Saving And Publishing A Page With Frames; Targeting Frame Content; About Targeting A Frame - MACROMEDIA CONTRIBUTE-USING CONTRIBUTE Use Manual

Saving and publishing a page with frames

Because a frameset is made up of individual web pages, when you edit a page that appears in a
frame, you only alter the page you edit, not the frameset. Publishing a page that appears in a
frameset is the same as publishing a page that isn't in a frameset. You do not actually alter the
frameset page, so you do not need to publish it.
When you finish editing a frame page (see "Editing frame content" on page 121), you have the
following options before you publish the page:
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Click the Cancel button in the toolbar (see "Canceling a draft or new page" on page 43).
The individual frame in the frameset appears in Contribute without your changes. Click the
Back button in the toolbar to return to the frameset page.
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Select File > Preview in Browser (see "Previewing a page in your default browser" on page
125).
The individual frame appears in a browser with your changes.
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Select File > E-mail Review (see "Using the e-mail review process for drafts" on page 126).
Contribute sends the URL for a temporary copy of the individual frame. The frameset appears
in Contribute without your changes.
To publish a page that appears in a frame:
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In your draft, click the Publish button (see "Publishing a page to your website" on page 127).
Contribute displays the frameset with the updated page loaded in the correct frame.
Note: If you publish changes to a frameset that is nested (a frameset within a frameset), then the child nested
frameset that you changed appears in Contribute. If there are multiple nested framesets, only the first frameset
containing the edited page appears.

Targeting frame content

In addition to editing a frame's content, you can change the content that appears in a frame, by
creating links in one frame that open different pages in another frame (see "Specifying a target
frame for a link" on page 123). For more information about targeting a frame, see "About
targeting a frame" on page 122.

About targeting a frame

You can change the content that appears in a frame, by creating links in one frame that open
different pages in another frame. To use a link in one frame to open a new page in another
frame, you must set a target for the link. Selecting a frame in which to open a page is called
targeting a frame.
Each link in a frameset should have a target—a frame in which to open the page when the user
clicks the link. For example, the main frame might be the target for multiple links, so that the
content of the main frame changes each time the user clicks a link in the navigation frame.
Note: If you don't specify a target for a link, Contribute uses the Default option and opens the new page in the frame
that contains the link.
When you add a link to a page in a frameset, you can indicate a target frame for the page you're
linking to. The frameset designer should have given each frame a name so that you can select
specific frames as targets. You can also change the target once you've inserted the link by editing
the link properties (see "Editing links" on page 115).
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