Macromedia studio 8-exploring studio 8 User Manual

140 Tutorial: Setting Up Your Site and Project Files

3.

Copy the cafe_townsend folder into the local_sites folder. 

The cafe_townsend folder is the folder that you will use as the root 
folder (main folder) for your Dreamweaver site.

Define a local folder

You must define a Dreamweaver local folder for each new website you 
create. The local folder is the folder that you use to store working copies of 
site files on your hard disk. If you don’t define a local folder, certain 
features in Dreamweaver cannot work properly.

Defining a local folder also allows you to manage your files and to transfer 
files to and from your web server by using a number of file-transfer 
methods.

Now you’ll define the cafe_townsend folder that you copied into the 
local_sites folder as your local folder.

1.

Start Dreamweaver and select Site > Manage Sites.

The Manage Sites dialog box appears.

2.

Click the New button and select Site.

The Site Definition dialog box appears.

3.

If the wizard (Basic tab) appears, click the Advanced tab and select Local 
Info from the Category list (it should be the default).

4.

In the Site Name text box, enter Cafe Townsend as the name of the site.

5.

In the Local Root Folder text box, specify the cafe_townsend folder that 
you copied to the local_sites folder in the previous section. 

You can click the folder icon to browse to and select the folder, or enter 
a path in the Local Root Folder text box.

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