Contribute – Mac Settings
Modify Settings
Click Contribute
Once you connect to the
website, you can modify its
settings.
From the menu bar choose:
1. Contribute
2. Administer Websites
3. Select name and URL
of your site
Select URL
Administer
Websites
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Contribute – Mac Settings
Initial Contribute
Settings
1. Select Dreamweaverstyle editing
2. Click Yes
Select
Dreamweaver
Style Editing
Click Yes
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Contribute – Mac Settings
Administer Website
Edit Role
Settings
In the left window, select:
Users and Roles
In the right window, select:
1. Select Administrator
2. Click Edit Roll
Settings
Select
Administrator
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Contribute – Mac Settings
Edit “Administrator”
Settings
In the left window, select:
Editing
Click Editing
In the right window:
1. Check “Require ALT
text for
images(improves
website accessibility)
Check Require ALT text for
images
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Contribute – Mac Settings
Edit “Administrator”
Settings
In the left window, select:
Styles and Fonts
In the right window:
Uncheck
Select Styles
and Fonts
1. Uncheck “Include CSS
styles in the Style
menu”
2. Uncheck “Allow users
to apply fonts and
sizes(displays the
Font and Size menu)
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Uncheck
Contribute – Mac Settings
Edit “Administrator”
Settings
Click Edit
In the left window, select:
File Placement
Setting File Placement rules
for images:
File Placement
In the right window:
1. Select “All Images”
2. Click on Edit
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Select All
Images
Contribute – Mac Settings
File Placement Rule
Select Specific folder
on your website
1. Select Specific folder
on your website
2. Click Choose
Click Choose
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Contribute – Mac Settings
Choose Folder
Select folder with
the site’s URL
1. Select folder with the
site’s URL
2. Click Open
Click Open
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Contribute – Mac Settings
Choose Folder
1. Select the “images”
folder
2. Click Open
Select Images
Click Open
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Contribute – Mac Settings
Choose Folder
1. Click “Select images”
Click Select
Images
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Contribute – Mac Settings
File Placement Rule Window
1. Click OK
File Placement for
Documents
The settings for Microsoft
and PDF documents use the
same steps:
File Placement window:
1. Select “All Microsoft
and PDF files”
2. Click Edit
File Placement Rule window:
1. Select “Specific
folder on website”
2. Click Choose
Choose Folder window:
1. Select folder with
site’s URL
2. Click Open
3. Select “documents”
4. Click Open
5. Click “Select
documents”
File Placement Rule window:
1. Click OK
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Click Ok
Contribute – Mac Settings
Edit Administrator
Settings:
1. When you are
finished editing the
file placement
settings, click OK
Click Ok
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Contribute – Mac Settings
Edit “Administrator”
Settings window
Left Hand window, select:
New Images
Right Hand window, select:
1. Set Max width to 200
pixels
2. Click OK
Select New
Images
Set Max
Width to 200
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Contribute – Mac Settings
Administer Website
Users and Rolls
1. You are now back at
the Administer
Website window
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Contribute – Mac Settings
Administer Website
Left hand window, select:
Rollbacks
Right hand window:
1. Check “Enable
Rollbacks”
Check Enable
Rollbacks
Select Rollbacks
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Contribute – Mac Settings
Administer Website
Left hand window, select:
New Pages
Right hand window:
1. Default endcoding:
a. Select UTF-8
from the
drop down
2. Default file extension
type in: html
Select UTF-8
Select New
Pages
Type in html
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Contribute – Mac Settings
Administer Website
window
Users and Rolls
1. Click Close
Click Close
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Contribute – Mac Settings
Alert Box
1. Click Yes to leave the
Administrator
password empty
Click Yes
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Contribute – Mac Settings
Optional – How to
change the name of
a website connection
Select Site
Connect to the website.
From the menu bar choose:
1. Contribute
2. My Connections
My Connections window
1. Select Website
2. Click Rename
3. Type in new website
name
4. Click Close
Click Rename
New Website Name
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