User manual MACROMEDIA CONTRIBUTE

[. . . ] Contribute Manual · · Using Templates with Contribute Navigating to web pages Creating a new page from a Template o Editable Regions o Optional Regions Editing existing web pages Editing page elements not in editable areas Using Cascading Style Sheets in Contribute Adding Word and Excel documents to a website Working with tables in Contribute Making hyperlinks with Contribute Adding an image to a page Adding keywords and a description for a page Saving Drafts Canceling a draft or new page Publishing Your Page · · · · · · · · · · · Using Templates with Contribute How templates work A developer makes a template in Dreamweaver by creating a page and adding content that he/she wants to be present on all pages that use the template. A simple template might only contain a table with the logo and a background color for the page. A more complex template may have a full navigation system in place, additional content across the top of the page, and a footer containing copyright information along the bottom. The power of templates, though, lies in the various methods of editing or modifying certain sections of the page. [. . . ] You can do this by selecting all the cells in the row or column or if you place your cursor at the very right or top edge along the table, it will turn into an arrow that will select the row or column when clicked. Click on the Format Table button in the toolbar or choose Table > Format Table. The Basic tab will show previews of the color schemes available to you. The Advanced tab will allow you to change the row color, text style and text alignment for each of the row types. Sorting a table Contribute also has sorting options for the data in your table. You can sort tables alphabetically or numerically, ascending or descending and then sub sort within another column. In the dialog box that opens, choose the column number that you want to sort, choose alphabetically or numerically and ascending or descending. If you wish to sub sort by another column, enter the settings in the 'Then by' fields. There are check boxes that allow you to include headers and hooters and other options. Click Apply to test the options and click OK when you are satisfied with the table. Making hyperlinks with Contribute One reason the World Wide Web is easy to use is because it allows you to easily link from your page to any other web page with a single click. A link, technically called a hyperlink, is a small instruction added to the page that tells the browser to go to the specified page when someone clicks on the link. Making links is easy, and this document explains the different kinds of links and how to make them in Macromedia Contribute. Basic Link Types There are 3 basic types of links on the web: · · · Links to other pages on your web site. These are called absolute links because you need to specify the full address to the site. These links will open up a new email window with the person's address already filled in. It is a matter of selecting the text or image that you want to make the link and then telling Contribute where you want to go with that link. Other objects can be links, but you want to make it obvious that your object is a link. This is why text is blue and underlined and the cursor changes into a hand. Click on the Link button and select Drafts and Recent Pages. Linking to Drafts and Recent Pages Drafts are Contribute pages that you are working on but have yet to publish. They will show up in the Places Window in the top left corner of Contribute. Recent pages are just that: pages that you have visited recently, like a history list. [. . . ] The web address is the location where Contribute saves the pages on your website. Contribute publishes the draft (and any new pages it links to) to your website, then displays it in the Contribute browser. In the new page you're editing, click the Publish button in the toolbar. Filename should be lowercase and not contain any special characters or spaces. [. . . ]