DREAMWEAVER I: Introduction to Dreamweaver

Setting up

First: open Dreamweaver.

Today we will configure your "site." You'll have to do this once at home (or at your office) too, but you won't have to do it every time. You will have to do it again if you want to set up a new site (for instance, I have "sites" on my office machine for my darkwing account and for my library pages. My home machine has my darkwing pages and a bunch of others that my husband uses).

On the machines in this classroom, you can open Dreamweaver by clicking on the start menu and choosing:

• Programs
• Web Publishing
• Dreamweaver MX

Open the Site window by pulling down the "site" menu at the top and choosing "new site."

Change to the "Advanced" tab at the top. The advanced option looks exactly like the DW4 setup, so if you have DW4 in your office, this will look the same.

Set the options this way:

LOCAL info (on the left, choose "local"; this is likely the default)

Site name	(whatever you want; on my office machine I have "Lara" for my personal pages; "Science" for the Science Library pages, etc)
Local root folder	browse to the C: drive, then find the Guest folder. This will be different on your home or office machine; the idea is, you define a specific place on your hard drive where you'll store all the files you work on associated with this site.
HTTP address	http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~yourid **

REMOTE info

Access	FTP (after you choose this, other options will pop up)
FTP Host	darkwing.uoregon.edu
Host directory	public_html/
Login	yourid**
Password	at home, you might opt to key your password here and save. I don't, because it means anyone using my machine would have access to the site. See below about this.

** where it says darkwing, you might be keying gladstone. Where it says yourid, that means your username, such as, mine is lnessel

Go ahead and key your password and click test to make sure the connection works. Once it does, uncheck the save password box so this machine doesn't save your password.

Click OK to open the site.

If the "Files" panel on the right is collapsed (little triangle pointing right), expand it, and choose the "site" tab. Click the "connect" icon, which looks like two little plugs facing each other but not plugged in. In DW4 you can accomplish this by pulling down the "site" menu again and clicking "connect."

You should get a password prompt (key your password) and then see your darkwing/gladstone account files.

Notice the site tab has spaces for what site you are in (mine says Lara), and what view, which might say "remote" or "local". For the moment, you want it to say "remote."

Choose a page you have been working on, and download it to the local directory. There are a couple of ways to do this. One is to highlight your choice on the remote server and click the DOWN arrow at the top of the site tab. Another is to click the "expand" icon (tiny two-column window) and drag files. Another is to double-click the file. We will make changes and then if you like you can upload it back to darkwing (/gladstone).

Choose a fairly simple page if you have a choice. You may find it asks you a question about whether to include dependent files. Say yes; we'll come back to this.

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