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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, Aaron Begley, John Francis, Mario Reynoso 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. Third Edition: July 2005 Macromedia, Inc. 601 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 . 35 About working with pages. 36 Editing existing web pages. 39 Saving drafts . 41 Getting drafts and files reviewed by others. 42 Working with pages based on Dreamweaver templates . 48 Using Contribute to work offline . 50 Editing web page content in an external application . 52 Adding Google search functionality to your web page . 53 3 Editing web page source in an external application . 53 Canceling a draft or new page . 54 Deleting a web page . 55 Exporting a Page (Windows only) . 55 Printing a page . 56 CHAPTER 5: Adding Pages and Documents . 57 About converting documents with FlashPaper . 57 Creating or copying a page on your website. 58 Creating a stand-alone web page . 63 Setting page properties . 64 Adding keywords and a description for a page . 65 Converting documents with FlashPaper . 66 Adding Microsoft Word and Excel documents to a website . 71 CHAPTER 6: Working with Text . 73 About HTML and CSS styles in the Contribute Style menu . 73 Adding text to a web page . 74 Changing text appearance on the page. 76 Positioning text on the page. 82 Creating lists . 83 Checking spelling . 88 Finding and replacing text . 89 CHAPTER 7: Working with Images and Graphical Elements . 91 About inserting images and buttons . 92 Adding an image to a page . 93 Inserting shared assets into a web page. 96 Changing image properties . 97 Changing an image’s position or orientation . 98 Editing an image in Contribute. 100 Editing an image in an external application . 104 Inserting Flash content into your web page . 105 Inserting a movie into your web page . 106 Adding and deleting a horizontal rule . 107 Inserting PayPal e-commerce buttons . 109 CHAPTER 8: Working with Tables . 111 About conflicts in table formatting . 111 Inserting a table on a page . 112 Selecting table elements. 113 Resizing tables, rows, and columns . 115 Aligning tables. 116 Cutting, copying, and pasting cells . 117 Adding, deleting, and merging table rows and columns. 119 Modifying table appearance. 121 Sorting tabular data. 126 4 Contents CHAPTER 9: Working with Links . 127 Creating text and image links . 127 Setting the advanced linking options . 137 Editing links . ..