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Macromedia Contribute 2 Tutorials

Connections / Connection Wizard/Assistant

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One of the first thing that you will need to do if you are going to start working on a web site is actually create a connection to that website, let us take a look at how you are going to do that. Now there are several ways to go ahead you can click the tutorial, I will show you how to do it. You can click the create a connection link in the welcome page or you can just run right up top here and click create connection. Now we can just pick the one right here in the middle and we are going to have a connection wizard that is going to walk us through what we need to do to create a connection. Now I have created a working website I have creativeworks.com that we can use through out the tutorial, and let us go ahead and get the connection to that website. So I am going to put my name on here and my email address this is helpful when you are working in a team environment. So other folks know who is making the edits. And if somebody screws up then you would know who to yell at. Here is the web address of the site we are going to be working on and we are going to connect the FTP and I am putting the name of the FTP server which in this case starts with WWW. Most website or the internet service providers will require you to start with the FTP versus WWW in this case WWW is what my service providers lets me use in a works login, put in my login name and the password and what is going to do now is go ahead and test the connection and ping the server the web server to see if we get response then I put in the correct information, let's see if I got it right. Ok, looks like I got all the information in the right way. Now if it came back and said the information is correct double check your user name and your password with the created works a lot of times, if you have unusual domain like that double and triple check the spelling. So it is little things that gets you that will drive you nuts. Now I am going to be the administrator for this site because it is my site. You just may want to be editing a company website were there is already an administrator you just logging on it as an editor in that case you just leave the radio button, select to this no I do not want to be the administrator and in this case YES I want to be the boss. And I am going to enter an administrator password which is going to be lets say repeat the password make sure you get that right good idea to stop and write that password down again. We all have lot of passwords we have to try and keep tracks of their in our lives, you'd hate to get yourself locked in as the administrator and forget what the password is, so go ahead and click the next screen see I messed up alright let us try that again little slower this time alright there we go, got the information. Now here we have the user which is John Kuhlman, and email address here is the web site we are going to work on, here is the connection information I am going in FTP, there is a host of creativeworks in the WWW folder, login name and who the administrator is. Go ahead and click done and it is going to go ahead and update some templates and it is going to connect to the server and basically replicate the site, on our end here lets see what we got, we go ok. Now it is going to ask you do you want to change the administration settings for the website. At this point we are going to say NO and we now created connection to creativeworks. Now this is little compressed and I close the panels and there is a look at the website as it currently sits and this is the beginning point and through out the tutorial we are going to make some changes. ]

Tutorial Information

Course: Macromedia Contribute 2
Author: John Kuhlman
SKU: 33517
ISBN: 1-932072-68-3
Release Date: 2004-08-05
Duration: 4 hrs / 93 lessons
Work Files: Yes
Captions: For Online University members only
Compatibility: Vista/XP/2000, OS X, Linux
QuickTime 7, Flash 8

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