User Guide

198 Chapter 13: Managing Users and Roles

If you are not familiar with such web page design elements as font and paragraph usage,

Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) styles, and image file formats and size limitations, consult a web

page designer or other web professional who is knowledgeable about your organization’s website.

About role settings

Contribute lets you define the following categories of permissions and website settings in the Role

dialog box:

General lets you select a starting (home) page that users in the selected role see when they enter

the website. For more information, see “Setting general role settings” on page 203.

Folder/File Access limits a role’s access to the selected folder (or folders) and any subfolders they

contain. For more information, see “Setting folder and file access settings” on page 205.

Editing lets you specify what content users can modify and determine how Contribute processes

paragraphs, line spacing, and accessibility options. For more information, see “Setting page-

editing and paragraph settings” on page 207.

Styles and Fonts specifies which font sets users have access to, and which users can apply style

and formatting to text. For more information, see “Setting style and font settings” on page 209.

New Pages specifies whether Contribute users can create new, blank pages, and which (if any)

Macromedia Dreamweaver MX templates they can use to create new pages. You can also specify

which pages, if any, the user can copy. The options in this category determine what options users

see in the New Page dialog box. For more information, see “Settings for new web pages”

on page 210.

New Images lets you specify a maximum file size, width, and height for images. You can also

restrict users so that they can use images only from a shared asset library that you create, or you

can allow them to add any image to a web page. For more information, see “Setting options for

new images” on page 211.

File Placement lets you specify folder locations for files based on the file extension used to

identify the file type. You can also specify that Contribute not allow files of a certain size to be

uploaded to the web server. For more information, see “Setting options for file placement”

on page 212.

Shared Assets lets you create a library of assets (such as images, Macromedia Flash content, or

Macromedia Dreamweaver library items) that users can add to web pages. You can restrict access

to shared assets to specific users or let any Contribute user accessing the website add the assets to

their pages. For more information, see “Setting options for shared assets” on page 213.