check box if you do not want to be asked about the insert option in the future You can also set these preferences from the Edit menu in Contribute To do this select Edit Preferences Microsoft Docu...

Page 81: ...ink to the PDF to convert the selected document into a PDF and insert a link to the PDF document Select Convert to PDF and embed the PDF as Object to convert the selected document into a PDF and embed...

Page 82: ...utlook contents into a page from Microsoft Office Windows only You can add the contents of a document Word document Excel spreadsheet or an Outlook message to a new web page You can also associate tem...

Page 83: ...ton a message indicating that there are no templates is displayed 5 Optional If you selected content in the document and want to open the entire document instead of the selection clear the Open curren...

Page 84: ...onnection see Creating a website connection on page 183 The Open As New Page dialog box appears in Contribute 4 Select the website where you want to place your document 5 Click the Choose Template but...

Page 85: ...d or Excel 2 Optional To open only a specific section of the document in Contribute select the section 3 To open the document in Contribute do one of the following from the Contribute toolbar in the a...

Page 86: ...ment templates while opening an MS Office document in Contribute 1 Open a Microsoft Office application file 2 Edit the content and save the document 3 Click the Open in Contribute button in the toolba...

Page 87: ...L format 11 Optional If you selected content in the document and want to open the entire document instead of the selection clear the Open current selection only check box 12 Click Open The Insert Micr...

Page 88: ...the Do not allow PDF Embedding option for the relevant website or blog connection 5 Optional Select the Remember this option and don t ask again check box if it is required 6 Click OK Note If you inse...

Page 89: ...ng specific values in the PDF Properties dialog box To resize an embedded PDF file manually 1 In your draft select the content of the embedded PDF you want to resize 2 Drag one of the selection handle...

Page 90: ...the HTML code snippet 5 Select Insert HTML Snippet The Insert HTML Snippet dialog box appears Note If your website Administrator has not enabled the Allow HTML Snippet Insertion option for your user r...

Page 91: ...nks on page 133 About HTML and CSS styles in the Contribute Style menu The Style pop up menu in Contribute lists HTML heading and paragraph styles plus user defined Cascading Style Sheet CSS styles th...

Page 92: ...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 draf...

Page 93: ...character from the pop up menu Select Insert Special Characters and then select Other In the Insert Other Character dialog box click the character you want to insert and then click OK The character a...

Page 94: ...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 text formatting toolbar Right click Windows or Control click Macintosh select Font and...

Page 95: ...your draft select the text you want to change or place the insertion point in the paragraph you want to change 2 Do one of the following Select a style from the Style pop up menu in the text formatti...

Page 96: ...or more text elements Contribute labels those elements with the same title eliminating redundant style names To rename a style 1 In your draft select Format Style Rename Style or select Rename Style f...

Page 97: ...tions from the pop up menu Note Emphasis and Strong apply the same styles as Italic and Bold respectively but use different HTML tags Your Contribute administrator determines which tag Contribute actu...

Page 98: ...following Select Insert Line Break Press Shift Enter Windows or Shift Return Macintosh Aligning text You can select one of four text alignment options Left Center Right and Justify To change text alig...

Page 99: ...intosh to type another item and repeat for each item 5 When you finish typing the list do one of the following to turn off numbering Press Enter or Return twice Press Enter or Return and then click th...

Page 100: ...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...

Page 101: ...ilable for template based pages or in tables Select Format Indent Contribute indents the number or bullet of the new line 4 To have the sublist and parent list be different types click the Numbered Li...

Page 102: ...he Help button 4 Click OK Contribute applies your changes to the list It also applies the new style automatically to any items you add to the list To set list properties for a list item 1 In your draf...

Page 103: ...and replacing text You can search the draft you re editing for specific text You can also search for and replace text in drafts To search for text 1 In your draft select Edit Find The Find and Replac...

Page 104: ...ADOBE CONTRIBUTE CS3 User Guide 98...

Page 105: ...an image a hypertext link also known as a link see Creating text and image links on page 133 This chapter contains the following sections About inserting images and buttons on page 99 Adding an image...

Page 106: ...or or see Setting page editing and paragraph settings on page 220 You can add five kinds of PayPal buttons to a web page Buy Now button defines an item offered for immediate purchase and includes a pr...

Page 107: ...the page see Dragging images to a page on page 102 or by copying and pasting them on the page see Copying and pasting images on page 102 To add an image using the Insert menu or Image button 1 Place t...

Page 108: ...ect the image 3 Drag the image to your Contribute draft where you want the image to appear You can t drag an image from a web browser if the image has a link attached to it Save the image to your comp...

Page 109: ...d assets into a web page Contribute lets you insert images Flash content or Dreamweaver library items from a list of shared assets for your website Your Contribute administrator adds assets to the lis...

Page 110: ...ing an image to a page on page 101 you can change its viewable properties Image properties include location of image source display area size padding alignment border and alternate text Modifying imag...

Page 111: ...ng an image You can easily move an image to a new location on a web page To move an image on a draft do one of the following Drag the image to a new location Select the image and then copy or cut and...

Page 112: ...ces of that image on your website This section covers the following topics Adjusting the brightness and contrast of an image on page 106 Sharpening an image on page 107 Cropping an image on page 107 R...

Page 113: ...image editing For more information talk to your Contribute administrator or see Setting page editing and paragraph settings on page 220 The Sharpen dialog box appears 3 Specify the degree of sharpeni...

Page 114: ...lly or by entering specific values Note Changing an image this way affects only this instance of the image it does not affect the original image source file To resize an image visually 1 In your draft...

Page 115: ...ffect all instances of that image on your website To edit an image in an external image editing application 1 Do one of the following In the Contribute browser click Choose in the toolbar select the i...

Page 116: ...about inserting movie types other than Flash see Inserting a video on to your web page on page 111 To insert Flash content 1 Place the insertion point in your draft where you want the Flash content to...

Page 117: ...dit and save videos for your website save the videos for the web so that they are compressed To insert a video 1 Place the insertion point where you want the video to appear in your draft 2 Select one...

Page 118: ...dit properties for a SWF file see Setting Flash movie properties on page 110 To set video properties 1 Select the video placeholder in your draft 2 Double click the video placeholder or select Format...

Page 119: ...add a podcast to a blog entry and then publish it to your blog After you publish a blog that has an enclosure the enclosure appears as a link in the page Note You can add only one enclosure to a new o...

Page 120: ...fault media player to Windows Media Player Windows only or QuickTime Windows or Macintosh Adding enclosures from the Internet Windows Media Player in Windows When your default media player is Windows...

Page 121: ...Enclosures button in the toolbar and select From the Internet from the pop up menu The Browse for Enclosure dialog box appears 2 Browse to the web page and then to the hyperlink of the audio or video...

Page 122: ...1 In your draft click the horizontal rule to select it 2 Press Delete Changing the properties of a horizontal rule You can customize the height width and shading applied to a horizontal rule on a pag...

Page 123: ...settings on page 220 This section covers the following topics Inserting a single PayPal button on page 117 Inserting multiple PayPal buttons on page 118 Editing a PayPal button on page 118 Inserting a...

Page 124: ...n your draft place the insertion point in the paragraph and then press Enter Windows or Return Macintosh 2 Insert a PayPal button To add a button to a table cell that already contains a button 1 In yo...

Page 125: ...n page 124 Adding deleting and merging table rows and columns on page 125 Modifying table appearance on page 127 Sorting tabular data on page 131 About conflicts in table formatting When formatting ta...

Page 126: ...ear 2 Do one of the following to open the Insert Table dialog box Click the Table button in the toolbar Select Insert Table Select Table Insert Table The Insert Table dialog box appears 3 Complete the...

Page 127: ...he table or click anywhere on the right or bottom edge Click in a table cell and then select Table Select Table Selection handles appear on the selected table s lower and right edges To select rows or...

Page 128: ...portionately To resize a table 1 In your draft select the table you want to resize see Selecting table elements on page 121 2 Do one of the following To resize the table horizontally drag the selectio...

Page 129: ...e properties To change alignment for a table 1 In your draft select the table you want to realign see Selecting table elements on page 121 2 Do one of the following to open the Table Properties dialog...

Page 130: ...the same or another table see Pasting table cells on page 125 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 131: ...er three by two block in which to paste the cut or copied content 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 ce...

Page 132: ...ht 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 Windows or Co...

Page 133: ...Macintosh and then select Merge Cells Contribute merges the content into a single cell To split table cells 1 In your draft place the insertion point in the cell you want to split Note Contribute only...

Page 134: ...ecting table elements on page 121 2 Do one of the following to open the Table Properties dialog box Click the Table button in the toolbar Right click Windows or Control click Macintosh and then select...

Page 135: ...n the dialog box click the Help button 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 alig...

Page 136: ...ck the Help button 4 Click Apply to preview your changes or click OK to apply changes and close the Table Properties dialog box Using a preset table format You can apply a preset design to a table and...

Page 137: ...g 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...

Page 138: ...BE CONTRIBUTE CS3 User Guide 132 The Sort Table dialog box appears 3 Complete the dialog box For information about options in the dialog box click the Help button 4 Click OK Contribute reorders the ta...

Page 139: ...as links When a visitor to your website clicks a link on a specified text or an image the browser takes the visitor to another web page or file or starts their e mail application if the link is in a b...

Page 140: ...appears 3 Click Drafts and Recent Pages Windows or Drafts Macintosh at the top of the dialog box if it s not already selected 4 Complete the dialog box For information about options in the dialog box...

Page 141: ...ite To create a link to a new page 1 In your draft 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...

Page 142: ...Contribute creates at the same time that it creates the link Note The new blank blog entry appears on your blog when you publish the blog entry draft the blog entry where you want to insert the link...

Page 143: ...on another website You can create a link to another page on your website or on another website If the page you re linking to is not linked to any other pages so you can t browse to it Contribute lets...

Page 144: ...s a new message with the e mail address you specified in the visitor s default e mail application For example you might create the text link Contact us about our new products When a visitor clicks the...

Page 145: ...ve or an HTML page saved on your desktop This essentially adds a new page to your website with the content contained in the file When you publish the page with the link Contribute copies the file into...

Page 146: ...Insert Link dialog box appears 3 Click the File on My Computer button Windows or File button Macintosh at the top of the dialog box if it is not already selected 4 Complete the dialog box For informat...

Page 147: ...ant the link to appear The link text Contribute inserts is the title of the content you link to For example if you link to a meeting named My Meeting the link text in your draft is My Meeting You can...

Page 148: ...he Insert Link dialog box has three advanced linking options editing the link s URL setting a target and linking to a specific place on a page Editing the URL for a link If you are familiar with creat...

Page 149: ...tead of the current window If you create a link in a document with frames you can indicate which frame or target displays the new content For more information about creating targets for frames see Tar...

Page 150: ...ins the link Entire window opens the linked document in the current window If the page contains frames the linked page fills the entire window not just the frame that contains the link New window open...

Page 151: ...marker To turn invisible elements off again select Edit Preferences and then select Invisible Elements Linking to a section anchor You can link to a section anchor when you create the link or you can...

Page 152: ...lick OK Contribute modifies the existing link Editing section anchors After you create a section anchor you can change its name or delete it Note If you edit a section anchor links to that anchor will...

Page 153: ...can later change link text or change the page that the link opens To change link text 1 In your draft select the link text you want to change 2 Type new text To change link destination 1 In your draf...

Page 154: ...Properties The Insert Link dialog box appears 3 Change any of the following link properties Link text You can also change link text by selecting the text in your draft and typing over it Linked file w...

Page 155: ...User Guide 149 Your page appears in your default web browser 2 Click the links to make sure they open the correct pages or start your e mail application 3 Close the browser preview to return to the d...

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Page 157: ...frames on page 151 Editing frame content on page 153 Saving and publishing a page with frames on page 154 Targeting frame content on page 154 About frames A web page designed with frames displays dif...

Page 158: ...e with three frames navigation logo and main content actually has four files the frameset and three web pages one for each frame When a website visitor clicks a link in one frame a new page can be loa...

Page 159: ...a frame 1 Browse to the page with frames to edit and then click the Edit Page button The Select a Frame to Edit dialog box appears with a list of page titles and web addresses URLs for the frame page...

Page 160: ...blishing a page to your website on page 158 Note Depending on the role the Contribute administrator assigned you you might not be able to publish Contribute displays the frameset with the updated page...

Page 161: ...t the linked page to open You can either enter a custom named frame in the Target frame text box which opens the page in that frame or select one of the following frame targets Default opens the page...

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Page 163: ...tribute plug ins in Word Excel and Outlook email reader let you easily publish your Word documents Excel spreadsheets and e mail messages to your website You can publish a document to a web page in th...

Page 164: ...ll back from version C of a page to version A and you used Contribute to edit an image in version B When you roll back to version A you do not see the current version of the image You need to also rol...

Page 165: ...istrator To publish updates to an existing page 1 In your draft click the Publish button in the toolbar Note Depending on the role the Contribute administrator assigned you you might not be able to pu...

Page 166: ...re editing click the Publish button in the toolbar Note Depending on the role the Contribute administrator assigned you you might not be able to publish The Publish New Page dialog box appears 2 You...

Page 167: ...information about women s cargo pants for your company website Then you realize that you forgot to make a copy of the existing page before you made edits As long as you don t click Publish the origina...

Page 168: ...Publish or Next If your new page draft links to any other new pages the Publish New Linked Pages dialog box appears 6 If the Publish New Linked Pages box appears for each unpublished linked page you c...

Page 169: ...r on page 43 The Select File dialog box appears 2 Select the file you want to add to the website and then click Select Note You cannot select HTML executable or template files If you select an invalid...

Page 170: ...puter For example suppose you post the quarterly earnings spreadsheet on your website each quarter You can easily replace the current live version with the new spreadsheet saved on your computer There...

Page 171: ...se to the page that contains the link to the file you want to replace and then click the Edit Page button 2 In the draft select the link to the file you re replacing and then click the Link button in...

Page 172: ...Rollback feature for web pages on page 158 Note The Rollback feature is only available if your Contribute administrator enabled it For more information see your Contribute administrator or see Enablin...

Page 173: ...ribute Next time you want to change the look and feel of your MS Office documents on the corporate website you only need to update the document s associated template The Contribute plug ins in these a...

Page 174: ...document is associated with the document you are currently publishing In addition if the template does not match the template on the server Contribute displays the Download Template dialog box You ca...

Page 175: ...content directly to your blog without opening the blog site You can use the Post To Blog plug ins to post content to your blog from a browser or from Microsoft Office applications such as Word Excel...

Page 176: ...on page 28 6 Click Publish Posting content to a blog from Microsoft Office applications Windows only You can post documents from Microsoft Office applications such as Word Excel and Outlook e mail re...

Page 177: ...the insert option in the future You can also set these preferences in the Microsoft Documents tab from the Edit menu in Contribute To do this select Edit Preferences Microsoft Documents and make a se...

Page 178: ...content such as news items to your blog from RSS aggregators You can set Contribute as your blog publishing tool in RSS aggregators such as FeedDemon Windows and NetNewsWire Macintosh You can now pos...

Page 179: ...GOLProduct aspx ProdID FeedDemon Configuring Contribute in FeedDemon may vary with different versions of FeedDemon The following configu ration process applies to FeedDemon version 2 0 To configure Co...

Page 180: ...k OK Contribute now appears in the Blog Publishing Tool dialog box 8 Click OK To verify if Configure is successfully configured in FeedDemon do the following Select any news item in FeedDemon Right cl...

Page 181: ...om NetNewsWire After you successfully configure Contribute in NetNewsWire you can post news entries to your blog To post to a blog from NetNewsWire 1 Select the news item in the News Items list in Net...

Page 182: ...der location if necessary c Click Publish All For more information about options in the dialog box click the Help button Contribute publishes the blog entry and any new blog entries or web pages that...

Page 183: ...y 1 In your draft click the Publish button in the toolbar Note Some blogs do not allow images enclosures media files and links to local files in the content You might not be able to publish such conte...

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Page 185: ...184 Enabling and Disabling CPS for a website on page 188 Becoming an administrator of an existing Contribute website on page 190 Configuring Contribute administration settings on page 192 Sending con...

Page 186: ...pe extensions htm html cfm asp jsp php and so on If the index page filename that you use for your website is listed in the Index files section of the Index and URL Mapping dialog box index cfm for exa...

Page 187: ...hrough two different web addresses differentiated by port numbers you must add these web addresses to the Alternate addresses field In this example assume that your organization maintains the followin...

Page 188: ...cal network The network path includes the name of the server on which the website is stored and the directory path of the website s files on that server For example your network path might be mycomput...

Page 189: ...g you for the information needed to establish a website connection The process is different to create a connection to a blog for more information see Creating a blog server connection on page 184 Note...

Page 190: ...Summary screen review the connection settings to verify that they re correct and click Done Windows or Finish Macintosh to complete the connection Contribute creates a connection to the website After...

Page 191: ...Click Next 5 Select Blogs from the What do you want to connect to pop up menu 6 Select your blog s host from the Who hosts your blog pop up menu 7 Click Next 8 If you selected Blogger TypePad or WordP...

Page 192: ...ou specified the Blog Protocol pop up menu which is disabled and the Access Point text box also appear 7 Enter your user name in the Enter your blog server user name text box 8 Enter the password to c...

Page 193: ...ction to the root folder of your website For information about selecting a different folder to connect to see Selecting a Mac website folder to connect to on page 187 Note If Contribute does not detec...

Page 194: ...website connection on page 183 After you ve completed those tasks you can enable CPS for your website Before you enable CPS to use the User Directory with your website make sure that any users who pr...

Page 195: ...anages This can be useful when you need to temporarily prevent users from connecting to the server for example when you move the server or perform server maintenance When you disable CPS users who wer...

Page 196: ...ss outstanding drafts after you disable the service Note Make sure that users connected to the website also publish any outstanding drafts 2 Select Edit Administer Websites Windows or Contribute Admin...

Page 197: ...e If a website does not have an administrator associated with it the text No administrator appears in the Administrator column of the dialog box If a website does not have an administrator you can bec...

Page 198: ...can set settings that affect the whole website such as the administrator s contact or password information the number of rollback versions of pages to save and filename conventions for website default...

Page 199: ...nistrator password To change the administrator password see Changing the administrator s password on page 193 To change the administrator e mail address 1 Select Edit Administer Websites Windows or Co...

Page 200: ...t and publish your changes without having previously updated and published that page there is only one rollback version of the page in this case the rollback version is the original page Contribute ca...

Page 201: ...ges panel appears 4 Select the document encoding format you want to use from the Default encoding pop up menu 5 Select another category to modify or click Close to exit the Administer Website dialog b...

Page 202: ...s panel appears 4 Click the Add button The Add or Edit Index Filename dialog box appears 5 Enter an index filename and click OK The new index filename appears at the bottom of the list of possible ind...

Page 203: ...te dialog box and save your changes or select another category to modify Specifying alternative website addresses If Contribute users visit a website using a different host name directory path or port...

Page 204: ...r review The guard page prevents users from browsing to a Contribute folder containing files that you don t want them to access To specify a guard page for a website 1 Select Edit Administer Websites...

Page 205: ...re ready transition all users to Contribute 4 0 or later and enable Compatibility Mode To enable Compatibility Mode 1 In Contribute 4 0 or later select Edit Administer Websites and then select a websi...

Page 206: ...share with users 1 Select Edit Administer Websites Windows or Contribute Administer Websites Macintosh and select the website you want to administer from the submenu 2 Do one of the following If the...

Page 207: ...ver For more information about connection keys see Connection keys on page 181 Note Before users can use a connection key to connect to a CPS managed website you must add users to the website If you h...

Page 208: ...ose users can connect unlike non managed websites where anyone with a connection key or connection information can connect to the site After you add a user to a website you can send them a connection...

Page 209: ...To remove users from roles of managed sites 1 Select Edit Administer Websites Windows or Contribute Administer Websites Macintosh and then select the website you want to administer from the submenu I...

Page 210: ...entries For websites managed with CPS you can either disable connections of individual sites or you can remove the CPS connection You cannot rename or remove an individual connection if it is managed...

Page 211: ...Enabling a website or blog server connection on page 208 You can enable a website or blog server connection that you previously disabled Connecting to websites and blog servers at startup on page 209...

Page 212: ...og box Renaming a website or blog server connection You can rename a website or blog server connection as it appears in Contribute The new name appears in the Home Pages menu the My Connections dialog...

Page 213: ...ed by the deleted blog server are also deleted To remove a CPS managed website connection 1 Close any open drafts for the website you are removing Contribute does not remove a connection to a website...

Page 214: ...sabling websites managed by CPS If you do not want your website to be managed by the publishing server CPS you may disable the publishing server from the Administer Website dialog box For more informa...

Page 215: ...tartup check box to configure Contribute to connect to the selected website or blog server at startup Note You cannot set this option for a specific blog entry Next time you start Contribute a connect...

Page 216: ...210 Click the Certificate link and note the Public key fingerprint Ask your CPS administrator to verify that the public key fingerprint is valid If you do not select the Trust this server check box yo...

Page 217: ...tors of this website Publisher Users with this role can create and edit pages as well as publish pages to the website Writer Users with this role can create and edit pages but cannot publish pages to...

Page 218: ...options for new images on page 224 File Placement lets you specify folder locations for files based on the file extension used to identify the file type You can also specify that Contribute not allow...

Page 219: ...a new role lets you reuse the selected role s settings You can modify the new role s settings as needed 5 Enter a name for the role you want to create and then click OK The new role appears in the lis...

Page 220: ...that make up the role click Send Connection Key The Export Connection Wizard appears To learn how to export a connection key see Sending connection keys for websites on page 200 To edit the role now s...

Page 221: ...xist add users to roles edit and remove roles and send connection key files to users assigning them a role 3 Select the role whose settings you want to modify and then click Edit Role Settings The Edi...

Page 222: ...ting HTML Code Snippets on page 221 Setting style and font settings on page 221 Settings for new web pages on page 223 Setting options for file placement on page 225 Setting options for shared assets...

Page 223: ...users assigned to this role can publish pages they create They can also publish or delete drafts sent to them for review Providing publish and delete restrictions for draft reviews lets users delete a...

Page 224: ...es and to any subfolders they contain as well as determine whether users can delete web pages and related files Setting folder access settings You can choose to limit user access to specific folders o...

Page 225: ...e 7 Click OK When the next Contribute user connects to this website they can edit only those pages and files that are inside the listed folders To change access to a folder in the list do one of the f...

Page 226: ...tion see Rolling back to a previous version of a page on page 166 Setting page editing and paragraph settings The Editing category lets you specify what kinds of changes users can make to the website...

Page 227: ...og box appears enter the administrator password and click OK The Administer Website dialog box appears 3 Select Users and Roles Select Administrator and then click Edit Role Settings The Edit Administ...

Page 228: ...ags lets you determine whether users can create HTML styles and to what degree they can modify and apply styles on the website 4 Modify the style settings for your chosen style support option as neces...

Page 229: ...Select the following options Allow users to apply styles Include CSS styles in the Style menu Show only CSS styles included in the CSS file 5 Click Choose The Choose File or Blog Entry dialog box show...

Page 230: ...e only Dreamweaver templates if they are available For more information about options in this dialog box click the Help button in the dialog box 4 Select another role settings category to modify or cl...

Page 231: ...click OK to apply your changes Setting options for file placement Contribute lets you specify what folders into which you can copy different file types The file types include images linked documents s...

Page 232: ...ox 4 Select another role settings category to modify or click OK to apply your changes Setting options for shared assets Contribute lets users add images Adobe Flash content or Adobe s Dreamweaver lib...

Page 233: ...r to the asset alternate text for images and the editing attribute for Dream weaver Library items You create one Shared Assets list for all roles in your website or you customize these lists for each...

Page 234: ...e It is not specific to any shared assets that might be selected in the pane For more information about options in this dialog box click the Help button in the dialog box 5 Click OK Managing drafts se...

Page 235: ...properly when it is installed on the Windows platform The following common errors can cause problems when installing the Contribute software Entering an invalid serial number Entering the serial numb...

Page 236: ...connected from the network In some instances Contribute may be unaware that the network connection is either disconnected or otherwise unavailable If this occurs Contribute attempts to connect to the...

Page 237: ...231 LAN connection can t locate the remote folder on page 232 FTP dialog box fails to accept your user name and password on page 232 Can t view the My Connections dialog box If you cannot view the My...

Page 238: ...r to the documentation supplied with your server operating system To give specific permission groups access to subfolders of a read only FTP root do one of the following Write enable the root folder C...

Page 239: ...alternative website addresses on page 197 You might be experiencing a network or server abnormality Try refreshing the page or using the Back and Forward buttons to navigate to the page a second time...

Page 240: ...are Note You can t perform this procedure from a web browser 2 On the server open the root folder of your Contribute website and then open the _mm folder that s inside the root folder A typical Window...

Page 241: ...ng e mail In some situations Contribute might not be able to find or start your default e mail application to create the e mail review message Note On the Macintosh Contribute works with the following...

Page 242: ...click the Refresh Templates button in the New Web Page or Blog Entry dialog box and then select For all websites or For selected website blog to download templates If either of the options For all we...

Page 243: ...administrator role password If you forget the password assigned to the Contribute administrator role you can reset the password by deleting the shared settings file from the website and creating a sha...

Page 244: ...ge or click a link on an existing page that links to the deleted page When you do this the web server responds with an HTTP 404 error page not found Note Some web servers are configured so that they r...

Page 245: ...Name is not responding Contact your system administrator You can retry the connection by clicking the Retry Connection button in the browser toolbar The user s permission group has been removed If a u...

Page 246: ...g folder and file access settings on page 218 An alert asks whether you are certain that you want to delete the file 5 Click Yes to confirm that you want to delete the file Another alert appears warni...

Page 247: ...the specified regions You may not want users to create pages from these templates or copy those pages To learn how to restrict users from creating pages from your templates or copying those pages see...

Page 248: ...ntribute in the blog publishing list even after you configure it check for the following configu ration details in FeedDemon Verify if the Command Line or URL text box displays the correct path to the...

Page 249: ...oard shortcuts for performing Edit menu actions in Contribute Action Shortcut Create a page Control N Open a file on your computer Control O Close draft Control W Edit page Control E Send for review C...

Page 250: ...ontribute Paste as text Control Shift V Clear Delete Select all Control A Find Control F Action Shortcut Open or close sidebar F4 Open Draft Console Control Shift D Open the browser Control Shift B Ba...

Page 251: ...alignment Control Alt Shift L Set center alignment Control Alt Shift C Set right alignment Control Alt Shift R Set justified alignment Control Alt Shift J Indent a paragraph Control Alt Outdent a para...

Page 252: ...ate a paragraph Enter Insert a line break BR Shift Enter Insert a space Spacebar Insert a non breaking space Control Shift Space Move text or object to another place in the page Drag selected item to...

Page 253: ...llowing table lists the keyboard shortcuts for accessing the online help system in Contribute Insert a column Control Shift A Merge selected table cells Control Alt M Split table cell Control Alt S Ac...

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Page 255: ...shortcuts for performing Edit menu actions in Contribute Action Shortcut Create a page Command N Open a file on your computer Command O Close draft Command W Edit page Command Shift E Send for review...

Page 256: ...at menu actions in Contribute Clear Delete Select all Command A Find Command F Action Shortcut Open the browser Command Shift B Open Draft Console Command Shift D Back Option Left Forward Option Right...

Page 257: ...ine selected text Command U Set left alignment Command Option Shift L Set center alignment Command Option Shift C Set right alignment Command Option Shift R Set justified alignment Command Option Shif...

Page 258: ...mmand Shift Space Move text or object to another place in the page Drag selected item to new location Select a word Double click the word Select a paragraph Triple click a word in the paragraph Indent...

Page 259: ...User Guide 253 Working with images The following table lists the keyboard shortcuts for performing image actions in Contribute Action Shortcut Insert an image Command Option I Change image properties...

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Page 261: ...obe Bridge CS3 16 opening files from Adobe Bridge CS3 16 publishingfiles from Adobe Bridge CS3 17 Adobe Contribute Publishing Server See CPS Adobe CS3 applications running startup scripts to integrate...

Page 262: ...es 158 switching to editing 23 toolbars 20 unlinked web page 26 web pages 23 workflow overview 11 workspace 20 bulleted lists creating 93 buttons PayPal about 100 editing 118 inserting multiple 118 in...

Page 263: ...customizing templates 49 D date adding to web page 86 for publishing blog entry 63 date and time setting for blog entries 65 default settings See preferences properties definition lists 94 Delete Book...

Page 264: ...emplate based page 47 text with keyboard shortcuts Macintosh 252 text with keyboard shortcuts Windows 246 toolbars for 20 troubleshooting 233 undoing 40 web page content in external application 52 web...

Page 265: ...152 editing content 153 saving and publishing 154 targeting 152 154 framesets about 151 152 publishing pages 154 FTP connection information 182 connection keys sending 181 troubleshooting 231 user nam...

Page 266: ...49 Format menu 250 Help menu 251 images 253 Insert menu 250 templates 251 View menu 250 keyboard shortcuts Windows blog entries list 245 Edit menu 243 editing text 246 File menu 243 Format menu 244 he...

Page 267: ...inserting 103 110 Flash properties 110 inserting 111 moving 113 properties 112 moving images 105 videos 113 Mozilla Firefox installing plug ins 39 posting blog content 169 MS Office documents converti...

Page 268: ...Contribute CS3 16 plug ins 5 in Adobe Store 7 podcasts 113 port numbers 181 posting blog content from browsers 169 Microsoft Office 170 RSS aggregators 172 241 preferences blog entries 67 role settin...

Page 269: ...ting 231 types of 211 See also permissions Roll Back Page dialog box 166 Rollback feature about 158 troubleshooting 238 using 166 rotating images 109 rows table adding 125 deleting 126 formatting conf...

Page 270: ...up password changing 29 entering 13 startup scripts in Adobe CS3 products integrating Adobe Contribute with Adobe CS3 applications 15 startup speed troubleshooting 230 strikethrough text 90 strong tex...

Page 271: ...ge editing 21 sidebar 21 workspace 19 trackback URLs blog entries 70 tracking drafts 44 troubleshooting Administer Websites dialog box 237 canceling pages 235 connection keys 238 Connection Wizard or...

Page 272: ...ting 240 stand alone creating 63 starter 60 61 static content editing 241 templates 36 47 62 236 text adding 86 troubleshooting editing 233 unlinked viewing 26 updating 159 workflow overview 11 web pa...

Page 273: ...content 169 170 publishing documents 167 Work Offline 50 workflow overview 11 working offline in the Contribute editor 51 workspace browser and editor 19 keyboard only navigation 30 sidebar 21 toolba...

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