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ASU English Home > Computing Support > Workshops and Tutorials > Tutorials > Setting up Dreamweaver MX 2004's Site Management Creating Local Sites | Configuring the Remote Site | Using the Site Management Tool Creating a Local Site: A local site—the local storage area for your Web site's files—requires a name and a local root folder where you plan to store all of the site's files. Create a different local site for each Web site you work on. The local root folder of your site should be a folder you set up specifically for that site. Don't use your disk as the site root, and don't use the Dreamweaver application folder. One good organizational approach is to create a folder named "Sites" or if you are on a Windows 98 computer use "My Webs", and then create local root folders inside that folder, one local root folder for each site you're working on. To create your local site: Choose Site > Manage
Sites > New Site. Enter the following options: In the Site Name, enter a name for the site. The site name appears in the Site window and on the Site > Open Site submenu. The name can be anything you like. You may wish to call this "personal" for your personal site or "work" for your work site. In the Local Root Folder, specify the folder on your local disk where site files, templates, and library items will be stored. When Dreamweaver resolves root-relative links, it does so relative to this folder. Click the folder icon to browse to and select the folder, or enter a path and folder name in the text field. If the local root folder does not yet exist, create it from within the file browsing dialog box. Here are some common ways to arrange your site:
For the Refresh Local File List Automatically option, indicate whether or not to automatically refresh the local file list every time you copy files into your local site. Deselecting this option improves the speed of Dreamweaver when copying such files, but when this option is deselected, the Local pane of the Site window does not automatically refresh. To manually refresh the Site window, click the Site window's Refresh button. To manually refresh the Local pane only, choose View > Refresh Local in the Site window. In the HTTP Address field, enter the URL that your completed Web site will use, so that Dreamweaver can verify links within the site that use absolute URLs. For example, the HTTP address for my public site is http://www.public.asu.edu/~hiroshi. For the Cache option,
indicate whether or not to create a local cache to improve the speed
of link and site management tasks. If you do not select this option,
Dreamweaver will prompt you again about creating a cache before it creates
the site. Generally, you should check this unless you are very low on
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