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126 Chapter 10 Managing a Web Site with Projects
Understanding Projects
This section explains what a project is, the benefits of organizing your work in
projects, the different type of project folders you can use, and the project (.apf ) file.
What is a project?
A project is a collection of files that you use in your Web site or application. You can
include any type of file in your project, for example HTML files, Cascading Style
Sheets, images, scripts, application code, and more.
The Project tab on the Resources window provides easy access to the tasks you must
complete when working with projects. You can quickly select a project from the
drop-down project list at the top of the tab. You can use the project toolbar next to it
(see the tooltips for a description of each toolbutton). And below the projects list, in
the folders and files panes, you can quickly navigate the project files.
Why use projects?
Projects let you to create your own file system that contains only the files that you
need for developing your Web site. The benefits of projects include:
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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 Web site or application, you can copy it to a server with
confidence 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. This eliminates the need to perform the
operations on each individual file.
About project folders
Folders are the primary means of organizing files in your project . This section
describes the different types of folders that you can use in a project.
Physical folders
Physical folders are directly tied, or mapped, to a directory on your computer.
Physical folders are either manual-inclusive or auto-inclusive:
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Manual-inclusive folders require you to specify which files in the mapped
directory should be included in the folder. For example, you might have a folder
with ten files in it, only three of which are necessary for your Web site. You can
create a manual-inclusive folder, add just those three files, and ignore the other
seven.