macromedia Dreamweaver 8

Connecting to a Remote Site

In Lesson 1, you created a local site—that is, a folder on your hard drive to store all the folders and files needed for your site. Throughout Lessons 2 through 13, you developed pages in the local site. When you create your own sites, however, you need to copy your local files to a remote site after you have completed the production phase of creating your site for visitors to see the Web pages. Typically, the remote site is on a server specified by your host, Web administrator, or client, but it can also be on a local network.

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It is a good idea to transfer your site to a live server—ideally the one on which the site will actually reside—and test that site to be sure that everything works as expected. Because ...