Adobe Contribute website management

Overview

Adobe Contribute is the most effective way for web content writers to publish, update and maintain static on-line content. Contribute allows anyone – including those with no HTML or technical experience - to quickly and easily author and publish web content.

This one day course is designed to enable non-technical users to edit an HTML website with confidence, without damaging or needing to know anything about the sites master design, templates, style sheets and coding standards.

Required skills and experience.

Conceptual knowledge of web pages.
Be able to use a web browser.
A good working knowledge of either the Windows or Mac operating systems.

Duration

1 Day.

Standard course price

£275 pp excluding VAT

For more information on pricing please go to my rates page.

Introduction

Overview of how Contribute fits into the web-authoring environment
Separating website design and maintenance from ongoing content updates.
Maintaining design standards, website functionality and code integrity
A brief overview of HTML and CSS

The role of the contributor

What Contributors can do:
- browse to choose a page
- edit content
- publish content

The editing interface

Setting Contributor passwords and access levels
Using preview and review options
Requesting an email reply to authorise changes
Understanding the limits of editing: the web designers role

Finding pages to be edited

Using your connection key to enable website editing
Selecting the pages which need changing
Using check-in and check-out to lock a file to prevent simultaneous updates to the same page.

Creating new pages

Using templates and example pages
Making links between pages
Updating navigational aids across the whole website to include additional pages

Updating content

Using the Contribute interface
Using styles, fonts, colours and sizes
Drag-and-drop content editing
Using content from Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint
Linking to MS Office documents for immediate updating when the MS Office file changes
Online and off-line editing