Publishing a page

After you finish editing and reviewing a draft, you are ready to publish it to your website. When you publish a draft, Contribute makes it live on your website -- if the page was previously published, Contribute replaces the existing page with the updated page.

You can publish any of the following types of pages to your website:

• Updates to an existing page
• New page, not previously published
• Existing page as a new page

Publishing updates to an existing page

When you publish updates to an existing page, Contribute replaces the currently published version of the page on your website with the new version.

When Contribute publishes your draft, it also publishes any new pages that your draft links to (but not pages that link to your draft). Contribute will prompt you to name any linked pages that haven’t been published before. Publishing all new pages that are linked from the draft helps ensure that you do not have broken links in your website.

Publishing a new page

When you publish a new page to your website, Contribute asks you to name the file for the page and any new pages that the page links to. Then Contribute publishes the new page, and any pages that the new page links to, on your website. Publishing all pages that are linked from the new page helps ensure that you do not have broken links on your website.

If you haven’t added a link on an existing page to your new page, website visitors won’t be able to view the page. Remember to go to an existing web page before (or just after) you publish a new page and add a link to the new page.

Publishing an existing page as a new page

Contribute enables you to update an existing page, then publish it as a new page without overwriting the original page. This feature is similar to the Save As feature in other applications.

Use the Publish as New Page feature to publish the modified page as a new
page on your website. This is possible because when you click Edit Page for an existing page, Contribute creates a copy of the page (known as a draft) for you to edit. Saving changes to the draft does not alter the page on your website.

1. Browse to an existing page, then click the Edit Page button
2. Make changes to the draft
3. Select File > Publish as New Page