To prepare your website to be edited by Contribute users, structure the site appropriately.
Create the folders that Contribute users should use for their pages, create index pages for those folders, and add basic navigation to the pages. You might want to create user-specific folders for users to practice in. You might also want to create CSS style sheets that define the styles for each page or folder. You can do some of this setup work in Contribute, but its easier to set up a site using Dreamweaver.
In addition, you can create templates that Contribute users can use to create new pages (see Creating templates for a Contribute site).
The following suggestions may help you create a site that Contribute users can easily contribute to:
Dont nest folders too deeply. Group related items together in a folder.
For more information, see Enabling Contribute users to access templates without root folder access.
For example, if Contribute users will be providing pages containing meeting minutes, you can create a folder in the site root folder named meeting_minutes, and create an index page in that folder. Then you can provide a link from your sites main page to the index page for meeting minutes. A Contribute user can then navigate to that index page and create a new page of minutes for a specific meeting, linked from that page; the new page is automatically created inside the meeting_minutes folder.
If the Contribute users working on your site use a standard set of styles in Microsoft Word, name your CSS styles with the same names as the corresponding Word styles, so that Contribute can map the styles when a user copies information from a Word document and pastes it into a Contribute page.
For example, if you use a style named RightJustified in a page but you dont want Contribute users to be able to use that style, rename the style to mmhide_RightJustified.
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Contribute recognizes CSS styles and allows users to apply them.
Contribute users can then bookmark that page and use it to navigate to the include files and edit them.