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Murray R. Summers
Table of Contents
- Introduction
- Getting started
- Specifying editable regions
- Setting up CSS permissions
- Creating a repeating region
- Registering your site with InContext Editing
- Managing users and site information
Getting started with InContext Editing for developers
Each new release of Dreamweaver is filled with new features, and one of these that you will want to check out in Dreamweaver CS4 is its InContext Editing capability. This feature is designed for organizations (or clients) who want to empower their employees to perform light edits to their site's content, without investing in heavy-duty content management or purchasing additional software tools.
The basic idea of InContext Editing is that a site's editable content is mediated by an Adobe server, configured to have FTP access to the site. Edits are performed on the Adobe server, using a browser (all contemporary browsers are supported, with the exception of Firefox 2.x) and pushed back to the site on completion, review, and acceptance. Creating pages that enable this client-editable content is the thrust of this article.
Requirement
To make the most of this article you need the following software and files:
Dreamweaver CS4
Sample files:
- incontext_demo.zip (ZIP, 329K)
Prerequisite knowledge
A familiarity with HTML and the use of Dreamweaver to create web pages is required. Emphasis will be placed on the code inserted by the InContext Editing tools in Dreamweaver, and it is expected that you will be able to follow along.
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported License
About the author
Murray R. Summers is an Adobe Certified Web Site Developer, Dreamweaver Developer, and Community Expert. He has contributed chapters to several books on Dreamweaver and co-authored a book on Dreamweaver Templates. He used to be a technical editor of Roadmap to Macromedia Contribute by Joseph Lowery (Macromedia Press, 2003) and a number of issues of The Missing Manual series for Dreamweaver, including the one for Dreamweaver CS4. He has served as an invited speaker at every TODCON (international) conference since 2001 (missing only 2008). His company, Great Web Sights, has been active in web development since 1998. Murray lives in the rural Philadelphia area with Suzanne, his wife, and Carly, his daughter, who is currently attending Clemson University (go Tigers!).
