Disabling your website or blog at startup

Contribute alerts you if it detects a problem with any of your website or blog connections when it starts. Contribute displays the alert after the first connection problem it encounters.

You can have Contribute try to connect again. If Contribute still can't connect, you can disable the website or blog server connection and try to connect to other websites and blogs. If you disable a website or blog server, you can enable it after you resolve your network connection problem.

Note: You can disable a website or blog at any time--not just at startup--when there's a problem. If you have multiple websites and blogs, you can disable the ones you aren't currently working on, so Contribute does not maintain the connection for an extended period of time. For more information, see Disabling website and blog connections.

To disable a website or blog server when your network connection fails:

1. Start Contribute.

   The Connection Failure dialog box appears.

2. Select Try to Connect Anyway to force Contribute to continue checking for a network connection.
3. If Contribute still fails to connect, Contribute displays an error message with two options:
   • Click Yes to continue trying to connect to other websites and blog servers.
   • Click No to disable the rest of your websites and blog servers.
4. Click OK.

To enable a disabled website or blog:

1. Browse to any page on the website or to any blog entry in the blog, and click Connect in the toolbar.
2. Select Edit > My Connections (Windows) or Contribute > My Connections (Macintosh).

   The My Connections dialog box appears.

3. Do one of the following:
   • To enable a website, select the website you want to enable from the list, and click Enable.
   • To enable a blog, select the blog server under which the blog is listed, and click Enable. All the blogs listed under this blog server are enabled. You cannot enable individual blogs.
4. Click Close.

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