Chapter 4: Tutorial: Setting Up Your Site And Project Files; Learn About Dreamweaver Sites - MACROMEDIA STUDIO 8-EXPLORING STUDIO 8 Manual

CHAPTER 4
Tutorial: Setting Up Your
Site and Project Files
This tutorial introduces you to the concept of a Macromedia Dreamweaver
8 site and shows you how to set up the project files for the Cafe Townsend
sample website. In Dreamweaver, a site generally consists of two parts: a
collection of files on a local computer (the local site), and a location on a
remote web server that you upload the files to when you're ready to make
them publicly available (the remote site). You use the Dreamweaver Files
panel to manage the files for your site.
The most common approach to creating a website with Dreamweaver is to
create and edit pages on your local disk, and then upload copies of those
pages to a remote web server for viewing on the web. In this tutorial you'll
only learn how to set up the local site so that you can begin building web
pages right away. Later, after you've completed the website, you'll learn how
to create a remote site so that you can upload your files to a web server.
In this tutorial, you will complete the following tasks:

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Set up your project files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139
Define a local folder . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140
Learn about Dreamweaver sites
In Dreamweaver, the term "site" can refer either to a website or to a local
storage location for the documents that belong to a website. The latter is
what you need to establish before you begin building your website. A
Dreamweaver site organizes all of the documents associated with your
website and lets you track and maintain links, manage files, share files, and
transfer your site files to a web server.
Macromedia HomeSite and ColdFusion Studio users can think of a
Dreamweaver site as being like a HomeSite or Studio project.
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