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Contribute for Content Providers
 
 
    Overview
 
 
    Getting Started
 
 
 
    Interface
 
 
 
    Editing/Browsing
 
 
 
 
 
    Working with Content
 
 
 
 
 
 
    Working with Pages
 
 
 
 
 
 
    Review & Publish
 
 
 
    Supplemental
 
 
    Getting Help
 
 
 

Outline

Overview

  • What is Contribute?
  • Why use Contribute?

Getting Started

  • Connecting to a website
  • Using a connection key
  • Hands-On

Interface

  • Browser/Editor window
  • Toolbars
  • Sidebar

Editing/Browsing

  • Browsing to page/simple editing
  • Simple publishing of page
  • Drafts and unpublished pages
  • Bookmarking frequently-edited pages
  • Hands-On

Working with Content

  • Formatting text
    • Styles (font, size, color)
    • Text alignment
    • Indenting
    • Lists
    • Spellchecking
    • Finding and replacing text
  • Creating Links
    • Text and image links
    • Advanced link options
    • Editing links
    • Testing links
  • Images
    • Adding an image to a page
    • Editing an image
    • Resizing an image
    • Moving/aligning images
  • Tables
    • Inserting a table
    • Rows and columns
    • Cut/copy/paste cells
    • Add/delete/merge rows/columns
  • Importing
    • Importing text
    • Importing Word
    • Importing Excel
  • Hands-On

Working with Pages

  • New pages
  • Template pages
  • Canceling a draft or new page
  • Deleting a web page
  • Printing a page
  • Hands-On

Reviewing & Publishing

  • Previewing a page
  • Publishing a page
    • Updates to an existing page
    • A new page
    • Publishing a copy of an existing page
  • Hands-On

Supplemental Materials (not covered in class)

  • E-mail draft review
  • Rollback to previous version

Getting Help

  • Contribute help
  • Vendor online help
  • Local and WebCentral help


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