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.

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 >". Contribute may now give you a warning. Ignore this and click "OK".
12. Click "Next >" again.
13. Select "Publisher" and click "Next >"
14. Finally, click "Done" and you have successfully set up your Contribute site!