Information Technology Reference
In-Depth Information
To Create a New Site in Dreamweaver
Go to
Site>Manage Sites.
This will open up the Manage Sites window and
allow you to set up the ftp information for your host and the local site that resides
on your hard drive. For the local site choose your site folder which contains all
of your site files including you are raw assets or choose only your root directory
which is your first initial and last name. If you choose only your root directory
you will not have access to any of the folders above it. You will have access to
all the HTML files and the image files that reside in the images folder within the
root directory. What's nice about having access to the files above the root
directory is that you can see the names and then double-click to open the files
within Adobe Photoshop or Macromedia fireworks. Once opened in the
image-editing applications you can change the files and then re-export them.
Once re-exported, the files will update any associated graphics within the Web
pages. Again, all you really need to do in the site panel is focus on the root
directory so that you can have access to the site files that will be uploaded. To
set up a local site all you need to do is select the folder where the site resides
on your hard drive. To get files up on the Internet you'll have to add host
information to the site management section of the site files. The host information
gets supplied by the host upon purchase of Web space. The host information
is needed to set up FTP access and upload site files. The host information
supplied will have:
•
Host
•
Directory
•
Login
•
Password
Managing Sites
The information provided is filled into the fields in the Manage Sites window in
Dreamweaver and then you can connect to the server from your desktop
computer. This log on brings you into the host computer and lets you put or get
files just as if you were working on your own hard drive. You need to upload
all the files for your Web portfolio into the server. Once files are uploaded, the
site should be live and up on the Web.
