Adobe Contribute

Adobe Contribute is a WYSIWYG web page editor that is used at �鶹��Ƶ to maintain an increasing number of parts of the �鶹��Ƶ website.

Installing

If you do not have Contribute installed on your College-owned computer and want to use it, please contact the Technology Helpline.

Getting started

If you have Contribute installed on your computer and are ready to jump in, the best place to start is the built-in tutorial. To access the tutorial, take the following steps:

1. Open Contribute.
2. In the menu bar, select Help > Contribute Tutorial

Setting up

Personal homepages

To set up Contribute to maintain your personal homepage, please follow these steps:

1. Open Contribute.
2. In the menu bar, select Edit > My Connections.
3. Click on the button labeled "Create..."
4. A new window will pop up. Click "Next >"
5. Under "What do you want to connect to?" make sure that "Website" is selected. In the box that asks "What is the web address (URL) of your website?" type in the URL to your personal homepage. For your reference, this should be so if your username is fsmash, this should be
6. Click "Next >"
7. Under "How do you connect to your web server?" select "Secure FTP (STFP)".
8. Under "What is the name of your SFTP server?" type ftp.gac.edu
9. Type your �鶹��Ƶ username and password into the other two boxes and click "Next >"
10. Under "On the SFTP server, what folder contains your website?" simply add "www-docs/" to the end of the default text. It should look something like this: /Net/gac/home/f/s/fsmash/www-docs/
11. Click "Next >". Enter your name and email in the corresponding text boxes.
12. Click "Next >". You should now see a summary window with the information you previously filled out. Click "Done" to finish.

Organization website

To set up Contribute to maintain your organization's website, please follow the steps outlined in the student organization websites article.

Department or office website

If you would like to make changes to your department or office website, please contact Web Services via e-mail at web@gustavus.edu.

Saving a connection key

Since the computers in the �鶹��Ƶ labs reset themselves each time you log out, you are forced to recreate a connection to your website each time you want to use Contribute. However, Contribute can save your connections to a file, allowing you to easily restore them later.

To save a connection key:

1. Go to Edit -> Administer Websites -> [Name of your website Connection].
2. Select your name and click "Send Connection Key."
3. Click Next, then click next again.
4. Select "Save to local machine." Choose a password you can remember enter it into the password boxes. Click Next, then click Done.
5. Contribute will ask you where you’d like to save the connection key. Save it in your MyData folder on your home directory.
6. Click Close.

The Contribute connection to your website is now saved. To load your settings the next time you want to work on your website, just go to your home directory and double-click on the connection key you just saved.