Course overview
This course will show you how to maintain web pages which already exist, and create new pages from pre-existing templates. Your role is to keep the content of your website up to date, so the course introduces the sorts of changes you can make to pages, and how to work within the limitations of web pages. You will learn how your connection key grants you permission to work with pages within your responsibility. No web technologies are discussed in detail in this course.

Who should attend
There are no prerequisites for this course, although the ability to surf the internet and brief familiarity with any word processor will be useful. You will not need to know HTML, Dreamweaver/FrontPage or any other web technology.

Course contents
Basic technology overview
Separating website design and maintenance from ongoing updates to content
Maintaining design standards, website functionality and code integrity
Just enough HTML and CSS to know why you are using Contribute

Understanding the contributors role
What contributors can do: browse to choose a page, edit content, then publish
Simple editing interface for updating content
Contributor passwords and access levels
Preview and review options: requesting an email reply to authorise changes
Understanding the limits of editing: the web designers role

Locating pages to be edited
Using your connection key to enable website editing
Choosing pages which need changing by browsing to them
Using check-in and check-out to lock a file (preventing concurrent updates to the same page)

Updating content
Using the word-processor like interface: styles, fonts, colours and sizes
Drag-and-drop content editing
Using content from Word, Excel PowerPoint etc.
Linking to MS Office documents for immediate updating when the MS Office file changes
Online and off-line editing

Creating new pages
Making use of templates and example pages
Making links between pages and updating navigational aids across the whole website to include additional pages
Understanding how to keep download time short

Publishing changed pages
Publishing a modified page back to the server
Publishing a draft and requesting email review before final publication
Understanding roll-back to earlier versions

Using the built-in help
Overview of the Help panel
Common errors and what they mean

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