Hands-on web training

Using Dreamweaver

Define your site

This process makes it possible for FTP to work without confusion.

If you are using the Dreamweaver FTP option, this is how you set that up. Note: You will need to go through this once for each computer you are using, for each site you want to define. e.g.

1. Open Dreamweaver to a blank page, or to any existing web page of your mirror site.

2. Choose: Site > Manage Sites... > New... > Site

3. Choose the Basic or Advanced tab (the Basic is easier)
- The pages linked above, filled in with correct information, will lead you through the set-up process.

4. When you've gone through the process, click on "done" and a window labeled "files" will open. This "site window" is your path to the Dreamweaver FTP utility.

From now on Dreamweaver will know where your site folder is and will be able to work more smoothly and use all of its features.

Notes:

You don't absolutely need the site window when you're not FTPing, so you can close it.
- However, it is a good idea to get used to opening files from this while working on a PC - otherwise, you may have trouble with your file names and links.
"Manage Sites" remains a useful tool. Use it to
- edit details of your site, if they change
- move to another site, if you're working on a different defined Dreamwaver site
In some versions of Dreamweaver, you have to choose "Manage Sites" and then choose the site you're working on, in order to make valid links from one page to another on your own HD.

E.g., if you'd like to define -
- A second site to handle pages you edit on the Staff Web
- A site to edit your own personal pages
- A site on the HD of another computer