Transcript Defining the Site

Creating a Site
Defining the Local site
Setting up the Remote Site
Identifying the Testing Server
Defining the Site
Get Dreamweaver running. If the
Files window is not visible, pull down
the Window menu and choose Files.
On the Files tab of the Files window,
pull down the Sites menu and choose
Manage Sites.
When the Manage Sites dialog
appears, click the New button and
choose Site.
Local Info
In the Local Info category of the
advanced settings, type the name of
the site into the Site Name field.
Next to the Local root folder field,
use the Folder button to select or
create the folder in which you will
create the site on your local PC.
This local root folder should not be in
Web space.
Local Info Settings
Remote Info
(For Web server on FTP)
Click the Remote Info category to make
the remote info appear.
Pull down the Access menu and choose FTP;
the FTP settings appear.
In the FTP host field, type your FTP host,
such as: webs.oet.udel.edu
In the Host directory field, type your FTP
folder, such as: websites/yourLastName/
In the Login field, type your FTP login,
such as: fthStudents
Remote Info for FTP Access
Testing Server
(For Web server on FTP)
Click the Testing Server category to reveal
the Testing Server settings.
Pull down the Server model menu and choose
ASP JavaScript.
Pull down the Access menu and choose FTP;
the FTP settings appear.
Verify that the FTP settings are correct.
In this course, the URL prefix is:
http://webs.oet.udel.edu/fthStudents/yourLastName/
Testing Server for FTP Access
Remote Info
(For Web server on local PC)
Click the Remote Info category to
make the remote info appear.
Pull down the Access menu and choose
Local/Network if you have a Web
server running on your local PC.
Next to the Remote folder field, use
the Folder button to select or create
the remote folder, which must be in
Web space on your local PC.
Testing Server
(For Web server on local PC)
Click the Testing Server category to reveal
the Testing Server settings.
Pull down the Server model menu and
choose ASP JavaScript.
Pull down the Access menu and choose
Local/Network.
When the Testing server folder and the
URL prefix fields appear, verify that their
settings are correct.
Click OK and Done to close the dialogs.
Publishing Databases
If you plan to publish Access
databases for use with Dreamweaver
at your OET Web site, in this course,
you put the databases into your
fthstudents/databases folder, not
the fthstudents/websites folder.
The rest of this presentation shows
how to do this. If you are not
publishing a database, you can stop
here.
Defining the Database Site
Get Dreamweaver running. If the
Files window is not visible, pull down
the Window menu and choose Files.
On the Files tab of the Files window,
pull down the Sites menu and choose
Manage Sites.
When the Manage Sites dialog
appears, click the New button and
choose Site.
Local Info for the Database
In the Local Info category of the
advanced settings, type the name of
the site into the Site Name field.
Next to the Local root folder field,
use the Folder button to select or
create the folder in which you will
create the database on your local PC.
This local root folder should not be in
Web space.
Local Info Settings for a Database Folder
Remote Info
(For Database folder on OET server via FTP)
Click the Remote Info category to make
the remote info appear.
Pull down the Access menu and choose FTP;
the FTP settings appear.
In the FTP host field, type your FTP host,
such as: webs.oet.udel.edu
In the Host directory field, type your FTP
folder, such as: databases/yourLastName/
In the Login field, type your FTP login,
such as: fthStudents
Remote Info for FTP Access to Your OET Databases Folder