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Administering Macromedia Contribute

Course Prerequisites

To gain the most from this class, you should already:

• Have experience using Contribute to maintain websites or have completed the Using Adobe Contribute 4 courseware.
• Have experience building and maintaining websites using Adobe Dreamweaver CS3.
• Be familiar with the set-up and administration of websites and web servers.
• Have experience setting up users, groups, and permissions.
• Be familiar with web pages technologies, such as HTML and CSS.

Course Objectives

After completing this course, you should be able to perform the following tasks:

• Establish a connection to a website in Adobe Contribute.
• Become an Administrator.
• Configure sitewide settings.
• Set web server properties.
• Enable file rollback.
• Maintain users, groups, and roles.
• Specify a group’s file and folder access levels.
• Export connection keys.
• Enable Publishing Services.
• Set up a User Directory for Contributor authentication. Administer new page and styling settings.
• Administer template options.
• Filter styles and hide unwanted CSS styles.
• Enable the use of shared site assets.
• Use Dreamweaver library items.
• Set image options.
• Enable accessibility for the creation of website pages. Enable screen reader support.
• Describe website security and deployment.

Course Outline

Unit 1: Introducing Administering Adobe Contribute 4

• Describe the course format.
• Describe the course objectives and topics.
• List the course prerequisites.
• Describe the Contribute user and administrative features.
• Describe the Contribute roles and responsibilities.

Unit 2: Connecting with Contribute 4

• Plan a website connection.
• Describe the connection strategies.
• Use the Connection Wizard.
• Change Contribute preferences.
• Become an Administrator.
• Adjust sitewide settings.
• Set web server properties.
• Enable rollbacks.

Unit 3: Managing Users and Permissions

• Describe user management.
• Design an approval system.
• Create and edit user roles.
• Create a connection key.
• Distribute a connection key to users.

Unit 4: Using Contribute Publishing Services

• Describe the Contribute Publishing Services.
• Administer Contribute Publishing Services.
• Use the Contribute Publishing Services.
• Specify a user directory.
• Use the approval process.

Unit 5: Setting New Page and Styling Options

• Administer new page settings.
• Control the location of saved pages.
• Administer template options.
• Enable external page source editor.
• Administer styling settings and create a style filter.
• Access page properties.
• Describe best practices for using styles.
• Use design-time style sheets.

Unit 6: Managing Site Assets

• Describe shared asset types.
• Insert shared assets.
• Set image options.
• Enable accessibility.
• Set accessibility options.

Unit 7: Deploying and Maintaining Contribute Managed Sites

• Describe deployment issues.
• Complete deployment tasks.
• Restrict access to administrative folders.
• Use the CPS logging features.
• Use the CPS notification features.
• Remove Contribute and CPS administration from a site.