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Configuring a Site in Dreamweaver for a Contribute Site Administrator

Thanks to the seamless integration between Contribute and Dreamweaver, you can configure your site for Contribute users without leaving the Dreamweaver environment. To do so, you use Dreamweaver's Manage Sites dialog.

Because the Contribute configuration is accessible from within the Site Definition window in Dreamweaver, you'll need to edit the Dante site definition to prepare it for Contribute-based editing and maintenance.

This step allows you to configure Contribute for site-maintenance tasks. Enabling Design Notes and Check In/Check Out in Dreamweaver allows you to use Contribute's compatibility features with the Dante site.

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When you provide the user information, Contribute is able to assign the user appropriate permissions. You'll first create an account for the Dante site's administrator, so that he can use all Contribute's updating features with no limitations.

Contribute has three default roles: administrator, publisher, and writer. The administrator, who has the most powerful of the three roles, can create new roles and modify existing ones, add users to the site, and send connection keys to new users so that they can access the site. A site can have only one administrator. Publishers are users who can create, edit, and publish pages. Writers can only create and edit pages; they can't publish pages. Writers need to send their pages to either an administrator or a publisher for review prior to publication.

The Site root URL must be the same as the URL Prefix (specified in the Testing Server tab, and set in a previous lesson) in order for Dreamweaver to create a successful connection to Contribute.

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If you're running ColdFusion as a standalone Web server, the site URL will be http://localhost:8500/dante. If you're using a different ColdFusion server, enter its URL.

After you click the Test button, Dreamweaver displays a pop-up window that tells you the connection was successful.

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Because you're creating an account for the site administrator, you need to choose Yes to make sure that Contribute recognizes and configures the role of this person.

As the Contribute site administrator, you'll need to make decisions regarding the types of code-editing experience you'll provide for the people who perform maintenance tasks. Two options are available in Contribute: one-line line breaks, as in standard word processors (where pressing Enter/Return moves the cursor down a single line); and two-line line breaks, as in Web-page editors (where pressing Enter/Return moves the cursor down two lines, creating an extra line of space between the two paragraphs). To ensure better code, choose the Dreamweaver-style editing option. With the Dreamweaver-style editing option selected, the code will be clean and will include <p> tags. If you choose the Word-processing option, the resulting code will have large quantities of inline styles.

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Now that the connection for the site is successfully established, you can administer Contribute use within Dreamweaver.

As mentioned earlier, the site administrator has the most page-editing privileges. The site administrator is allowed to publish files to the Web server, edit any files in any folder, create a new page, and insert images.