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Creating a Website: The Missing Manual, 3rd Edition
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Creating a Website: The Missing Manual, 3rd Edition

by Matthew MacDonald
May 2011
Beginner content levelBeginner
584 pages
17h 42m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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Managing a Website

Most web page editors don’t limit you to working on a single page at a time. Dream-weaver, Expression Web, BlueGriffon, and Amaya all let you open more than one document simultaneously and switch among them using tabs at the top of the document window (see Figure 4-7). This is particularly handy if you need to make the same change to a whole batch of pages, or if you want to cut a bit of content from one page and paste it into another.

With tabbed editing, your web page editor creates a new tab each time you open a file. You can switch from one page to another by clicking the tabs, which usually sit above the top of the page (and underneath the editor’s menus and toolbars). Here, Amaya has three web pages open at once. To close a document, click the X on the right side of the tab.

Figure 4-7. With tabbed editing, your web page editor creates a new tab each time you open a file. You can switch from one page to another by clicking the tabs, which usually sit above the top of the page (and underneath the editor’s menus and toolbars). Here, Amaya has three web pages open at once. To close a document, click the X on the right side of the tab.

Along with the ability to edit more than one web page at once, many editors also let you manage your entire website. The following sections describe the process for Dreamweaver and Expression Web. In both cases, your first step is to define your site’s folders and files so your editor knows just which documents make up your site.

Note

A website is simply a collection of one or more web pages, along with any related files (like pictures). It’s often useful to manage all these files together in a web page editor. In some programs, creating a website makes available advanced features, ...

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