Setting Up Contribute 4
The Setup
Contribute uses a browse-edit-publish workflow to help you 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 steps below will cover how to connect to a website using Contribute.
If Contribute 4 is not installed on the machine being used for web editing, please contact your local administrator and direct them to the California State University, Northridge Information Technology Software Downloads page - which is found at the following URL:
https://www.csun.edu/itr/downloads/index.cgi
Instructions on how to install Contribute 4 can be found once you authenticate to the site. For any additional help with getting access to the Information Technology Software Downloads site, please contact the University Helpdesk by phone at 818-677-1400, or by email at helpdesk@csun.edu.
Launching the Contribute 4 Application
- Launch Contribute 4 by going to <Start>, <All Programs>, <Adobe>, then select <Adobe Contribute 4>.
Creating A Website Connection
- Select <Create Connection> in Contribute Toolbar.
- Select <Next> in Create Connection Window.
- For the section labeled “What You Want To Connect To?”, select <Website>, if not selected. For the section labeled “What is the web address (URL) of your website?”, type http://www.csun.edu/~[CSUN Login ID],where [CSUN Login ID] is the value of your CSUN Login ID. In this example, the user’s CSUN Login ID is hasp. Once you have entered in the correct information, select <Next>.
- For the section labeled “How do you connect to your web server?” , select <Local/Network>.
- For the section labeled “What is the network path to your website?”, select <Choose> to navigate to your public_html folder on your Webdrive. Note: If you aren't sure if you have a Webdrive active or not, please refer to the section in the online reference guide entitled Guide To Establishing Faculty Web Presence - Using The Webdrive.
- Navigate to your public_html folder on your Webdrive. Select <Computer>, <W: webdrive>, then <public_html>. Once you have selected <public_html>, then select <Select>.
- Once you have selected your public_html folder for the network path to your website, in the Create Connection Window select <Next>.
- Fill in the information accordingly for your User Information, then select <Next>.
- Select <Administrator> for the value of “What role is assigned to you?”. Select <Next> once you have filled in the value.
- You have now completed the process of creating a connection to your website. Select <Done>.
- By default, when you create a connection, the process looks for a file labeled index.html. If you do not have that file in your public_html folder or you currently have one, please remember that we want to edit the Faculty Bio template. The Faculty Bio Template was saved as new_index.html. Note: For instructions on how to save the Faculty Bio template, refer to the online guide entitled Utilizing The Faculty Bio Page. Lets open it up to get started with editing.
User Information
Finishing the Setup
Change http://www.csun.edu/~[CSUN Login ID]/index.html to http://www.csun.edu/~[CSUN Login ID]/newindex.html. In this example, CSUN Login ID is ati.
Display of newindex.html page in Contribute.
