3.1 Setting up the Local Site

When starting a new website in Macromedia Dreamweaver MX, you'll need to estab 

lish the Local site on your computer.  Once this is set up, you can begin creating and 

designing web pages, and adding all of the other things that will go into your site, 

such as images, non html documents, and maybe even audio and video files.  You can 

worry about setting up the connection to the Remote site later, for now you should 

just be concerned with the Local site.

1.

Choose Site > New Site from either menu bar or the Site panel.

2.

Click the Advanced tab in the Site Definition dialog box.

3.

Choose the Local Info category.

4.

Enter information for the following fields:

Figure 3 1 Site Definition settings

5.

Click OK.

Site Name

The name of the local website as you would like to refer to 

it in Dreamweaver MX.  This is not the same as the name 

of the local website folder.  See  Creating a Local Site 

Folder  on page 4.

Local Root Folder

The location of the local website folder.  Click the folder 

image next to the field to browse.

Refresh Local File List 

Automatically updates the local file list when files are cop 

Automatically

ied into or renamed within the folder.  It is a good idea to 

leave this option selected.

Default Images Folder

Optional.  If images outside of the website folder are 

inserted onto a page, the image file will be copied to this 

folder.

HTTP Address

Optional.  Refer to the description in the dialog box.

Cache

Optional.  Refer to the description in the dialog box.

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