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Contribute tip: Wrapping text around an image

When you're adding an image to a web page, you often will want to wrap the text around it to achieve a more polished layout. There are a couple ways to do this using Contribute. Here's the easiest way. (Click on the images to view a larger version in a pop-up window.)

1. Insert the image



2. Right-click on the image



3. Select Align, then Left or Right. Preview (F12) to view the effect in a browser:

Read more about inline image editing at the Adobe Contribute Developer Center.

Contribute tip: "You cannot perform this action in this region of the page"

The problem: this error message when you're trying to edit your web page in Contribute:

You cannot perform this action in this region of the page.

Most likely, this has to do with templates, which you can't edit in Contribute.

The Contribute help site has a little bit of useful info about templates, but what it doesn't say is that if you click on the end of a line to place the cursor where you want to type, Contribute might put the cursor in the template part of the HTML code. But you won't know it until you see that error message. (D'oh!)

The solution: place the cursor in an area you can type in (say, the middle of the last word in a line) and right-arrow over to the end of the line - but not beyond - and start typing.

You can also clear errors like this by saving & closing your draft, then reopening it.

Thanks to Meg and Cheryl for this tip!

Contribute tip: Previewing your changes

Since many SCLS libraries have started using Macromedia Contribute to edit their own web pages, I thought I'd toss in an occasional tip or trick for using it.

Here's an indispensable one - to preview the changes you've made to a page before you publish it, just press the F12 key. So handy, you'll not know how you lived without it!