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Contribute uses a browse-edit-publish workflow to help you easily find the web page or blog entry to edit, make changes to it, and then update the web page or blog entry on your website or blog server.
Note: You must connect to a website before you can edit and publish pages on that website, and you must connect to a blog server before you can edit and publish entries in that blog.
The following overview describes the Contribute workflow:
1. Browse to a page or blog entry.
Use the Contribute browser to find the web page or blog entry you want to edit. The browser will be familiar to users of Microsoft Internet Explorer and other popular browsers. The browser toolbar has the normal navigation buttons plus a Choose button to help you navigate to files that aren't linked on your website. You can create bookmarks in Contribute and view your Internet Explorer bookmarks. You can also use shortcuts to view current drafts quickly.
2. Edit your content.
After you browse to the desired page or blog entry, click the Edit Page or Edit Entry button in the toolbar to open the web page or blog entry in the Contribute editor. Contribute copies the file from your web or blog server and locks it on the server so that no one else can edit the page or blog entry while you're working on it.
The Contribute editor works much like a word processor. You can edit text, images, tables, and links on the page or blog entry, and you can even add Microsoft Word or Excel documents to your website or blog entry. The toolbar contains familiar editing buttons as well as buttons for saving, discarding, or publishing your edits.
3. Publish the changes.
When you finish editing your page or blog entry, you can publish the page or blog entry to your website or blog server. Click the Publish button, and Contribute replaces the existing page or blog entry on your web server or blog with the edited version. Contribute also unlocks the file on the server so other users can edit the page or blog entry.
Note: In Contribute, the permissions for the role you belong to determine whether you can publish web pages. If you cannot publish web pages, use the Send for Review option to transfer the draft to another user. Depending on the protocols that your blog server supports, you may be limited in the type of content you can publish in your blog entries.