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Understanding projects
This section describes the following topics HomeSite+ for Dreamweaver MX projects
and how to structure them to fir your requirements.
What is a project?
A project is a collection of files that you use to develop and maintain your website.
You can include any type of file in your project; for example, HTML files, Cascading
Style Sheets, images, scripts, application code, and more. You can access these files
from the Projects resource tab, regardless of where the physical files are located.
A project lets you create your own file system that contains only the files that you
need for your website. This is especially useful if you do not have control of the
physical disk drives in which the files are located; for example, on remote drives.
Why use a project?
These are some of the benefits of using projects:
• A project lets you access every file in your website from one central location, the
• If your website is contained in a project, you can copy it to a server, with
• You can perform maintenance tasks—such as search and replace and link
About project folders
Folders are the means of organizing the files in a project.
There are different types of folders:
• A virtual folder contains references to files from any number of directories on
• A physical folder is mapped to a single directory on a disk drive. You can filter the
Projects resource tab, even if the physical files are located in different local,
network, and remote directories.
confidence that no files are missing. This operation is known as deployment. For
more information, see
verification—on an entire project, in one operation.
any number of disk drives.
contents of a directory to exclude a type of file; for example, images or scripts.
There are two types of physical folders: manual-include and auto-include.
"Deploying Files" on page
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