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Chapter 9: Managing and viewing
websites
Site management features and preferences
About site management
A website is built from a collection of linked files. These files can contain objects such as HTML, images and media,
and scripts. Maintaining properly linked files and organizing the files into a logical hierarchy are important for
managing a site. GoLive offers several tools for managing and viewing sites.
Site window Provides access to all of the site files and assets so that you can view and manipulate files and folders
within your site. It’s good practice to maintain all your source files, data, HTML files, scripts, and media in the site
window. The site window not only helps you avoid breaking links and creating orphan files, it also gives you easy
access for fixing site file errors.
Graphical views Lets you look at the hierarchy of your site with different representations. Graphical site views are
useful for examining the navigation of your site, reviewing files, or establishing or correcting links.
In & Out Links palette Lets you manage your links. You can use this link management tool to change links and file
references.For example, if youuse an applicationother than GoLive to change thenameofanimage file,you canuse
the In & Out Links palette to change all references in your site to the new file name.
See also
“About graphical site views” on page 214
“About GoLive sites” on page 145
“Changing all site URLs or links at once” on page 232
“About the site window” on page 202
“About site assets” on page 420
Specifying preferences and settings for websites
When you manage a website, it’s important to specify several application-wide Site preferences and site-specific
settings that affect the site.
The Site preferences establish the way you manage all sites and include settings for general file and folder
management, Filename Constraints, Status, Clean Up Site, Upload/Export, Diagram Colors, and Diagram Link
Types. Twoother categories of application-widepreferences that also affect themanagementofall sitesare theScript
Library preferences and Internet preferences. The Script Library preferences include settings for how GoLive handles
JavaScripts, and the Internet preferences include settings for connectivity and network status.
In addition to the Site preferences, you can also specify site-specific settings for Publish Servers, URL Handling, URL
Mappings, Diagram Colors, Script Library, and others. The site-specific settings override the Site preferences.