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Create a blank Page

Contribute supports a special blog entry called Pages supported by some blog sites. Contents of Pages are stored in a database, and are retrieved using protocols like MetaWeblog and Atom.

Pages, spelled with a capital P, contain information that does not change drastically over a period of time. Information contained in the Pages is displayed permanently on the blog. Pages can be organized in a hierarchical fashion into pages and subpages with a parent-child relationship between them.

Note: You cannot use this feature when working with blog sites that do not support Pages.

For example, Pages could contain information about the author, copyright information, legal matter, or description of the blog. Sub pages for the author could contain information related to the author, like hobbies, professional interests, and personal likes and dislikes.

Note: If the word Pages appears after a period, the reference could be either to Pages or normal web pages depending on the context.

Pages can use templates and each Page can use a different template. However, Contribute CS4 supports only the default template of the blog site and assigns it to all the Pages.

Note: You cannot assign categories or tags to Pages.

  1. Connect to the blog in which you want to create the new blank blog Page.

  2. In the Contribute browser, click the New button in the toolbar, or select File > New.

    The New Web Page Or Blog Entry dialog box opens.

  3. Select the desired blog, and choose the Blank Page option.

    Note: This option is not available for blog sites that do not support Pages.

  4. Enter a title for the blog Page in the Blog Page Title box.

  5. Click OK.

    The new blog Page opens as a draft in Contribute.

  6. In the Date area, click the Set Date Time icon and set the date and time when you want to publish your blog entry draft.

  7. Select an option from the Parent Page pop-up menu to set a parent page for the Page.

  8. Enter a number to set a page order for the Page. This order can change based on the relative page order of child pages.

  9. Click the Allow Trackbacks icon to maintain a list of other blogs that are linked to your blog entry.

    Note: Before publishing the blog entry, select File> Preview In Browser to view the blog entry in a web browser. Test all the links in the entry.

  10. Enter the content for the blog entry and publish it.

    Note: You can link a blank blog entry to another blank blog entry and publish the entries. For more information, see Link to a new blank blog entry.