Contribute Instructions

Instructions Holy Family StylesHoly Family New Youth Styles

1. Install Contribute on the computer
2. Double click the key file for the area you’ll be editing:
3. The first time using Contribute, you’ll be asked to enter the password, your user name, and your email address. The password is hf

Editing an Existing Page

1. Browse to the file to be edited
2. Click the Edit button
   
   
3. Make changes, save, and publish
   
   
4. To format text, select the text, and then select the style from the Format -> Style list. View Style Examples.
   

Adding a New Page

New Pages is a two-step process. First, create the new page. Then, add a link to your new page.

1. File -> New.
2. Select the plain template. This contains navigation at the top and left.
3. You’ll also be prompted to add a page title. Page titles may contain any type of character. Search engines use titles to find pages, so having a descriptive page title is a good idea.
   Note: If you need to correct a page title, it can be re-entered by selecting Format-->Page properties)
   
   
   
4. Enter your content (see below for formatting instructions) Be sure to use the H1 style to format the heading for the page. Also, enter the name of the leadership community in the area that shows "Leadership name"
   
5. Return to the page that will be linked to this new page.
   
   
   
6. Click the Edit button to edit this page.
7. Enter text describing the new page. Select the text.
8. While the text is selected, click the Link button at the top (looks like a chain link), then click Drafts and Recent Pages...
   
   
9. Select your new page.
   
   
   
10. Publish your pages.
11. You’ll be prompted give your new page a file name. File names should follow these rules:
    • Start with an alpha character.
    • Contain only alpha, numeric, hyphens, or underscores in the file name.
    • Contain no spaces.
    • Contain no capitalized letters.
    • Keep the file name as short as possible. Under 20 would be a good idea.
      IE limits you to 255 characters, but counts the file path against that limit. This means that if you had a path with a length of 55 characters, the maximum length of the file name that you could choose to upload would be 200 characters.
      

Copying and Pasting

1. Select the text from your source,
2. Copy (Ctrl + C or Edit -> Copy)
3. Place the insertion point on where you want the text on your new page.
4. Paste (Ctrl + V or Edit -> Paste Text)

Formatting

1. Instead of using bold, center, font, etc to format a page, use the styles so the pages look consistent.
2. Styles
3. Youth Styles

Exit

Before exiting Contribute, be sure that only your home page is listed under “pages.” Otherwise, other people will be locked out of editing those pages. For example, if you were connected to the Adult Faith Formation folder, only the Adult Faith Formation home page should be listed, also, that page should be published.

To accomplish this, publish all your drafts before exiting Contribute. As you publish, all pages but your home page are removed from the pages list.

Home Page Slide Show

With the exception of the welcome image, all the images are named img_01.jpg through img_51.jpg and are 370 pixels wide by 278 pixels tall. Any image can be replaced with a new image as long as the new image is the same size and file name as the image being replaced. The images are saved in a folder named slidepics. (The Welcome image is named img_0.jpg.)

Scroller

• Use the scroller.stc key to edit the scroller window. This will open a page named. scroller_content.htm.
• To add a new box, just insert a new row. A new row can be added to then end by pressing the TAB key in the last row.
• To delete a row, click in the row to be deleted. Select Table->Delete->Row.
• To add a line that doesn't go all the way across, insert an horizontal rule: Insert-->Horizontal Rule.

• Content in the scroller will automatically be centered,.
• Images can be added, but they must be 152 pixels wide or less; otherwise, the right side of the text will be cut off.