Adobe Contribute Training: Introduction to Adobe Contribute CS3

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Course Number: 491
Duration: 2 days
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Contribute Training Overview

Adobe Contribute makes it easier for authorized individuals to rapidly publish and change content on your Web site, even if these individuals are non-technical. Contribute facilitates content conversion from Microsoft Word or Excel, enforces site design standards, enables you to roll back undesirable site changes, and allows you to grant specific individuals access to change only certain areas of your Web site.

This Adobe Contribute training course, customized to the needs of your specific group, teaches attendees how to use Contribute to its fullest potential.

Location and Pricing

Most Accelebrate courses are taught on-site at our clients' locations worldwide for groups of 3 or more attendees and are customized to their specific needs. Please visit our client list to see organizations for whom we have recently delivered training. These courses can also be delivered as live, private online classes for groups that are geographically dispersed or wish to save on the instructor's or students' travel expenses. To receive a customized proposal and price quote private training at your site or online, please contact us.

In addition, some courses are available as live, online classes for individuals. To see a schedule of online courses, please visit http://www.accelebrate.com/online_training/adobe.htm.

Contribute Training Prerequisites

No prior experience is presumed.

Hands-on/Lecture Ratio

This Adobe Contribute training class is 70% hands-on, 30% lecture, with the longest lecture segments lasting for 15 minutes. Students "learn by doing," with immediate opportunities to apply the material they learn to real-world problems.

Contribute Training Materials

All students receive a copy of Peachpit Press's Adobe Contribute for Windows or Macintosh: Visual QuickStart Guide and related courseware.

Software Needed on Each PC

Windows or MacOS X computers with at least 1GB RAM
Adobe Contribute CS3 or later
Firefox 2.0 or later or Internet Explorer 6 or later
Adobe Dreamweaver CS3 or later

Contribute Training Objectives

To learn how to create Web pages in Contribute
For Contribute site administrators:

To master setting user permissions to give each editor of the site the appropriate level of permissions for the appropriate pages, supporting files, and directories
To learn how to set up Contribute so that end users can only use the templates and style sheets that you specify

Contribute Training Outline

Introduction to Contribute

Installing Contribute
Understanding the Contribute work space
Getting onscreen help
Understanding Contribute's workflow

Connecting to a Site

Preparing to connect
Using the connection wizard
Sharing site connections
Importing site connection keys
Editing site connections
Working offline

Building Web Pages

Browsing sites
Creating new pages
Building pages from sample pages and Dreamweaver templates
Copying existing pages
Editing existing pages
Setting page properties
Setting page keywords and descriptions
Editing framed pages
Saving page drafts
Letting coworkers review your pages
Publishing your pages
Rolling back to previous page versions
Printing pages
Previewing pages in external browsers
Exporting HTML pages

Editing Page Content

Basic text editing
Using HTML styles
Using CSS styles
Working with lists
Inserting dates
Adding horizontal rules
Inserting special characters
Finding and replacing text
Checking spelling

Working with Images

Adding images to your pages
Adjusting image properties
Editing images
Adding Flash content

Working with Links

About linking
Linking to draft pages
Creating new pages from links
Linking to Web addresses
Creating email links
Linking to local files
Adding and editing anchors
Editing and removing links

Creating Tables

Creating a new table
Inserting rows and columns
Deleting table elements
Formatting tables
Setting table properties
Merging and splitting cells
Setting cell properties
Sorting table contents

Using Dreamweaver Templates

Creating new pages from Dreamweaver templates
Overview of constructing Dreamweaver templates
Working with editable template areas
Setting template properties

Working with External Documents

Using external documents
Importing Word or Excel documents
Editing imported documents
Editing other document types

Site Administration

Becoming an administrator
Assigning site-wide settings
Assigning permissions
Creating permission groups
Modifying permission groups

Managing Sites with Dreamweaver

Updating Dreamweaver for Contribute
Building sites for Contribute
Enabling Dreamweaver settings for Contribute
Sharing connection keys
Using Contribute's rollback features in Dreamweaver

Customizing Contribute

Understanding Contribute extensibility
Creating sample page templates
Customizing the welcome screen
Customizing menus
Customizing keyboard shortcuts

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