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Setting up Contribute

Your first tasks as an administrator for a Contribute website are to set up a connection to your website, create permission groups, set editing permissions for each group you create, and distribute a connection key that allows users to easily connect to your website.

To deploy Contribute:

  1. Install Contribute on your computer.
  2. Create a connection to your website. (See Creating and Managing Website Connections.)
  3. Decide who in your organization needs to be able to update the website’s content.
  4. Create groups of users, called permission groups, and specify what the members of each group can do. (See Managing User Settings and Permissions.)
  5. Depending on your organization’s needs, you may need to create only a single permission group; or you may need to create several groups, giving each group permission to edit a specific section of the website or to make certain kinds of changes. For example, you can give one group permission to edit only text, another group the ability to update image files, and so on.

  6. Distribute website connection keys to users. (See Sharing Website Connections.)
  7. A website connection key is a file that contains the network information a user needs to connect to the website using Contribute. These files are password encrypted so that you can safely distribute them without fear of their being misused. The website connection key is not required (because users can instead enter connection information by hand using the Connection Wizard), but the key makes it easier for a user to connect to the website and keeps connection information private.

  8. Verify that the users are able to connect to the website, and can modify and update web pages as required. If you encounter any difficulties in getting users connected, see Troubleshooting.

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