Dreamweaver Web page Production Tutorials: Publishing Web sites

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It is necessary to use the Dreamweaver MX 2004 site Manager to check and organize your Web site files before publishing the site. You can find broken links, bad code, and unused orphaned files for corrective and processing.

The steps are as follows: In the Edit View Point Site menu, select Check Site-wide links, the Results dialog box is displayed, as shown in the following figure:

The following figure is the inspector to check the site and the external site links to all the information, for external links, the Inspector can not judge the correct or not, please check yourself.

The image below is an orphan file found by the inspector, which is not used on your Web page, but is still stored in your website folder, and it will occupy an effective space after uploading and should be cleared. The elimination method is: first select the file, click Delete key, OK. These files are placed in the Recycle Bin.

If you do not want to delete these files, click the Save Report button (shown above), and in the dialog box that pops up, you give the report file a save path and file name. The report file is a list of check results. You can refer to this table for processing.

After the correction and collation, your site will be ready for release.

"Publish Site Actions"

If you are uploading files for the first time, your remote Web Server root folder is an empty folder when you follow these steps. If it is not an empty folder, otherwise attached.

When the server root folder is an empty folder, connect to the remote site, do the following:

In Dreamweaver MX 2004, select Sites > Manage sites. The "dwmx2004" in the Admin Site dialog box is set on page 5th of this tutorial, and if you want to recall, look at setting up the site.

Select a site (that is, the local root folder), and then click Edit.

Click the Basic tab at the top of the dialog box. When you set up a site earlier, you have filled in the first steps in the Basic tab, so click Next several times until the shared files step is highlighted at the top of the wizard. The following figure:

On the labeled "How do you connect to a remote server?" Pop-up menu, select FTP. Click Next to eject the following dialog box:

Please enter the following options:

Enter the host name of the server (must be filled in)

"What folder do you intend to store your files on the server?" "(You can leave it blank)

Enter your username and password in the appropriate text box.

The Use Secure FTP (SFTP) option. (Not checked)

Click Test Connection.

If the connection is unsuccessful, check your settings or consult your system administrator.

After you enter the appropriate information, click Next.

Do not enable file Save-back and remove for the site.

Click "Next".

Click Finish to complete the settings for the remote site.

Click Finish again to exit the Manage Sites dialog box.

"Upload File"

After you set up local and remote folders (empty folders), you can upload files from your local folder to your WEB server.

Do the following:

In the Files Panel (window > files), select the local root folder for the site.

Click the "Upload file" Blue arrow icon on the File Panel toolbar.

Dreamweaver MX 2004 Copies all files to the server's default remote root folder.

Most space providers set up a server default folder, create an empty folder under this folder by converting local view to remote view in the Files panel. Right-click on the folder, select "New Folder", enter a name, used as your remote root folder, the name and your local root folder name consistent, easy to operate.

For more intuitive operation, you can also maximize the files panel. Open the "Extend/collapse" button at the far right of the files panel, maximizing the file panel, the image below, the remote site content on the left, and the local file content on the right: (note) This is an example of expanding the folder to facilitate your observation for reference.

Click Dreamweaver MX 2004 to copy all files to the remote folder that you defined.

Tip: First upload must be clear to the network Space service provider designated server default folder for the Web page, under this folder to store your site files. Visit your Web site as: http://......./index.htm

If you set up a folder with the same name as the local root folder on the server's default folder, you will need to use this address to access your site: http://........./(your folder name)/index.htm

Upload completed, please enter the browse address in the browser, test your upload results.