Operation Manual

USING DREAMWEAVER

Working with Dreamweaver sites

Last updated 3/28/2012

It’s usually a good idea to download dependent files when checking out a new file, but if the latest versions of the

dependent files are already on the local disk, there’s no need to download them again. This is also true for uploading

and checking in files: no need if up-to-date copies are already at the destination.

If you deselect these options, your dependent files are not transferred. Therefore, to force the Dependent Files dialog

box to appear even when these options are deselected, hold down Alt (Windows) or Option (Macintosh) while

choosing the Get, Put, Check In, or Check Out commands.

FTP Connection Determines whether the connection to the remote site is terminated after the specified number of

minutes have passed with no activity.

FTP Time Out Specifies the number of seconds in which Dreamweaver attempts to make a connection with the remote

server.

If there is no response after the specified amount of time, Dreamweaver displays a warning dialog box alerting you to

this fact.

FTP Transfer options Determines whether Dreamweaver selects the default option, after a specified number of

seconds, when a dialog box appears during a file transfer and there is no user response.

Proxy Host Specifies the address of the proxy server through which you connect to outside servers if you are behind a

firewall.

If you are not behind a firewall, leave this space blank. If you are behind a firewall, select the Use Proxy option in the

Site Definition dialog box (Servers > Edit Existing Server (pencil icon) > More Options).

Proxy Port Specifies the port in your proxy or firewall through which you pass to connect to the remote server. If you

connect through a port other than 21 (the default for FTP), enter the number here.

Put Options: Save Files Before Putting Indicates that unsaved files are saved automatically before being put onto the

remote site.

Move Options: Prompt Before Moving Files on Server Alerts you when you attempt to move files on the remote site.

Manage Sites Opens the Manage Sites dialog box, where you can edit an existing site or create a new one.

You can define whether the types of files that you transfer are transferred as ASCII (text) or binary, by customizing

the FTPExtensionMap.txt file in the Dreamweaver/Configuration folder (on the Macintosh,

FTPExtensionMapMac.txt). For more information see, Extending Dreamweaver.

Managing Contribute sites

Adobe® Contribute® CS4 combines a web browser with a web-page editor. It enables your colleagues or clients to

browse to a page in a site that you created, and to edit or update the page if they have permission to do so. Contribute

users can add and update basic web content, including formatted text, images, tables, and links. Contribute site

administrators can limit what ordinary (non-administrator) users can do in a site.

Note: This topic assumes that you are a Contribute administrator.

As the site administrator, you give non-administrators the ability to edit pages by creating a connection key and

sending it to them (for information on how to do this, see Contribute Help. You can also set up a connection to a

Contribute site using Dreamweaver, which lets you or your site designer connect to the Contribute site and use all of

the editing capabilities available in Dreamweaver.