Macromedia Contribute: training for professionals and contributors

We offer separate courses for a) web site professionals and b) content contributors.

Both courses feature on our Schedule but equally they can be run on a customised basis.

Contribute for Professionals

Duration: 1 day introduction

Technology Overview
Separating website design and maintenance from ongoing updates to content
Levels of control: templates, library items, CSS or HTML options and text-only editing
Using Contribute with Dreamweaver, FrontPage, Homesite, HotMetal Pro, GoLive, Notepad and any other HTML editing software

Understanding the Contibutors Role
What Contrubutors can do: browse to choose a page, edit content, then publish
Simple editing interface for updating content
Contributor passords and access levels
Preview and review options: requesting an email reply to authorise changes

Maintaining site integrity
Controlling your website's style and layout
Managing access and site permissions
Maintaining design standards, website functionality and code integrity

Using Contribute with Dreamweaver MX
Using the free Dreamweaver MX update to administer Contribute sites from within Dreamweaver MX

Macromedia Contribute for Content Contributors

Duration: 1 day introduction

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 Contributor's 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
Using 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 earlier versions

Using the built-in help
Overview of the Help panel
Common errors and what they mean