Help! Can't edit pages

[LizzyCol]

Hi all, please help a newbie!!

I have recently started working for a charity which had a Dreamweaver website.
I have Contribute 3 for editing purposes, but I can't change a lot of things
and it doesn't make any sense. Unfortunately the company that produced the
website for us in the first plave has gone bust, so I have no access to any
help from them. I have checked that I have full administration rights.

The main problems are:-

1. The pages are set in 2 column format, which I don't want, but I am unable
to change this

2. I can change font style/colour/alignment etc etc on the home page of the
site, but on all the others this is not possible and I am only offered a choice
of 6 pre-set styles which are awful

3. When I edit a page in Contribute it appears correctly, but when I upload
it to the site the text and images are misaligned (I am making sure that I am
using the correct file types for images). I therefore have to keep editing the
page and shifting things about and then publishing it until I get everything to
line up correctly on the site.

4. One of the pages says that I am unable to edit because another user is
already editing. This user is a member of staff that left over 2 years ago.

Sorry if some of this may seem basic, but I have done tutorials and read
books, and I can't see any reason why I shouldn't be able to do all the above
with full administration rights. I've been thrown in at the deep end here!

Here's the website, in case that helps www.findavoice.org.uk

Thanks in advance

Liz :o)

[scr]

Item 1: I don't understand why you are trying to change underlying formatting
using Contribute. Contribute is a content editor. To change the underlying
layout of the page, use Dreamweaver, or some other html editing environment.

Item 2: Probably coming from the CSS file. Same answer as #1.

Item 3: I think I'd need to see an example before I quite grasped the problem.

Item 4: This is probably a LCK file issue. Use a standard FTP program to log
into their server account and delete all the LCK files. Contribute makes these
whenever it gets confused (and it gets confused frequently).

Hope this helps.

[Don9of11]

Adobe Contribute is not an html editor even though it is advertised that you
can edit your web page using Contribute. Contribute is nothing more than a
layout tool, limited to making tables, anchor links and dropping a few images
in now and then. Any real web development or design and you need a true blue
html editor like Dreamweaver, Visual Studio and so on.

Some of my clients have bought this product believing they will be able to
edit their web page only to find out that much of the web page they want to
edit is not accessible to them, then they want to know why, or why I didn't
build the page so that it could be edited by Contribute. A frack'n nightmare if
ever there was one.