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In this movie, let's take a look at the second element in the workflow process of contribute: the editing content. First people can browse very easily to find the page that they want to work with and then they can actually edit the page. When you edit the page, Contribute copies the file from the web server and locks it. It puts a lock on it so that no one else can edit the page while other people are working on it. It simply puts a .lck extension on the file and then other people can not edit that file. Now, the editor will make changes to a page just like in a word processing program. You can edit text, add or delete graphics, work with tables, make email or hyperlinks and you can even add Word, Excel documents, pdfs. Because it looks like a word processing program when you edit within Contribute, it makes for easy transition. People who might be afraid to edit a website would be more willing because it is in a word processing format. So let's look at that. Let's say we were out here browsing on this website and we want to change this page. We simply click edit page at the top. Now, that button is there because we are connected to this site. Now, for the editing elements, I'm gong to move over these first four buttons. We'll look at those in the next movie, but as you can see, there's all kinds of options here for editing. You just simply lay your mouse on these buttons and you can see by the screen tip it's telling you what it's for. I can go over here and type anything I want. Very simply. And I can make easy, quick changes. Very much like a word processor. They can indent, they can align, they can add bullets, numbering, very simple, easy to do. And the nice thing is they made the font and the font sizes really simple and just like any other program that you would use. They give you the drop-down menu, you select what you need and then you move on. It will also give you CSS styles and we'll go in that in a later movie, but in a little more detail, but you can maintain the styles throughout your website so people can't all of a sudden have all kinds of crazy fonts throughout your entire site. Let's also go look at our blog. I set up this blog at Blogger.com and I called it Contribute CS3. It says to go to a blog entry, select an entry from the list. So I can just click on those and it takes me to a blog entry. Now, if I want to, I can edit that entry. Simply click edit and what it does again is create a draft on the server holding onto that so that I can work with that. I can go in here and make that change. Simply typing the information. Now, as you can see, we can publish that here in a little bit and we will and I'll show you that later on. But then I can add links, enclosures, track-backs, tables. The difference on this one is that fact that it's talking about tags. You can add meta tags so that people will more likely be drawn to certain areas etcetera if you're on a search engine. You can change the title. I can change that right here. My blog title, dates, times, labels, and of course I've got the basic editing toolbar down here; my centering, my numbering, my bulleting. And again, I can change the color. Very simple, very easy to use items, just like your word processing program. You'll notice on the blog you're seeing the exact graphical layout. You can see the background, you can see the coloring. It keeps people very familiar and in a place that looks just like what they're used to seeing out on the web. So now that you know how to edit elements, let's take a look at actually publishing those in the next movie.