The Contributor Editor

The editing environment available on the web pages depends on the editor set up for use with Site Studio Contributor and the content type that is being edited (text, image, and so on). By default, the editor used with Site Studio Contributor is based on FCKeditor, which is a light-weight, JavaScript-based editor that does not require any kind of installation on the client computer. Your content server administrator may have chosen to set up an alternative editor, such as Ephox. If that is the case, your editing environment may look slightly different than shown in this guide. Also, there may be minor differences in the editing experience (for example, some editing features may not be available or work slightly differently).

The Contributor application is launched by pressing a special key combination (Ctrl+Shift+F5 by default) on web pages that are managed by Site Studio and Content Server and that the site designer has made available for editing by site contributors. This brings you in contribution mode, which shows a special graphic next to each area on the web page that can be edited.

Contribution Graphic

Description of Contribution Graphic

This graphic shows the name of the editable area, an edit icon, and a menu icon. To edit the selected area, click the edit icon (or click the menu icon and choose the edit option). As soon as you are done editing and save the data file, the Web site is updated to reflect the changes. See Getting Started With Contributor to learn more about the Contributor editor.