Connecting To A Website - MACROMEDIA CONTRIBUTE 3 - USING AND ADMINISTERING CONTRIBUTE Use Manual

Connecting to a website

Contribute lets you connect to your website quickly and easily. Your Contribute administrator
will do one of the following to help set up a connection for you:
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Send you an e-mail message with a website connection key file (see
key" on page
The connection key contains all the network information that Contribute needs to connect to
your website.
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Give you the necessary connection information and have you enter the information in the
Connection Wizard (see
If you are using a Macintosh and have a .Mac account, Contribute detects the .Mac account and
asks if you want to create a connection to it.
If your website is managed by Contribute Publishing Server, your administrator will send you a
connection key or give you connection information to enter in the Contribute browser address
bar.
Using a website connection key
Your Contribute administrator might provide a connection key, which you can use to establish a
connection to your website. The connection key contains all the network information that
Contribute needs for connecting to your website.
The Contribute administrator will send you an e-mail message with the key. The connection key
is either a file or a URL.
Note: Your Contribute administrator might give you the network location from which to download the
connection key instead of sending you an e-mail message.
To import a website connection key:
Open the e-mail message containing the connection key.
1.
The connection key is attached as a file.
Double-click the connection key.
2.
Do one of the following:
3.
If the Import Connection Key dialog box appears, enter your name, your e-mail address,
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and the password for the connection key, and then click OK.
If the Log in to Publishing Server dialog box appears, enter your user name and password,
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and then click OK.
Note: If you don't know the password, contact the Contribute administrator who sent you the
connection key.
If you are prompted for other connection information, such as FTP, type that information,
4.
and then click OK.
When the connection is complete, the home page of the website appears in the
Contribute browser.
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"Creating a Contribute website connection" on page
"Using a website connection
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