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Create a Dreamweaver
Site
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T
he Remote site is the location where users can view
your Web pages. After you have finished creating
and editing your Web pages in your Local site, you
move the completed files to the Remote site. Your Web site
might be located in a specific folder on your company
network, in a folder assigned to you by a Web hosting
company, or in a folder on your own computer if you run
your own Web server. If the Remote site is on a different
computer than the Local site, the files are moved via File
Transfer Protocol (FTP) or a local network that includes the
Remote site.
The Dreamweaver site organizes all the documents in your
Web site. It tracks and maintains links, manages files, and
handles the file transfers from your local site to your remote
site. Your Local site and your Remote site need to contain
the same hierarchical structure of folders to prevent
Dreamweaver from copying files from the Local site into
the wrong folder in the Remote site, and vice versa.
You can manage your files better if you create a folder on
your computer (that is, a Local site) that contains all your
Dreamweaver sites. Each site is stored in a folder named
with the Dreamweaver site name.
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You can create a folder to hold images, but
Dreamweaver does not require one.
! Click Select.
The Site Definition dialog box displays the
path to the Local root folder.
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Create a Dreamweaver Site (continued)
@ If you created a folder for your images, add its
path/filename to Default images folder.
# Type the URL that you will use to view your
Web pages.
In this example, the Local site is on a local
computer, so localhost is used.
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