ADOBE CONTRIBUTE CS4: Creating and Managing Web Pages for Beginners Sasi K Benzigar benzigar@purdue.edu Educational Technologist ITaP – Teaching and Learning Technologies
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Objectives Content Management System Contribute CS3 overview Create website connection Edit and update existing web sites
Content Management System CMS is a computer software system used to assist its users in the process of content management. CMS facilitates the collaborative creation of documents. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Content_management_system
Web Content Management System Web Content Management System (WCMS) is a content management system with additional features to ease the tasks required to publish web content to web sites. WYSIWYG Authoring — Browse, Edit & Publish http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Content_management_system
Purdue Space 500 MB space (personal/Web) H Drive Roaming profile Store your personal documents Host your websites (WWW folder)
Web publishing Dreamweaver FTP/SFTP Web Server Website Edit/update Photoshop
Contribute – Ease of Use Web Server Contribute
Website Connection Website Home page: http://web.ics.purdue.edu/~PUID Secure FTP (SFTP) : ftp.ics.purdue.edu Username: PUID Password: ******
Use and Usability Faculty - Adobe contribute to update their personal websites and course sites. Staff - Adobe contribute to update websites and project sites.
Use and Usability Simple to use “browse, edit and publish” environment. Ability to update websites created with any web development application ( like Dreamweaver, Front page etc) Available web and image tools to update/modify content and make simple image manipulations.
Use and Usability Ability to share and collaborate with others Simple copy/paste or drag and drop content update.
Examples Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching MERLOT Contribute case studies ADOBE
Contribute Overview
Other Resources Adobe Contribute for Education http://www.adobe.com/products/contribute/solutions/education/ These are the links from the MatchWare website.
Evaluation http://www.itap.purdue.edu/training/materials/