What’s new
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- Content type
- A content type is a reusable collection of settings for HTML
and XML pages. Content types with predefined workflows, templates,
and page expiry settings help you create web pages quickly. Web
pages based on a content type inherit the existing site design and
preserve the current page functionality. They also define the editing
regions in a page for content contributors.
Web pages published
using a content type are tracked in a Smart List - an XML file providing
the metadata about each publish operation. Information such as author
name, date, and time of publishing, can be used as dynamic data
in another file, or as data for site analytics. For more information,
see Working with content types.
- XML editing
- Content authors can now update XML data rendered by dynamic web
pages within Contribute by browsing to the corresponding XML page
and editing them directly. Spry data sets can also be edited similarly.
XML elements and attribute values can be modified protecting the
structural elements such as nodes and tags. For more information,
see Edit XML pages.
- Cross-browser preview
- As content authors, you can verify the appearance of the
updated page and do a browser compatibility check. In Microsoft
Windows, you can preview edited pages in three browsers: Internet
Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, and Webkit. The page is displayed simultaneously
in a split window within the main browser. The preview browsers
are shipped with Contribute, and you do not have to install them
separately on your computer.
On a Mac, you can preview a page
using the browsers installed on your system. Specify the browsers
used for comparison, and they're automatically launched during preview.
Use the various options in Contribute toolbar to customize the display
of browsers. For more information, see Compare page display in multiple browsers (Windows only) and Preview web page simultaneously in multiple browsers.
- Spry widget editing
- Spry widgets are interactive elements on a web page created
using HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. Contribute identifies the widget
information in a web page when you are in the edit mode and renders
it for editing within the browser. Authors can edit data contained
in various spry widgets such as accordion, tabbed, and collapsible
panels. For more information, see Editing spry widgets.
- Improved search and replace
- Use enhanced search and replace capability to update information
on multiple open drafts. Search based on text, images, extra spaces,
hyperlinks, and other elements. For more information, see Search
and replace text. For more information, see Search and replace text.
- Subversion support
- Subversion, a third-party open source version control system
can now be integrated with Contribute. The integration helps website administrators
to track, control changes, archive, and redeploy content. Contribute
lets you work with Subversion with minimal configuration or with
the built-in rollback system. For more information, see Using Subversion with Contribute.
- Image hotspots
- Create areas in an image that can be linked to other destinations.
Draw one or more hotspots on image, and add alternative text and
URLs for interactivity. For more information, see Hotspots.
- Server-side include editing
- SSI files are small text files nested within a web page that
are updated more frequently than the rest of the page. Contribute allows
content authors to edit SSIs directly by identifying the SSI content
within a web page. For more information, see Editing SSI (Server Side Include) information.
- Enhanced image editing
- You can launch the installed Photoshop or Fireworks application
directly from Contribute for image editing. When you have completed
editing, the enhanced CSS rendering displays changes accurately
in your draft. For more information, see Edit image in image-editing applications.
- Search in Contribute browser
- You can now search for specific text in a web page in the
Contribute browser. For more information, see Search within browser (Windows Only).
- Superscript and Subscript support
- You can now represent text as superscript or subscript in
a web page.
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