Contribute and 100% Valid CSS/XHTML

[t324ryan]

Hi. I was just wondering if I could get some input from people who use
Contribute as a content management system with standards-based CSS sites. Our
company uses Dreamweaver templates with Contribute to allow users of sites we
design to update their content. However, using Dreamweaver templates imposes a
lot of restrictions on what we can do. Please share your experiences,
suggestions, thoughts, etc.

[Murray *TMM*]

What is your question?

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"t324ryan" <webforumsuser@macromedia.com> wrote in message
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> Hi. I was just wondering if I could get some input from people who use
> Contribute as a content management system with standards-based CSS sites.
> Our
> company uses Dreamweaver templates with Contribute to allow users of sites
> we
> design to update their content. However, using Dreamweaver templates
> imposes a
> lot of restrictions on what we can do. Please share your experiences,
> suggestions, thoughts, etc.
>

[gefjo]

As a temporary rebuild of our site [url]http://thegef.org[/url] I had created very clean
html+css and didn't want Contribute messing it up. At first I was horrified, as
I found Contribute adding in its own tags. In the meantime I have cleaned out
of the styles drop-down any styles other than my own. Provided users go through
Notepad to eliminate Microsoft formatting, you need not fear for your carefully
coded site.

[Murray *TMM*]

Contribute only adds the tags you tell it to.

Can you give me an example?

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"gefjo" <webforumsuser@macromedia.com> wrote in message
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> As a temporary rebuild of our site [url]http://thegef.org[/url] I had created very
> clean
> html+css and didn't want Contribute messing it up. At first I was
> horrified, as
> I found Contribute adding in its own tags. In the meantime I have cleaned
> out
> of the styles drop-down any styles other than my own. Provided users go
> through
> Notepad to eliminate Microsoft formatting, you need not fear for your
> carefully
> coded site.
>

[gefjo]

An example: On this page
[url]http://thegef.org/participants/Secretariat/CEO/CEOhome.html[/url], code was added to
the <h2> tags that does not come from us, i.e. <h2 style="margin-top: 0;
margin-bottom: 0;">
Before this page was written, our stylesheet had already defined <h2>.
I don't have an example, but until I dumped them, saw styles named things like
style1, style2, which was presumably Contribute creating styles on the basis of
formatting changes made by an editor.
Once those "styles" were in place, even if we went through Notepad to dump
formats, when we pasted into a Contribute page with clean code created by hand,
it would add these styles of its own.

[Murray *TMM*]

> presumably Contribute creating styles on the basis of

> formatting changes made by an editor.

Yes definitely that's what it is. So you want the editors NOT to be able to
create any new styles? You can specify that in the Administration options
for the various Editor roles in CT3. Are your editors using CT3?

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"gefjo" <webforumsuser@macromedia.com> wrote in message
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> An example: On this page
> [url]http://thegef.org/participants/Secretariat/CEO/CEOhome.html[/url], code was
> added to
> the <h2> tags that does not come from us, i.e. <h2 style="margin-top: 0;
> margin-bottom: 0;">
> Before this page was written, our stylesheet had already defined <h2>.
> I don't have an example, but until I dumped them, saw styles named things
> like
> style1, style2, which was presumably Contribute creating styles on the
> basis of
> formatting changes made by an editor.
> Once those "styles" were in place, even if we went through Notepad to dump
> formats, when we pasted into a Contribute page with clean code created by
> hand,
> it would add these styles of its own.
>

[ponseel]

Hello,

we have developp a site in a CSS, that we had validated on W3C. This site must
be manage by our client with contribute 3, and we are very surprise because
what we see with contribute is very different of what we valid. It's not
possible to use contribute in that way.
You could see the projet on [url]http://www.1-ter-net.net/testvalide/golf/[/url]
Is there somebody who could tell us is contribute could manage CSS ? What kind
of CSS, is that a different kind of CSS specially for Macromedia ?

Best regards
Eryck

[bdee2]

ok i am having the same problem where users are editing pages and creating new
styles without realizing it. and when in looked in the contribute settings
(contribute 3) the only way i found to disable this for users was to go to
Styles and Fonts and for style support select 'don't allow users to create
styles'. the problem with this is that it also doesn't allow users to apply
styles. the style dropdown that appears when text is selected is no longer
there. is there a way to prevent users from creating styles but still allow
them to apply styles?

[gefjo]

bdee2: I see that in the admin options, you have the possibility to allow an
editor to apply styles, but only from a specific style sheet. So it's tough if,
like us, you use more than one style sheet, but that might be a solution for
you.