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52 Tutorial: Setting Up Your Site and Project Files
3.
Copy the cafe_townsend folder into the local_sites folder.
The cafe_townsend folder is the folder that you will use as the root
folder (main folder) for your Dreamweaver site.
Define a local folder
You must define a Dreamweaver local folder for each new website you
create. The local folder is the folder that you use to store working copies of
site files on your hard disk. If you don’t define a local folder, certain
features in Dreamweaver cannot work properly.
Defining a local folder also allows you to manage your files and to transfer
files to and from your web server by using a number of file-transfer
methods.
Now you’ll define the cafe_townsend folder that you copied into the
local_sites folder as your local folder.
1.
Start Dreamweaver and select Site > Manage Sites.
The Manage Sites dialog box appears.
2. Click the New button and select Site.
The Site Definition dialog box appears.
3. If the wizard (Basic tab) appears, click the Advanced tab and select Local
Info from the Category list (it should be the default).
4. In the Site Name text box, enter Cafe Townsend as the name of the site.
5. In the Local Root Folder text box, specify the cafe_townsend folder that
you copied to the local_sites folder in the previous section.
You can click the folder icon to browse to and select the folder, or enter
a path in the Local Root Folder text box.