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CHAPTER 5
Adding Pages and Documents
With Macromedia Contribute you can add pages to your website. You can create a copy of a page,
create a blank page, create a copy of a sample page, or create a page based on a template. In
addition to creating web pages, you can add existing content, such as Microsoft Word or Excel, to
your website.
You can also use Contribute to create a new stand-alone page that is not associated with one of
your websites by saving the new page to your computer. And, finally, you can add a printable
document to your website by converting it to a Macromedia Flash document.
After you create a page, you can change its properties, or even add keywords or a description for
the page so that website visitors can use a search engine to find the page.
This chapter contains the following sections:
• “About converting documents with FlashPaper” on page 57
• “Creating or copying a page on your website” on page 58
• “Creating a stand-alone web page” on page 63
• “Setting page properties” on page 64
• “Adding keywords and a description for a page” on page 65
• “Converting documents with FlashPaper” on page 66
• “Adding Microsoft Word and Excel documents to a website” on page 71
About converting documents with FlashPaper
When you install Contribute on a Windows machine, you automatically install Macromedia
FlashPaper. FlashPaper lets you create Flash documents from any type of printable document.
Flash documents are typically much smaller than other document types, and you can view them
in any browser that supports Flash, or directly in Flash Player.
You can view Flash documents across platforms, and retain the formatting, graphics, fonts, special
characters, and colors of source documents, regardless of the application and platform used to
create the document. For example, if you created a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet on a Windows XP
computer, you can use FlashPaper to convert it to a Flash document (SWF file), and then send it
to a Macintosh user.