The most common approach to creating a website using Dreamweaver is to create and edit pages on your local disk, and then upload copies of those pages to a remote web server to make them publicly available. It’s possible to use Dreamweaver in other ways, but this guide assumes that you’re working locally and then uploading to a remote server.

To define the SJU Web site:

1. Choose Site > New Site. (That is, choose New Site from the Site menu.)
2. The Site Definition dialog box appears.

If the dialog box is showing the Advanced tab, click Basic.

3. In the text box, enter SJU Web to identify the site within Dreamweaver.



4. Click Next to proceed to the next step.
5. Select the No option when prompted to use server technology.



6. Click Next to proceed to the next step.
7. Select the option labeled “Edit local copies on my machine, then upload to server when ready (recommended).”
8. Click on the folder icon next to the text box to select the folder to store local files.



9. Go to the My Documents directory (Windows) or another folder of your choice to store the local files and click on the Create New Folder button.



10. Enter SJU Web and click Open.

    

11. Click the Select button.



12. Click Next to proceed to the next step.

    

13. Select Local/Network from the "How do you connect to the remote server?" pull-down menu.
14. Enter //webpub/www into the text box for "What folder on your server do you want to store your files in?".
15. Click Next to proceed to the next step.



16.  

• If you are the only person updating web pages for your area, select "No, do not enable check-in and check-out".

• If you are working with other to update web pages, select "Yes, enable check-in and check-out",

• Select "Dreamweaver should check it out.", and
• Enter your name and e-mail address.

  

17. Click Next to proceed to the next step.
18. Review the summary screen and verify the information is correct.


Summary screen without check-in/check-out.


Summary screen with check-in/check-out.

19. Click Done to create the site.

Once the site is created, you need to manuall add the folders within the site that you need to access. These folders include your area's pages on the site and core resources provided on the site, such as images.

1. Select SJU Web in the Site panel.



2. For each of the following folders, select New Folder from the Site menu and enter the appropriate folder name:
• css for style sheets
• i for core images
• Templates for templates
• scripts for server scripts

  
  (create new folder)


(enter folder name)

3. When all the folder are created, select all of them and click the Get button .



4. Dreamweaver will begin downloading the files within those folders.





5. When finished, the files will appear in the Site panel.

Finally, create folders for your web pages and get those files from the server following the steps above.

• Your folder will be the same as its path in your URL, but without the http://www.sju.edu. For instance, for information technology, the URL is http://www.sju.edu/infotech. This means the folder will be infotech.
• For longer URL's, you will need to create a folder and sub-folders. For instance, the Information Systems URL is http://www.sju.edu/infotech/infosystem. Therefore, the path is /infotech/infosystems. This means we'd have to create an infotech folder in the site and then an infosystems folder within the infotech folder.