After creating your connection, you can now create or edit pages on your website. As you open the connection, you will find that Contribute operates much like a web browser. Use back, forward and refresh the way you would in a browser. Notice you can enter any URL address too.

Using Contribute you can actually visit any site on the Internet. However, when you go to your school site or pages, with the proper permission and connections, you can edit the pages on the site or create new pages for the site. If your computer has a current connection to the school web server, instead of a Connect button, you will see the following buttons:

If you choose either, the browser interface will change to an editing interface allowing you to edit much like Microsoft Word or other word processors.

Notice the Link, Image and Table buttons.

Links:         

To create links, first highlight the text or graphic/picture and then click on the link button. You should see this menu of choices:

• Drafts and recent pages are pages you have saved for later or pages you have recently published.
• Create New Page allows you to start a new page on your site.
• Browse to a webpage allows you to link to any site anywhere on the web.

• Email address allows mail links
• File on My Computer links to files you want to be available for downloading such as PDFs or Word documents.

Images:       

To add pictures, click on the Image button. You should see this menu:

Images from your computer will be images saved to your computer. Images from Website will be images already transfered to your site. Try not to "upload" the same image more than one time. After you have publised a page with an image, choose from Website to use that image again.

Images should be prepared ahead of time in photo edititng software. 110 x 110 is a good size for small images. Size limit should be 300 x 300 pixels on a normal page. The actual limits are 700 x 700 but this fill an entire page and sould not normally be used.

Tables:

To add a table, decide the number of rows and columns before you start.

Change the border thickness to 0 to create an invisible frame for your pictures or text.

Tables are good for adding place holders to your pages. Try creating a table with an image on one side and text on the other to add interest to your page.

Sample with borders so you can see them:

Upcoming Book Fair
This might be an article about the many choices of books available at the upcoming book fair, reminding students to bring in extra spending money for the important things like book covers, pencils and other accessories available.
October 25- 27, 2005		Parents can send in plastic grocery bags to help with bookfair purchases

Sample with borders set to 0:

Upcoming Book Fair
This might be an article about the many choices of books available at the upcoming book fair, reminding students to bring in extra spending money for the important things like book covers, pencils and other accessories available.
October 25- 27, 2005		Parents can send in plastic grocery bags to help with bookfair purchases

Using Styles from Style Sheets

Notice the font tools found on the toolbar.

Clicking on the first tab (Usually labeled Normal) will allow you access the styles used on your templates. You will find a number of styles from which to choose. Some are easy to use and some are more difficult.

To choose a style, scroll up or down the list and click on the style of your choice. When you return, the same style will continue to be applied to your text as you type. Click on the style button again to switch to a new style.

Some font areas will be controlled by the stylesheets assigned from the template you chose.

When you type into the main cell body, the text will begin with one style. If you add a return, notice that the text may change. This is the default paragraph font. To continue the Main Topic Style on the next line, hold down the shift as you return.

Try to maintain a consistent font scheme throughout your site. Use consistant templates for your site. In other words, if you chose a template from the Education folder for your home page then use other templates from the Education folder for your other pages.