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What is a Project?
The project features allow you to create your own file system that contains only those
files you need to develop your Web site. The benefits of projects include the following:
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Projects make it possible to have all of the files you need to build your Web site
located in a central, easily accessible location. This means having access to the
files; the physical files themselves can be located anywhere on your local,
network, or remote drives.
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After completing your project, you can copy it to a server and feel confident that
no files are missing. This copying operation, also known as deploying or
uploading, allows you to develop and maintain site content locally.
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You can perform maintenance chores such as search and replace and link
verification on an entire project, eliminating the need to perform the
operations on each individual file.
Creating a Project
When you create a new project, you must specify a folder to hold the project file. This
folder must already exist somewhere on your computer. If the existing folder has files
and subfolders, you can add them to the project.
To create a new project:
1. Click the Projects tab at bottom of the Resources window.
2. Click the New Project icon at the top of the tab.
3. Make the following entries in the New Project dialog.
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Project Name — A descriptive name to display in the Projects list.
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Location of project file — Enter the path to folder in which you want the project
control file (apf) created. This is usually the project root folder.
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Select the Add all subfolders option to include all folders below the project root.
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Files types — You can accept the default All files or, if you want to limit the files
that are included in your project to certain types, open the drop-down list and
select the file types that you want to include. Alternatively, you can enter the file
extensions for the types you want included, separated by a semicolon.
4. Click OK to create the project structure and the project control file.