Chapter 18. Moving Your Site to the Internet

Building web pages on your computer is a big accomplishment, but it’s not the whole job. Your beautifully designed and informative site will languish in obscurity unless you move it from your hard drive to a web server.

Fortunately, once your site is ready for prime time, you can put it on a server without ever leaving the comfort of Dreamweaver. The program includes simple commands for transferring files back and forth between the server and your desktop.

Depending on how you operate, choose one of these two methods to transfer your files:

  • If you’re the sole developer for a site, Dreamweaver’s Get and Put commands are the easiest way to go.

  • If, on the other hand, a group of people work on your site, Dreamweaver’s Check Out and Check In tools let you move files at will without wiping out others’ hard work. In addition, this group feature integrates seamlessly with WebDAV, an open-source file management tool that’s common at universities.

Either way, you begin by adding a "remote server” to your site.

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