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Before you begin, gather the following information:
The user name and e-mail address identify users and the web pages they are working on. Contribute prevents multiple users from simultaneously editing the same web page. (Contribute uses a system much like the Macromedia Dreamweaver check in/check out system to avoid editing conflicts.)
Tip: If you have multiple copies of Contribute, use a different user name for each copy. For example, Chris(laptop), and Chris(Mac). Using the same user name can cause problems because you can override checkouts you make on the other machine.
A websites Uniform Resource Locator (URL) is its address either on the Internet or on an organizations intranet. Website URLs usually have the following form:
http://www.mysite.com/
The network path is the location of the website within your organizations local network. The network path includes the name of the server on which the website is stored and the directory path of the websites files on that server. For example, your network path might be \\mycomputer\wwwroot\ (Windows) or afp://server:volume: (Macintosh).
Note: If you are a Mac OS X user, to create a LAN connection make sure to mount the network volume of the server you are creating a connection to on your computer desktop before you create your connection. In Finder, select Go > Connect to Server to mount the network to which youll connect.
File Transfer Protocol (FTP) provides a secure way to transfer files to your local or remote web server. If you will connect to your website from a remote location (for example, telecommuting from home or another office) you may need to connect to the website using FTP, to transfer files from a remote location across the Internet to your website (for example, if you dont have a local network connection to the website).
If you or your users will connect to your website using FTP or Secure FTP, you must know the address of the FTP server, as well as the user name and password to connect to the FTP server. For example, your FTP servers address might be ftp.mysite.com.
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