Using and Administering Contribute
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Using and Administering Contribute Trademarks Add Life to the Web, Afterburner, Aftershock, Andromedia, Allaire, Animation PowerPack, Aria, Attain, Authorware, Authorware Star, Backstage, Bright Tiger, Clustercats, ColdFusion, Contribute, Design In Motion, Director, Dream Templates, Dreamweaver, Drumbeat 2000, EDJE, EJIPT, Extreme 3D, Fireworks, Flash, Flash Lite, Flex, Fontographer, FreeHand, Generator, HomeSite, JFusion, JRun, Kawa, Know Your Site, Knowledge Objects, Knowledge Stream, Knowledge Track, LikeMinds, Lingo, Live Effects, MacRecorder Logo and Design, Macromedia, Macromedia Action!, Macromedia Breeze, Macromedia Flash, Macromedia M Logo and Design, Macromedia Spectra, Macromedia xRes Logo and Design, MacroModel, Made with Macromedia, Made with Macromedia Logo and Design, MAGIC Logo and Design, Mediamaker, Movie Critic, Open Sesame!, Roundtrip, Roundtrip HTML, Shockwave, Sitespring, SoundEdit, Titlemaker, UltraDev, Web Design 101, what the web can be, and Xtra are either registered trademarks or trademarks of Macromedia, Inc. and may be registered in the United States or in other jurisdictions including internationally. 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Part Number ZCT30M200 Acknowledgments Project Management: Jennifer Rowe Writing: Chris Bedford, Jennifer Rowe Managing Editor: Rosana Francescato Editing: Mary Kraemer, Barbara Milligan, Lisa Stanziano, Anne Szabla Production Management: Patrice O’Neill Media Design and Production: Adam Barnett, Christopher Basmajian, Aaron Begley, John Francis Special thanks to Ken Sundermeyer, Eric Lerner, Chris Denend, Joel Huff, Lawson Hancock, Erik Larson, Sheila McGinn, Emilio Passi, Yoko Bayer, Scott Richards, Melissa Baerwald, Deb Galdes, Kimberly Oslob, Dennis Griffin, Jon Varese, Brady Kroupa, Josh Margulis, Gavin Anderson, Deeje Cooley, Vickie Chapman, Kaori McLister, and the Contribute engineering and QA teams. First Edition: July 2004 Macromedia, Inc. 600 Townsend St. San Francisco, CA 94103 CONTENTS PART I: Using Contribute CHAPTER 1: Welcome to Macromedia Contribute . 11 Website development and maintenance overview . 11 Contribute resources . 12 Where to start . 14 CHAPTER 2: Getting Started . 15 The Contribute workflow . 15 Setup requirements . 16 Installing and starting Contribute . 16 Connecting to a website . 17 Starting Contribute without a network connection . 18 CHAPTER 3: Exploring the Contribute Workspace . 21 The Contribute workspace . 22 Switching between browsing and editing. 25 Browsing to web pages. 26 Opening pages without browsing . 26 Setting up access to commonly used pages. 28 Setting Contribute preferences . 30 Changing or disabling the Contribute startup password . 31 Setting browser encoding. 31 Using Contribute accessibility features . 32 CHAPTER 4: Working with Pages . 37 About working with pages. 38 Editing existing web pages. 41 Saving drafts . 43 Getting drafts reviewed by others . 44 Working with pages based on Dreamweaver templates . 49 Using Contribute to work offline . 51 Editing web page content in an external application . 53 Adding Google search functionality to your web page . 54 3 Editing web page source in an external application . 54 Canceling a draft or new page . 55 Deleting a web page . 56 Exporting a Page (Windows only) . 56 Printing a page . 57 CHAPTER 5: Adding Pages and Documents . 59 About FlashPaper documents . 59 Creating or copying a page on your website. 60 Creating a stand-alone web page . 66 Setting page properties . 66 Adding keywords and a description for a page . 68 Converting documents with FlashPaper . 68 Adding Microsoft Word and Excel documents to a website . 73 CHAPTER 6: Working with Text . 77 About HTML and CSS styles in the Contribute Style menu . 77 Adding text to a web page . 78 Changing text appearance on the page. 80 Positioning text on the page. 86 Creating lists . 88 Checking spelling . 93 Finding and replacing text . 93 CHAPTER 7: Working with Images and Graphical Elements . 95 About inserting images and buttons . 96 Adding an image to a page . 97 Inserting shared assets into a web page. 100 Changing image properties . 102 Adding or adjusting a border around an image . 103 Changing an image’s position or orientation . 103 Editing an image in Contribute. 104 Editing an image in an external application . 108 Inserting Flash content into your web page . 109 Inserting a movie into your web page . 110 Adding and deleting a horizontal rule . 112 Inserting PayPal e-commerce buttons . 113 CHAPTER 8: Working with Tables . 117 About conflicts in table formatting . 117 Inserting a table on a page . 118 Selecting table elements. 119 Resizing tables, rows, and columns . 121 Aligning tables. 122 Cutting, copying, and pasting cells . 123 Adding, deleting, and merging table rows and columns. 125 Modifying table appearance. 127 Sorting tabular data. 132 4 Contents CHAPTER 9: Working with Links . 133 Creating text and image links . ..