Summary of CONTRIBUTE 3-DEPLOYING CONTRIBUTE
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Contribute 3 deploying contribute.
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3 contents deploying contribute to departments and enterprises . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 contribute deployment responsibilities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 deployment tasks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ....
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5 deploying contribute to departments and enterprises macromedia contribute is a website editor that lets people connect to departmental and other websites so that they can update web page content. Administrative assistants, product managers, human resource managers, and other people in an organizat...
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6 deploying contribute to departments and enterprises contribute deployment responsibilities as a system or website administrator, you play a large part in deploying contribute. The deployment responsibilities include the following tasks: • installing the contribute software. • creating connections ...
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Deployment tasks 7 these roles vary from organization to organization. In smaller organizations and workgroups, a single person may handle the job of administering contribute and determining the design of the website. Larger workgroups and departments may have a team of people involved in maintainin...
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8 deploying contribute to departments and enterprises in addition to the basic tasks described in the preceding table, you might want to further enhance your website by designing it to be more easily maintainable or by adding additional functionality by using cps. Deployment issues the following sec...
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Deployment issues 9 although these questions may seem obvious, it’s good to think about them before you create a connection to your website with contribute. The sections below will help to provide you with background information on these questions, and how they relate to installing and configuring c...
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10 deploying contribute to departments and enterprises about contribute administrative settings contribute administrative settings are a collection of settings that apply to all users of your website. These settings let you fine-tune contribute to provide a better user experience. The contribute adm...
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Deployment issues 11 related topics • “configuring contribute administration settings” in macromedia contribute help contribute site structure the connection you create to a website with contribute determines the network protocol to use when accessing the site, the web address (url) of the site, and...
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12 deploying contribute to departments and enterprises the following example shows overlapped connection paths: connection1: www.Mysite.Com/intranet/ connection2: www.Mysite.Com/intranet/marketing in the following example, the paths do not overlap: connection1: www.Mysite.Com/intranet/marketing conn...
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Deployment issues 13 local area networks when contribute is used to connect to a web server through a local network, the web server must be visible to the local network. Contribute can also be used with virtual private network (vpn) servers to ensure that all file transmissions occur behind your fir...
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14 deploying contribute to departments and enterprises secure ftp sftp is a secure version of the ftp protocol. Like ssh, sftp prevents unauthorized users from gaining access to password and user information that is sent without encryption over the internet. Standard ftp sends the user id and passwo...
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Deployment issues 15 webdav web-based distributed authoring and versioning (webdav) is a series of extensions to the http protocol that lets users collaboratively update and manage files on a website. A key feature of the webdav protocol is file locking. Users connecting to a webdav-enabled site loc...
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16 deploying contribute to departments and enterprises contribute and directory services microsoft active directory and ldap are protocols for accessing information directories. In the case of directory services, a directory is like a phone book and not like a directory (folder) on your computer. Wh...
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Contribute user roles 17 to use publishing services, you must have a j2ee application server such as macromedia jrun installed. To learn more about contribute publishing services, including how to install and configure a publishing services server, see the contribute publishing services website at w...
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18 deploying contribute to departments and enterprises example role assignments as an example of roles you might create, consider an online magazine. The job functions associated with producing a magazine include a publisher, managing editor, copy editor, writer, and web designer. In addition, contr...
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Contribute and website security 19 related topics: • “understanding network and server permissions” on page 9 • “secure ftp” on page 14 • “contribute user roles” on page 17 web page rollbacks rollbacks let you revert to a previous version of any published web page, providing you with a level of file...
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20 deploying contribute to departments and enterprises in particular, you might want to block http access to the mmwip folder. The mmwip folder contains interim drafts of files (works in progress) that you might want to protect. Macromedia recommends that you restrict access to the mmwip folder so t...
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Website connection distribution 21 other web servers if you are using another vendor’s web server, refer to the documentation supplied with your web server software to learn how to prevent users from accessing specific folders and files. Staging servers and contribute if you use contribute to update...
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22 deploying contribute to departments and enterprises related topics • “about creating and sending connections” in macromedia contribute help. • “sending connections for non-managed websites” in macromedia contribute help. Deploying contribute across an organization macromedia uses an extensible in...
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Approvals and site structure 23 the following figure shows an example of a file sent for approval, and the files and folders that are created when you send a user of your website a page for their approval..
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24 deploying contribute to departments and enterprises this figure shows the main folders and files that are created when you enable approvals for a given site and a user sends a page for review. The folders created for approvals are as follows: _mm/ct2004/messaging/users contains a folder for each ...
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Content design considerations 25 if you’re not familiar with web page design or the html elements used to design a website, contact your web team or the people responsible for creating your organization’s website. If you’re in a smaller organization without access to web design resources, review the...
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26 deploying contribute to departments and enterprises cascading style sheets (css) web designers use css to specify formatting rules that can be applied to text and other design elements in a web page. These rules—called css styles—can be defined within a page, or in a separate style sheet that can...
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Content design considerations 27 templates in contribute to be used in a contribute site, the dreamweaver template files, identified by the .Dwt file extension, must reside in a folder named templates in the root folder of the website (for example, /templates/contactpage.Dwt). When you create templa...
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28 deploying contribute to departments and enterprises dreamweaver library items must be stored on the remote server and located in the library folder. The contribute administrator can set library files as locked or unlocked shared assets. A locked library item cannot be edited in contribute; unlock...
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Contribute case studies 29 contribute publishing services contribute includes a suite of optional service applications that let you add functionality to your website. Using these applications, you can more easily manage contribute as well as provide additional functionality for contribute users. The...
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30 deploying contribute to departments and enterprises use the information in this section to help you determine where to create the shared settings file for the following common website structures: simple intranet website typically, this is a website where users have read access to the root of the ...
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Contribute case studies 31 it is important that the templates folder, which is located at the same level as the contribute shared settings folder (_mm), is accessible by all users, and the site’s css (css folder), and server side includes (ssi folder) are protected by role settings that restrict acc...
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32 deploying contribute to departments and enterprises users can browse the entire site but are restricted to editing within their department’s folder. By restricting user’s editing privileges to their department’s web pages, each group can maintain control over their web content and can act more in...
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Contribute case studies 33 unlike sites that don’t use publishing services to manage users, the user directory does not create an administrative file at the folder level to which you limit access. Instead, the user directory stores and maintains all user and connection information. When a user logs ...
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34 deploying contribute to departments and enterprises likewise, web designer laura logic and contribute administrator jah wobble have access to all sites. As the web designer, laura provides templates that are easy to add content to, and that fit the needs of users collaborating internally. The tem...
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Contribute case studies 35 in regard to contribute, the use of a staging server lets you copy only folders and files that you specify as necessary for your website. This lets you use contribute to update web content on the staging server, but only publish the necessary web pages to your production w...
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36 deploying contribute to departments and enterprises _baks archives rollback copies of files. _notes contains design notes. These files record information about who last published a given page, and other information mmwip contains drafts of pages that have been sent for review but have not yet bee...
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37 index a administration settings, about 10 administrator responsibilities 6 c cascading style sheets about 26 connections about 12 sftp 14 webdav 15 contribute publishing services. See publishing services d deploying responsibilities 6 tasks 7 design notes 25 dreamweaver compatibility with contrib...
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38 index.