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.

NOTE: Before setting up the Test site, you must setup the "Production" site. For instructions see "How-to Create the "SJU Web" site.

You should understand the difference between the "Test" site and the "Production" site before using Dreamweaver. See "What's the difference between the www.sju.edu and test-www.sju.edu?" for more information.

To define the Test 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 Test 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 folder you created when you setup the "Production" server. Typically, this is a folder in your MyDocuments folder called SJU Web.



10. Click the Select button.



11. Click Next to proceed to the next step.

    

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



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• 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.

You can access the "Test" server through your browser at http://test-www.sju.edu.

Your folder will be the same as its path in your URL, but without the http://test-www.sju.edu. For instance, for information technology, the URL is http://test-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://test-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.