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Dr. Luanne Eris Fose Revised July 30, 2004

The Importance of Site Management

File management is one of the biggest challenges of building a web site. Web sites require the

creation of many documents and their properties all at once due to numerous text and image

files. Organization, folder structure, and consistent naming conventions of all the pages and

graphics are a very important part of building a web site.

In addition, the fact that most people build web sites from their hard drive and then upload the

files to a web server when they finish just compounds the organizational problem! For

example, if you created content in folders on your hard drive and called the folders “HTML” and

“Images,” you would need to replicate this EXACT folder structure when you uploaded the files

to your web server or the links to your files would be broken.

Dreamweaver has created a site-management scheme that helps alleviate this problem by

requiring that you keep all your files within one main “root” folder so that you can easily

duplicate the folder structure that is on your hard drive when you upload the folders to a web

server. A root folder is not any different from any other kind of folder on your hard drive

except that you have specified to Dreamweaver that all your web development will take place

within that folder. The advantage of this system is that if you decide at a later time to change

the folder hierarchy of your site by adding a folder or changing a folder name, these changes

can be made easily. If you were to hand-code the pages instead and decided to make changes

mid-stream, it would be quite a painful process to check all the links and file names (I know

first hand… I did it once!) Dreamweaver can make this process painless as long as you choose

to work within its site-management scheme.

DEFINING A SITE – THE KEY TO SUCCESS

You will be working with a folder containing HTML and image files called “mx2004_website”

that has already been placed in the My Documents folder on the Desktop of your computer in

the Training lab. The path to this folder is My Documents>Class Materials>Dreamweaver

MX 102-LFose>mxwebsite.

1. From the Site menu at the top of Dreamweaver, select Manage Sites… Dreamweaver will

open the Manage Sites window. Click on the New button and from the submenu, select

Site. Dreamweaver defaults to opening the Site Definition window with the Basic tab

selected. The Basic tab will take you through a series of questions (a sort of wizard) to help

you create the settings for your site definition. For the purposes of this tutorial, click on the

Advanced tab to bypass this.

2. With the Advanced tab selected, make sure that Local Info is highlighted in the Category

area on the left of this window. For the Site Name:, type “mx2004_website” (Note: For

Local Info this is an internal naming convention so you can use any kind of name you wish

without worrying about whether or not to use spaces or capitalization)

3. Click on the small yellow folder icon to the right of the Local Root Folder: text box.

Navigate to the mx2004_website folder that is in the My Documents folder on the Desktop

of your computer. (Remember the exact path is My Documents>Class Materials>

Dreamweaver MX 102-LFose>mx2004_website) Click on the mx2004_website folder

once

and click the Open button; then click on the Select button. Note: DO NOT highlight

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