Contribute Tutorial

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Web Standards

There are certain ways we do things on the Portland Community College website so that the overall website stays compliant with W3C standards and PCC standards.

If your site is in the PCC template, you are starting off with a page that is compliant with W3C Standards, which means your website will:

load faster for the user
render better on mobile devices
be more accessible to all users

Following the PCC standards will optimize your user's experience throughout the entire www.pcc.edu website. These standards have developed out of the user experience information the PCC Web Team gathers through user feedback, usability studies and very detailed user analytic data gathered behind the scenes.

Take a look now to see what is expected, and then before you publish a page, test it again with The PCC Web Editor's Rubric.

The "How-To's" of Web Editing with Adobe Contribute Software

Can I edit our pcc.edu or intranet website?: This section tells you everything you need to get started editing your department's intranet website.
Contribute is a Browser and Website Editor: Learn to navigate to the page you want to edit.
Editing a Page: How to get into edit mode, make changes and publish a page.
Link to a Document: How to upload and link to a document and how to replace an existing document on your website.
Link to an Email Address: Create a link to an email address that will open up the pcc email form.
Link to Another Web Page: Link to another web page either within your website or anywhere on the Web.
Create and Link To a New Web Page: Create a new page and link to it.
Publish a New Page and Link to it: How to publish a new page, give it a good file name and link to it from other pages.

Add a Photo to the Web Page: Add a photo to your web page with style (give it a border, justify it right left or center, make text wrap around it.)
Text Formatting & Styles: How to follow and apply PCC's web styles to page elements such as headings and images, in order to give your site a sense of cohesion to the larger pcc.edu website.
Adding Tables: Creating tables for tabular data.
Navigation Links: When should you have a right column (sidebar) navigation? What sort of pages should be listed there? How do I add the sidebar, and how do I take it off a page?
Delete a Web Page or PDF File: If you want to get rid of a page or PDF file from your website, here's how to do it.
Need More Help?: Don't we all! Just kidding. Here are more ways to find the answer.