Technology: Adobe Contribute Tutorial - Step 3: Publish your changes

Publish your changes

Once you are finished making changes to the draft you can click the Publish button in the upper left corner of the Contribute window to make the updates live.

If this is not a new page you are finished.  Your updates are now live on the web.  If you have created a new page you may see a new page link reminder.  Click the Yes button. 

A "Publish New Page" dialog box will appear.  You will be prompted to enter a file name for your new page.  Contribute will suggest something very lengthy.  Instead of using this choose a shorter, concise name that you will be able to easily identify and associate with the contents at a later date.  Make sure the file name contains lowercase characters, no spaces and no special characters.  For more information on file names refer to the Good File Naming Habits web page.  After entering a file name and selecting a specific folder (if necessary), click the Publish button.

Your new page is now live.  For information on how to create a link to the new page for another existing page refer to Step Two - Edit the page.

Tip: It's good practice to check all new or modified links after you publish a web page.

Save for Later

If you are not ready to publish you can also choose to save your draft for later editing by clicking the Save for Later button. 

To retrieve your draft later go to File > Drafts and select the draft you would like to continue working on.