The remaining role settings concern the content of the page. Many of the choices found here must be filtered through the overall design philosophy of the site. For example, many (but certainly not all) designers are basing their sites on CSS; if your site is CSS based, you'll set the role options one way; if your site is oriented more toward tables and font tags, you'll make other choices. The options you choose affect both the Contribute user experience and the code that's inserted.
In this exercise, you'll become familiar yourself with the various editing and styling options available. The choices made here are based on the standards and CSS-oriented, template-based design direction of the sample site: Bounty General. As before, you must be in an Administrator role to begin.
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3. | Switch to the Styles and Fonts category; make sure that the Style Support list is set to Document-level CSS. Check the option "Allow users to apply styles (displays the Style menu)," along with "Includ109 heading styles (<h1>, …in the Style menu)" and "Include CSS styles in the Style menu." Select the "Show only CSS styles included in this CSS file" option and then click Choose. In the Choose File on Website dialog box, expand the site root first and then the css folder. Select bg_filter.css and click OK. Uncheck both the "Allow users to apply fonts and sizes (displays the Font and Size menus)" and the "Allow users to apply font color and background color" options. Check "Allow users to apply bold, italic, underline, strikethrough, and fixed width styles." It's important that you generally allow users to apply styles and at the same time control which styles they are offered. By enabling bot112 heading styles and custom CSS styles in the Style menu, you're allowing users to format their pages correctly with the look and feel you design. As discussed at some length in Lesson 4, the CSS filter file is a great tool for targeting styles for your Contribute users. The flip side of permitting CSS styles is limiting the selection to approved styles. The two options you've disabledwhich together would have allowed users to change fonts, sizes, and colorare both potentially capable of misuse. The designer should think through cases in which users might want to change font characteristics and create appropriate styles. Some examples used in the Bounty General site are a pull-quote style, a legal disclaimer style, and a first paragraph style. Then whyLesson 3, shared assets are an important resource for passing design elements from the designer to the Contribute user. I recommend locking all shared items against editingDreamweaver library items, Flash movies, and graphics alike. Because these elements are potentially shared on many different pages, it's important that they be modified only by the designer, if at all. |
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