You’ve now
created a small but functional website. The next step is to publish it by
uploading the files to a remote web server.
Before you
can proceed, you must have access to a remote web server (such as your ISP’s
server, or a server owned by the client
you’re working for, or an intranet server within your company, or an IIS or
PWS server on a Windows computer). If
you don’t already have access to such a server, contact your ISP, your client,
or your system administrator.
The
following procedure works best if your
remote root folder is empty. If your remote site already contains files, then
create an empty folder in your remote site (on the server), and use that empty
folder as your remote root folder.
To connect to a remote site:
1.
Choose Site > Manage Sites.
2.
Select a site and click Edit.
3.
Click the Basic tab at the top of the dialog box.
4.
You’ve already filled in the first few steps in the
Basic tab, when you set up your local site, so click Next a few time, until the
Sharing Files step is highlighted at the top of the wizard.
5.
In the pop-up menu labeled “How do you connect to your
remote server?”. Choose a method for connecting to the remote site.
The most common method for
connecting to a server on the Internet is FTP;
the most common method for connecting a server on your intranet is
Local/Network. If you aren’t sure what to choose there, ask the server’s system
administrator.
6.
If you choose FTP, enter the following options:
·
Enter the hostname of the server (such as ftp.macromedia.com).
·
In the text box that asks what folder contains
your files, enter the path on the server from the ftp root folder to the remote
site’s root folder. If you’re not sure, consult your system administrator.
In many cases, this text box
should be left blank.
·
Enter your user name and password in the
appropriate text boxes and click Test connection.
·
If the connection is unsuccessful, consult your
system administrator.
7.
If you choose Local/ Network, then click the folder
icon next to the text box and browse to the remote site’s root folder.
8.
Click Next.
9.
Don’t enable check-in and check-out for this site.
If you and your co-workers are
working together on a larger site, check-in and check-out help to prevent you
from overwriting each others files. For this site, though, you don’t need this
feature.
10.
Click Next.
11.
Click Done to finish setting up the remote site.
12.
Click Done again to finish editing the site.
To upload your pages to a remote site:
1.
In the Site panel, select the site’s local root folder.
2.
Click the Put Files button.
All of the site’s files are
uploaded to the remote site.
3.
Open your remote site in a browser to make sure
everything uploaded correctly.
Copy a Folder to Your site
Before you
start the lessons, you need to set up a site and copy a folder into the site.
The integrated file browser in the Site panel enables you to view your local
disk and network. This is useful for working with files that are not in the
current site showing in the Site panel.
To copy pages to your site:
1.
Choose Window > Site to open the Site panel, if it’s
not already open.
2.
In the Site panel, from the site pop-up menu, select
the name of the site you defined in the previous chapter.
If you have not defined a site,
see set up a local site. You need to define a site before you continue.
3.
When you select the site name from the pop-up menu,
Dreamweaver displays the files in the site
4.
Expand the Desktop icon to see your available disks.
5.
Expand folders.
6.
Press Control+C to copy it.
7.
Scroll back to the top of the Site panel, and select
the site folder.
8.
Press Control +V to paste a copy of the folder in your
site.
View the finished pages.
Before
you start, you can view finished pages to see how your pages might look. Of
course, your pages may vary.
- Choose window > site to open the Site panel, if it’s not already open.
- Expand the desktop icon to see your available disks.
- Expand folders as necessary to reach the Dreamweaver application folder, and then expand the Samples folder.
- In the folder, double-click index.html to open it.
Dreamweaver displays the pages in
the Document window.
- Close the pages when you are finished.
Note: If you just want to practice-How
to publish your web then just enter into the www.geocities.com
having your yahoo ID and then publish your newly designed web easily.
