Chapter 9: Managing And Viewing Websites; Site Management Features And Preferences - Adobe GOLIVE CS2 User Manual

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Chapter 9: Managing and viewing
websites

Site management features and preferences

About site management
A website is built from a collection of linked files. These files can contain objects such as HTML, images and media,
and scripts. Maintaining properly linked files and organizing the files into a logical hierarchy are important for
managing a site. GoLive offers several tools for managing and viewing sites.
Provides access to all of the site files and assets so that you can view and manipulate files and folders
Site window
within your site. It's good practice to maintain all your source files, data, HTML files, scripts, and media in the site
window. The site window not only helps you avoid breaking links and creating orphan files, it also gives you easy
access for fixing site file errors.
Graphical views Lets you look at the hierarchy of your site with different representations. Graphical site views are
useful for examining the navigation of your site, reviewing files, or establishing or correcting links.
Lets you manage your links. You can use this link management tool to change links and file
In & Out Links palette
references. For example, if you use an application other than GoLive to change the name of an image file, you can use
the In & Out Links palette to change all references in your site to the new file name.
See also
"About graphical site views" on page 214
"About GoLive sites" on page 145
"Changing all site URLs or links at once" on page 232
"About the site window" on page 202
"About site assets" on page 420
Specifying preferences and settings for websites
When you manage a website, it's important to specify several application-wide Site preferences and site-specific
settings that affect the site.
The Site preferences establish the way you manage all sites and include settings for general file and folder
management, Filename Constraints, Status, Clean Up Site, Upload/Export, Diagram Colors, and Diagram Link
Types. Two other categories of application-wide preferences that also affect the management of all sites are the Script
Library preferences and Internet preferences. The Script Library preferences include settings for how GoLive handles
JavaScripts, and the Internet preferences include settings for connectivity and network status.
In addition to the Site preferences, you can also specify site-specific settings for Publish Servers, URL Handling, URL
Mappings, Diagram Colors, Script Library, and others. The site-specific settings override the Site preferences.