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Defining a Local Site

The ﬁrst step of creating a Website—before you begin to create any individual pages—is

to designate or create the folder on your computer that will contain everything within your

site. This process is called deﬁning a local site. The designated folder, known as the local

root folder,sets the boundaries of the local site that resides on your hard disk and mirrors

the remote site, which is the actual site on the Web server that your visitors will access.

Deﬁning a local site enables you to maintain the same folder hierarchy between the local

and remote versions, which is crucial to creating and maintaining a functional site.

The creation of a local site, composed of the local root folder within which you set up the

structure of the site’s ﬁles and folders, prevents your site from storing any site ﬁles outside

of the local root folder. The ﬁles on your hard disk that are outside of the local root folder

cannot be transferred to the remote server. This restriction ensures that as you develop

your site, you won’t access ﬁles that aren’t available when the site is made available online.

Many Dreamweaver features, such as the potential to update all references to a ﬁle that

may have been moved to a different location in the site, require the deﬁnition of a local

site to fully function. You should make a practice of always creating and working within

local sites. If you don’t, you might have problems with links, paths, and ﬁle management

(Dreamweaver’s tools for these features are covered in later lessons of this book).

The development of your site occurs in the local site on your hard disk, in which you

build and initially test your pages.

Setting up a site is not required, although it is recommended. Dreamweaver

will allow you to quickly edit, connect, and transfer ﬁles without setting up a site.

You’ll learn more about managing your site in Lesson 14.

1. Copy the DW8_YogaSangha folder from the CD-ROM to your hard disk.

The DW8_YogaSangha folder will become the local root folder of your site. This folder

contains all the ﬁles and folders for the Yoga Sangha project site that you will re-create

portions of as you work through the lessons in this book. When you begin work on your

own sites, you will need to create an individual local root folder for each site.

The name of a local root folder can be the name of the respective site or any name you

choose. If you develop multiple sites, it is helpful to use names that are descriptive and can

be distinguished easily from one another. The name of the local root folder is simply for

ﬁle management purposes and is not visible to the visitors of the site.

Save your local root folder in a location on your hard disk that is outside the Dreamweaver 8

application folder. If you ever need to reinstall Dreamweaver, your work will be lost if it is

located inside the Dreamweaver 8 application folder.

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