User manual MACROMEDIA CONTRIBUTE-USING CONTRIBUTE

[. . . ] Using Contribute Macromedia Contribute TM Trademarks Afterburner, AppletAce, Attain, Attain Enterprise Learning System, Attain Essentials, Attain Objects for Dreamweaver, Authorware, Authorware Attain, Authorware Interactive Studio, Authorware Star, Authorware Synergy, Backstage, Backstage Designer, Backstage Desktop Studio, Backstage Enterprise Studio, Backstage Internet Studio, Contribute, Design in Motion, Director, Director Multimedia Studio, Doc Around the Clock, Dreamweaver, Dreamweaver Attain, Drumbeat, Drumbeat 2000, Extreme 3D, Fireworks, Flash, Fontographer, FreeHand, FreeHand Graphics Studio, Generator, Generator Developer's Studio, Generator Dynamic Graphics Server, Knowledge Objects, Knowledge Stream, Knowledge Track, Lingo, Live Effects, Macromedia, Macromedia M Logo & Design, Macromedia Contribute, Macromedia Flash, Macromedia Xres, Macromind, Macromind Action, MAGIC, Mediamaker, Object Authoring, Power Applets, Priority Access, Roundtrip HTML, Scriptlets, SoundEdit, ShockRave, Shockmachine, Shockwave, Shockwave Remote, Shockwave Internet Studio, Showcase, Tools to Power Your Ideas, Universal Media, Virtuoso, Web Design 101, Whirlwind and Xtra are trademarks of Macromedia, Inc. and may be registered in the United States or in other jurisdictions including internationally. Other product names, logos, designs, titles, words or phrases mentioned within this publication may be trademarks, servicemarks, or tradenames of Macromedia, Inc. or other entities and may be registered in certain jurisdictions including internationally. [. . . ] The link appears in your draft. Linking to a new page You can create a link to a new web page on your website--that is, you can create a link to a new page that Contribute creates at the same time that it creates the link. Note: The new page appears on your website when you publish the draft with the link. For example, if you are working on a page about your products, and need to create a link to a page about a new product, but the page doesn't exist yet, Contribute enables you to create the new page and link to it before you add content to the page. Creating a link and the new page at the same time, and then adding content to the page later is the preferred way to add a new page to your website. (The other way to add a new page to your website is to create the page first, then link it later. For more information, see "Creating or copying a page on your website" on page 45). It's a good idea to create a link to a new page at the same time 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 the page on your website. 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 an image in the draft. 2 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. Working with Links 103 · Right-click, then select Insert Link. The Insert Link dialog box appears. 3 Click the Create New Page button at the top of the dialog box, if it is not already selected. Enter link text in the Link text text box, if you did not select text or an image on your draft. This is the text a website visitor will click to go to another page. Note: This text box is not available if you selected text or an image on the draft. 4 5 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. 6 In the Create new page from section, do one of the following: · Select Blank Web Page to create a blank page. · Select a page in the Sample Web Pages folder to create a copy of a pre-existing sample page that you can use as a starting point for your web page. Samples include a Meeting Note, Contact Page, Home Page, Favorite Links Page, and sample image pages and text pages. 104 Chapter 9 · Select a page in the Templates folder to create a new page based on a Macromedia Dreamweaver template (see Help > Using Dreamweaver in Dreamweaver MX), or based on a page on your website that the website administrator designated as a template. A template provides a starting point for your page and can provide a consistent look across your website. When you select a page type, a page preview and a description appear. Note: If your website administrator has restricted the types of new pages that you can create, then you might not see all of these options when you create a page. For more information, see your website administrator or see "Setting permissions for new web pages" on page 177. 7 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. 8 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. 9 Click OK. Contribute adds the link to your draft, then opens the new page in the Contribute editor. Note: Contribute automatically saves the new page in the same folder as the draft that links to it (unless you selected another website in Step 5). You can change the folder location for the new page then if you need to. Tip: To return to the page where you inserted the link, click its title in the Pages panel. Linking to a page on your website or on another website You can create a link on a page to another page on your website or on another website. Use this option to link to any web page that is not a draft or recently published page. If you want to link to a page on your website that was recently published or is a draft, see "Linking to a draft or recently published page on your website" on page 102. To create a link to a page on your website or on another website: 1 In your draft, do one of the following to indicate where the link will appear: · Place the insertion point in the draft. [. . . ] Contribute works around your dynamic document code, and provides tools to protect those parts of your web pages and your website that should not be edited by Contribute users. The Contribute browser is a full-featured web browser that lets users view dynamic pages, enter data into forms, and submit those forms. Contribute also supports new pages and templates that include dynamic elements. For example, you can create a template that includes ColdFusion tags for initialization, includes, counters, and dynamic data elements. [. . . ]