Editing troubles - Contribute CS3

Good afternoon all. We hired a company that we no longer have contact with to create our website. We were given Contribute CS3 to maintain/edit certain information on the page. I need to edit the actual template for the site but everytime I put the cursor over the area for editing I get a circle with a line through it. Can anyone help?
Thank you for your help.
L3

In order to edit template files, you would probably need Adobe Dreamweaver.
Technically, if you know whatever tech. they are built with, you could use Notebook to do the editing but that would not apply the template changes to your site.

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I put a site online last week (www.dunelakeslodge.co.nz) and
supplied my
client with Contribute CS3 to update it, supplying her a
connection key.
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gets a
message saying she "can't edit this page because Dave Addison
(that's
me) is already editing it. Please contact blah, blah...".
I have connected to the site myself with Contribute 3, and
got a similar
error: "you can't edit this site because you are already
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I'm sure someone here will be able to help, but just curious
if you've tried
posting in the Contribute forum at all?
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"Dave Addison" <[email protected]> wrote in
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news:[email protected]..
>I put a site online last week (www.dunelakeslodge.co.nz)
and supplied my
>client with Contribute CS3 to update it, supplying her a
connection key.
>
> She is connecting OK, but when she tries to edit a page
she gets a message
> saying she "can't edit this page because Dave Addison
(that's me) is
> already editing it. Please contact blah, blah...".
>
> I have connected to the site myself with Contribute 3,
and got a similar
> error: "you can't edit this site because you are already
editing it on
> another computer"!!
>
> It gave me the option to "unlock" the page, which I
selected, and I was
> then able to edit the page. However, my client still
can't.
>
> Anyone got a solution to this?
>
> thanks
> Dave
>

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