Tutorial: Setting Up Your 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.

Comments

Tugarma said on Apr 20, 2006 at 8:36 PM :

It would be nice if the Tutorials could be downloaded.
Trying to run a Tutorial and DreamWeaver in the Monitor screen is quite dificult.

jonmichael said on Apr 21, 2006 at 10:55 AM :

All of the Dreamweaver tutorials are available for download in PDF format on the documentation center:

http://www.macromedia.com/support/documentation/en/dreamweaver/

Barking Buffalo said on Dec 23, 2006 at 5:42 PM :

Someone found it difficult to switch between the tutorials and Dreamweaver.

To make it very simple in Windows, simply use the Alt-Tab function which allows you to immediately and seamlessly switch between applications; in this case, between Firefox (if you have the preferred browser installed) and Dreamweaver.

FW2007 said on Mar 12, 2007 at 5:41 PM :

Having dual monitors is really nice for this purpose.