Contribute CS5 / CS4 Essentials: $335

An overview of contribute

• — What is Contribute
• — The Contribute Workflow
• — User roles and access to tools

The interface /program lay out

• — The Start / Welcome screen
• — Managing the workspace
• — Panels incl. ‘Pages’ and ‘How do I’ panels
• — The Document Toolbar
• — The Address Bar - open a page on your site
• — Navigating to pages on your site via links in your pages
• — Setting program preferences (Preferences dialog box)

Making a site connection

• — About site connections
• — Using a connection key
• — Set up a site without a connection key
• — Creating and editing pages
• — Bookmarking frequently edited pages

Creating new pages

• • — Starter pages
  • — Predefined Dreamweaver templates
  • — An existing page
• — Editing an existing page in your site
• — Setting page properties
• — Working Offline
• — Manually saving pages
• — Previewing pages in an external browser (before publishing)

Creating search engine friendly pages

• — Overview of SEO / help visitors find your pages.
• — Creating search friendly titles
• — Setting keywords for a page
• — Setting descriptions for a page

Editing pages in an external application

• — Set up file editing preferences
• — Edit pages in an external editor

Adding external page functionality

• — Inserting PayPal and Shopping cart functionality
• — Inserting a Google search field

Publishing pages

• — Sending pages for review by email
• — Sending pages to other Contribute users for review and / or edit
• — Undo a sent draft
• — Reviewing and / or editing other users draft pages
• — Using the Draft Console
• — Rolling back to a previous version of a page

Working with text

• — Inserting and editing text
• — About HTML styles vs CSS styling
• — Applying heading levels
• — Changing font type and creating font lists
• — Setting font size
• — Lists - bulleted and numbered
• — Indent and outdent text and bullets
• — Changing text and highlight colour
• — Inserting automatic dates
• — Inserting special characters

Using CSS styles

• — About CSS styles
• — Apply predefined CSS styles
• — Create your own CSS styles

Spell checking and proofing

• — Setting spelling preferences
• — Correct a flagged misspelt word
• — Add a word to the custom dictionary
• — Run a manual spell check
• — Find and Replace

Working with images

• — Making your site accessible
• — Image formats for the web
• — Set image editing preferences
• — Inserting images from your computer or website
• — Inserting images from ‘shared assets’
• — Adjusting image properties
• — Editing an image in an external program
• — Insert images from Bridge

Working with Flash and movie content

• — About Flash formats
• — Insert a flash file
• — Edit Flash file properties
• — Inserting movie files in different formats

Working with links

• — Overview of link types and link paths
• — Linking to site pages, files on your computer, PDF’s and external sites
• — Opening links in new windows
• — Creating email links
• — Editing and removing links
• — Adding and link to a specific location in a page

Working with tables

• — Tables vs css layout
• — Creating new tables
• — Selecting table elements
• — Modify table, row, column and cell properties
• — Resizing columns and rows
• — Adding and deleting table elements
• — Inserting rows and columns
• — Delete a column or row
• — Merging and splitting cells
• — Setting table alignment
• — Formatting tables
• — Sorting table contents

Working with external documents

• — Preferences for working with external files
• — Importing MS Word or MS Excel files (Windows and Mac)
• — Creating and inserting PDF’s

Using contribute for blogging

• — About Blogs
• — Connect to your blogging site
• — Editing your blog