July 2012
Intermediate to advanced
1034 pages
38h 32m
English
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Setting Up a Site
Whenever you build a new website or want to edit a site you created outside of Dreamweaver, you have to introduce the program to the site—a process Dreamweaver calls setting up a site. This is the most important first step when you start using Dreamweaver, whether you plan to whip up a 5-page site, build a 1,000-page online store, or edit the site your sister built for you. At its most basic, defining a site lets Dreamweaver know where you store your web pages on your computer. It also helps Dreamweaver correctly insert images and add links from one page to another in your site. In addition, if you want to take advantage of Dreamweaver’s many timesaving site-management tools, such as the link checker (see Find and Fix Broken Links), Library items (Chapter 18), templates (Chapter 19), and FTP feature for moving your files to a web server (Chapter 17), you have to set up a site.
There are a lot of ways to configure a site, depending on your needs. For example, if you’re ready to move pages to the Web, you need to tell Dreamweaver how to connect to your web server. But to get started with a new site, you only need to provide a couple of pieces of information:
Choose Site→New Site to open the Site Setup window (see Figure 1-12).
You’ll supply the basics of your site here.
In the “Site name” field, type a name for your site.
The name you type here is solely for your own reference, to help you identify the site when it appears in the Files panel; the name won’t show up on ...
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