Basic Technology Overview

• Separating website design and maintenance from ongoing updates to content.
• Maintaining design standards, website functionality and code integrity
• Just enough HTML and CSS to know why you are using Contribute

Understanding the Contibutors Role

• What Contributors can do: browse to choose a page, edit content, then publish
• Simple editing interface for updating content
• Contributor passwords and access levels
• Preview and review options: requesting an email reply to authorise changes
• Understanding the limits of editing: the web designers role

Locating pages to be edited

• Using your connection key to enable website editing
• Choosing pages which need changing by browsing to them
• Usign check-in and check-out to lock a file (preventing concurrent updates to the same page)

Updating content

• Using the word-processor like interface: styles, fonts, colours and sizes
• Drag-and-drop content editing
• Using content from Word, Excel PowerPoint etc.
• Linking to MS Office documents for immediate updating when the MS Office file changes
• Online and off-line editing

Creating New Pages

• Making use of templates and example pages
• Making links between pages and updating navigational aids across the whole website to include additional pages

Publishing changed pages

• Publishing a modified page back to the server
• Publishing a draft and requesting email review before final publication
• Understanding roll-back to earler versions

Using the built-in help

• Overview of the Help panel
• Common erros and what they mean