A Dreamweaver site consists of as many as three parts, depending on your 

computing environment and the type of website you are developing:

Local folder

 is your working directory. Dreamweaver refers to this folder as 

your local site. The local folder is usually a folder on your hard disk.

Remote folder

 is where you store your files, depending on your 

environment, for testing, production, collaboration, and publication. 

Dreamweaver refers to this folder as your remote site. The remote folder is a 

folder on the computer that's running your web server. The computer 

running the web server is often (but not always) the computer that makes 

your site publicly available on the web.

Folder for dynamic pages (Testing Server folder) 

is the folder where 

Dreamweaver processes dynamic pages. This folder is often the same folder 

as the remote folder. You do not need to worry about this folder unless you 

are developing a web application. For more information about the Testing 

Server folder, see  Specifying where dynamic pages can be processed  in 

Using Dreamweaver.

You can set up a Dreamweaver site by using the Site Definition Wizard, 

which guides you through the setup process, or by using the Site 

Definition Advanced settings, which let you set up local, remote, and 

testing folders individually, as necessary. In this tutorial you'll use the Site 

Definition Advanced settings to set up a local folder for your project files. 

Later in this book, you'll learn how to set up a remote folder so that you 

can publish your pages to a web server and make them publicly available.

For more information about how to use the Site Definition Wizard to set 

up a Dreamweaver site, see  Setting up a new Dreamweaver site  in Using 

Dreamweaver.

For more information about how to set up a remote site, see 

Chapter 7, 

 Tutorial: Publishing Your Site 

.

For more information about Dreamweaver sites in general, see  Setting Up 

a Dreamweaver Site  in Using Dreamweaver.

Set up your project files

When you create a local site, you can place any existing assets (images or 

other pieces of content) in the local site's root folder (the main folder for 

the site). Then when you're ready to add content to your pages, the assets 

are there and ready for you to use.

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