Tutorials

These tutorials are handouts from training sessions for web editors as well as tips and tricks I'm asked on a regular basis. They're kept short on purpose so that they can be printed on 1-2 pages or on a single sheet if you use duplex mode.

Creating a New Web Page with Contribute

In this tutorial, we'll create a new web page in Contribute and learn to specify the right file name when saving it on the web server.

Extracting backgrounds

In this tutorial, We use a more advanced technique of extracting an image's background in order to remove a distracting feature.

Optimizing Images for the Web

In this tutorial, we review three basic steps to optimize an image for the web: 1) crop; 2) resize; and 3) sharpen.

WYSIWYG Editors

In this tutorial, I'll discuss Contribute's WYSIWYG interface as well as web forms with a WYSIWG toolbar, including a few issues and how to solve them.