CHAPTER 3

Tutorial: Setting Up Your 

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Site and Project Files

This tutorial introduces you to the concept of a Macromedia Dreamweaver 

8 site and shows you how to set up the project files for the Cafe Townsend 

sample website. In Dreamweaver, a site generally consists of two parts: a 

collection of files on a local computer (the local site), and a location on a 

remote web server that you upload the files to when you're ready to make 

them publicly available (the remote site). You use the Dreamweaver Files 

panel to manage the files for your site.

The most common approach to creating a website with Dreamweaver is to 

create and edit pages on your local disk, and then upload copies of those 

pages to a remote web server for viewing on the web. In this tutorial you'll 

only learn how to set up the local site so that you can begin building web 

pages right away. Later, after you've completed the website, you'll learn how 

to create a remote site so that you can upload your files to a web server.

In this tutorial, you will complete the following tasks:

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Set up your project files  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50

Define a local folder . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52

Learn about Dreamweaver sites

In Dreamweaver, the term  site  can refer either to a website or to a local 

storage location for the documents that belong to a website. The latter is 

what you need to establish before you begin building your website. A 

Dreamweaver site organizes all of the documents associated with your 

website and lets you track and maintain links, manage files, share files, and 

transfer your site files to a web server.

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Macromedia HomeSite and ColdFusion Studio users can think of a 

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Dreamweaver site as being like a HomeSite or Studio project.

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