Setting Up A Dreamweaver Site - Adobe 38040334 - Dreamweaver CS3 User Manual

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Chapter 3: Working with Dreamweaver
sites
An Adobe® Dreamweaver® CS3 site is a collection of all of the files and assets in your website. You can create web
pages on your computer, upload them to a web server, and maintain the site by transferring updated files whenever
you save them. You can also edit and maintain websites that were created without Dreamweaver.

Setting up a Dreamweaver site

About Dreamweaver sites
A website is a set of linked documents and assets with shared attributes, such as related topics, a similar design, or a
shared purpose. Dreamweaver is a site creation and management tool, so you can use it to create individual
documents and complete websites.
In Dreamweaver the term "site" refers to a local or remote storage location for the documents that belong to a website.
A Dreamweaver site provides a way to organize and manage all of your web documents, upload your site to a web
server, track and maintain your links, and manage and share files. You should define a site to take full advantage of
Dreamweaver features.
Note: To define a Dreamweaver site, you only need to set up a local folder. To transfer files to a web server or to develop
web applications, you must also add information for a remote site and testing server.
A Dreamweaver site consists of as many as three parts, or folders, depending on your development environment and
the type of website you are developing:
Stores the files you're working on. Dreamweaver refers to this folder as your "local site. " This folder
Local root folder
can be on your local computer or it can be on a network server. If you work directly on the server, Dreamweaver
uploads files to the server every time you save.
Stores your files for testing, production, collaboration, and so on. Dreamweaver refers to this folder
Remote folder
as your "remote site" in the Files panel. Typically, your remote folder is on the computer where your web server is
running.
Together, the local and remote folders enable you to transfer files between your local hard disk and web server,
making it easy to manage files in your Dreamweaver sites.
The folder where Dreamweaver processes dynamic pages.
Testing server folder
For a tutorial on defining a Dreamweaver site, see www.adobe.com/go/vid0145.
September 4, 2007