Contribution Mode

After you press the correct key combination (Ctrl+Shift+F5 by default), the web page is displayed in contribution mode. You see two changes in your web browser: the page now has a Contribution Mode bar at the top with one or more options for the web page as a whole, and the page includes several contribution graphics, one for each of the contribution regions (that is, the areas on the web page that can be edited) (Figure). See Contribution Graphic for more information on the contribution graphic.

Contribution Graphic

Description of Contribution Graphic

Editing the Contribution Region

To edit the selected contribution region, click its edit icon, or click the menu icon and choose the Edit option. The Contributor editor then opens in a browser popup window, and you can start editing the content in that contribution region. Please note that this browser popup window may be suppressed by popup-blocking software, so you must configure that software to allow pop-ups on your site. Also, when the Contributor editor opens, the web browser displaying the original web page becomes temporarily unavailable. You can return to the web browser when you close the Contributor editor.

Important: The Contributor editor may show more editable data segments than are actually displayed in the contribution region being edited. This is because the current display definition for the contribution region may have been set up to use only a portion of the data file associated with it. The other information may be used elsewhere on the Web site, so editing that information may affect other pages on the site.

Once you are done editing and save the contributor data file, the Web site is automatically updated to reflect the changes.