Dreamweaver MX 2004 Introductory Tutorial release site (1)

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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. Management Site dialog box "Web Teaching Network", where this site before we make the site has been set up.

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

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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:

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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.