Dreamweaver MX (and beyond)

Since Dreamweaver has many options for site management built in, you must set up a site in Dreamweaver and tell it where all of your files are stored locally and where the files will be stored on the internet.  To set up a site in Dreamweaver:

1. Choose Site-->New Site(or Manage Sites).
2. If Manage Sites was chosen, select New, then Site from the drop-down menu.
3. Type a name for your site.  For example, My Web Page. Click Next.
4. Accept No to Server Technology question and click Next.
   
5. Accept the edit local copies option, and click the folder icon next to the question asking you where you want to store your files.  Navigate to the folder where your webpages are on your machine. Click Select then click Next.
6. From the drop down menu asking about your connection, choose FTP.
7. When you choose FTP, the screen changes to show questions about your ftp connection fill in only the following fields.
8. Hostname: www.tarleton.edu
9. FTP Login: Your web page login name.
10. FTP password: Your web page password.  Click save if you are working on the same machine all of the time and want your password automatically saved.
11. Click Test Connection to see if you get a successful connection to the internet server.
12. Click Next.
13. If you see a screen that asks if you want to enable check in/check out, select 'Do not enable check in/check out'.
14. Finally, you'll see a summary of the information you just entered.  Click Done. If it takes you back to the Manage Sites screen, click done again.

Now to publish the page after you have saved it.  In the File window, click the filename of the file you want to upload or the entire site folder and then click the blue up arrow (Put Files).  When asked to send Dependent Files, click yes.

If you later want to retrieve files from the internet that you have published (for instance, if you lost your local copies) then use the drop-down box on the right inside the File window to select Remote View, select the files you want to get, and press the green down arrow (Get Files). This will pull these files into your local folder.

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