Course Outline
Offered by Networked Information Services

Instructor: Ron Yeany (Contact: www.bu.edu/webcentral/help/)
2 hours (40 minutes lecture, 55 minutes hands-on exercises, 10-minute break)

Overview

1. What is Contribute?
2. Why use Contribute?

Site administration: Dreamweaver MX

1. Enabling Compatibility
2. Check In/Check Out
3. Design Notes
4. Site Root URL
5. Accessing the Admin Panel

Hands-on exercise: Site administration with Dreamweaver MX

1. Connect to practice site through the Site Definition Wizard in Dreamweaver MX
   1. During wizard, enable Check In / Check Out
   2. After wizard, enable Design Notes
2. Access advanced site definition panel and enable Contribute compatibility
3. Click the Administer web site to access the Contribute admin panel

Site administration: Contribute only

1. Creating a new site
2. Importing a site
3. Editing a site
4. Renaming/removing sites
5. Enabling/disabling sites

Hands-on: Site administration with Contribute only

1. Start Macromedia Contribute.
2. Step through wizard to create a new site.
3. Connect to the same site you connected to during the Dreamweaver MX administration section.
4. Access the My Connections dialogue box and identify various functions.
5. Access the Administer web sites dialogue box and identify various functions.

Permission groups

1. Guidelines/Recommendations
2. Creating a New Group
3. Duplicating Groups
4. Deleting Groups

Hands-on: Permission groups

1. Access the Administration area of your site. If you typically use Dreamweaver, do so with Dreamweaver. Otherwise, do so with Contribute. It doesn't matter which one, they work the same.
2. Click the new group button.
3. Create a new permissions group and give it the name "news".
4. Highlight and delete the "users" group (this is a generic, default group created by Contribute/DW).

Managing permissions

1. General
2. File/Folder Access
3. Editing/Spacing
4. Styles and Fonts
5. New Pages
6. New Images

Hands-on: Managing permissions

1. Access the Administration area of your site with either Dreamweaver or Contribute.
2. Highlight the "news" permissions group created earlier and click Edit Group.
3. Set access for files and folders to only the news folder and subfolders.
4. Set access for editing/spacing:
   1. Allow only text editing and formatting
   2. Two line paragraph spacing (uses <p> tags)
   3. Allow multiple consecutive spaces
   4. Enforce accessibility
   5. Use strong and em in place of bold and italic
   6. Line break type: UNIX
5. Set access for styles/fonts:
   1. In "Styles" section turn all 3 checkboxes ON
   2. In "Fonts" section turn all checkboxes and options OFF
6. Set access for new pages:
   1. Allow users to create a copy of current page
   2. Allow users to use only the "news story" page template

Connection keys

1. What are connection keys?
2. Creating a key
3. Assign a permission group
4. Exporting a key
5. Summary information
6. E-mailing the key

Hands-on: Connection keys

1. Access the site admin area and click the button to Send Connection Key.
2. Select YES to use current settings.
3. Turn OFF the option to "include my FTP login and password".
4. Assign the key recipient to the "news" permissions group.
5. Export the key and choose the option to "save to local machine".
6. Choose a unique password or passphrase. Write it down so you remember it.
7. Review your summary information.
8. Save the key to your c:/temp directory.
9. Test your key by double-clicking on it, supplying your passphrase/word, and continue through wizard while the site is set up.

Sitewide settings

1. Administrator e-mail
2. Administrator password
3. Rollbacks

Hands-On: Sitewide settings

1. Access your admin panel and identify the functions for:
   1. administrator e-mail
   2. administrator password
2. Activate page rollbacks.
3. Set rollbacks at 3 previous pages.

Getting help

1. Contribute help
2. Vendor online help
3. Local help (site admin and WebCentral)