Create a Site | Local Info | Remote Info | Connect to Site

All the material used in this tutorial web are referenced from the Help Manual of Macromedia Dreamweaver 4 / MX / MX2004/ 8.

In Dreamweaver, the word site is used as shorthand to refer to any of the following things:

• Website: a set of pages on a server, to be viewed by a visitor to the site using a web browser.
• Remote site: the files on the server that make up a website, from your (the author’s) point of view rather than a visitor’s point of view.
• Local site: the files on your local disk that correspond to the files in the remote site. You edit the files on your local disk, then upload them to the remote site.
• A Dreamweaver site definition: a set of defining characteristics for a local site, plus information on how the local site corresponds to a remote site

The first step in building your website is Defining Your Site. There are several Categories in the Site Definition window; we will focus our attention on the Local Info and the Remote Info. This is key since we will be building our website on our local computer, then publishing it on a remote webserver.

For Dreamweaver 4 or MX:

• Select Site > New Site from either the Site window or a blank document.

For Dreamweaver MX 2004/Dreamweaver 8:

• Select Site > Manage Sites from either the Site window or a blank document.
• In the Manage Sites dialog box, click New, and select Site from the pop-up menu.

The Site Definition dialog box appears. If the dialog box is showing the Basic tab, click Advanced.

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