Learn how to make your site live

Define your site in Dreamweaver. Follow the steps given below and you can upload and publish pages very easily.

Steps to Making your Site Live

1. Open Dreamweaver
2. Click on Define Sites.. under the Site drop down menu
3. In the Define Site box, click on the New button
4. Here you need to enter the details of your site:
   • Enter a name for your site e.g. mysite
   • In the local root folder box select your local root folder by using the folder icon

   You can ignore the rest of the details required

   Here's a screenshot of what it should look like - /

    



 

5. Follow this most important step

In the category box select Remote Info. Here you have to fill out your ftp information to establish a connection to the remote server.

In the Remote Info panel select FTP in the Access drop down menu and type the following:

FTP Host: (your ftp host - it could be an IP address or your web site URL)

Login: (username)

Password: (password)

Host Directory: (this is the directory for your site - it could be the site root folder or a 'www' folder etc.)

The screenshot will look like -

 



 

Once you entered all then click OK


6. If you're entered all the details correctly then you'll be connect to the remote folder and upload your files. Click Connect from the Site drop down menu. If everything perfect, you should be able to connect to the remote site and see all remote files in the left panel.

7. Select the local folder and click Put from the Site drop down menu to upload the entire site to your remote site.
8. Once your entire local folder is uploaded to the remote folder you can check your site online.
   Note: Get is for downloading files and Put is for uploading files.

If you found any problems please look into the Dreamweaver help files for troubleshooting.