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I'd like to show you in Adobe Dreamweaver CS5
how the site setup process has been greatly simplified.
By coming to Site, New Site,
I can create my site for my files.
In the Site Setup dialog box we'll notice that we now only have two things
we need to answer to: the Site Name, such as My Site,
and the Local Site Folder where we'll store our files locally.
So clicking on the folder over here, finding some kind of folder that I can use
on my hard drive, opening that up and selecting it, we're done.
We've set up our site.
If there are other options we need to set up such as working with a remote server,
version control, etc, we can do that later.
Clicking Save will get my site created.
Over in the Files panel I can see the folder.
We can start adding files, we can start adding images,
whatever we need to do to get this thing working.
As you work through Dreamweaver, it's going to allow you to change those site settings.
For instance, if we connect to the remote host here to upload our FTP files,
Dreamweaver is going to open up that same Site Setup dialog box
and tell us what we need to do.
This option has been completed, and the servers are incomplete.
In the Servers Settings area, you can see over here that this has been greatly changed
from previous versions.
The servers you create here are used for things like collaboration
or deployment or a number of other scenarios.
Typically, the remote folder is on the computer where your web server is running.
If we come down here, we can add a new server by clicking the Plus.
This allows us to set up, let's say, our server name.
This is my host server.
I can do things like tell it what kind of connection I'm going to use,
I can add the FTP address--I'll say mysite.com--
we can insert any user name password necessary,
we can enter root directories.
If there are other settings necessary to get the FTP connection to work,
come down here to More Options.
I can click on the arrow and you'll see things like passive FTP, proxy, etc.
If I come up to the Advanced Settings at the very top up here and click on them,
we'll see that we can do things like maintain synchronization information,
upload files on save,
enable file checkout so others can see that we have it available or checked out.
And if we're creating a testing server, we can pick a server model.
This is my host. We don't need to do this testing server, so I will click Save.
If you look in the dialog box here, you'll see the name of the server,
the address of the server, what type of connection,
and over here in CS5 we can see whether it's remote, testing, or both.
If we decide we want to set up a remote server and a testing server, for instance,
I'm going to create some PHP pages which are dynamic.
I want to do them on my machine.
I want to be able to test them, edit them.
I can set up a separate testing server for that.
So if I click Add New Server, it's going to allow me to set up a testing server,
and I can name this whatever I want.
I can typically connect using something like Local Network if it's on my machine,
I can go to the server folder, find out where my server is located,
grab the folder there, select it, and enter my Web URL.
This allows me to test directly on my machine.
Now, if I go to the Advanced Settings here,
once again, Remote Server settings, in this case this is going to be a testing server.
So I'll go to the server model, choose what type of testing server it's going to be.
Mine will happen to be PHP MySQL.
I can click Save, and you'll see that I now have two servers listed.
One is my host server, one is my testing server,
and I can switch between one or the other to tell it whether it's remote or testing.
If you decide that you don't need a server, you can always remove
or delete a server from the list by clicking on the minus down here.
We can edit a server or duplicate one.
We also have other options such as Version Control over on the left over here.
Dreamweaver can connect to a server that uses something called subversion or SVN.
This is a version control system that lets users edit and manage files on a remote web server
and do it collaboratively.
We enter our information here, and we're able to use that type of server.
This is a different type of server than your remote servers or your remote folders.
If I come up to Access here, I'm going to choose None since I don't want to do that.
Come over to Advanced Settings, click on those.
A lot of these settings are the same that we've seen in previous versions
such as Local Info.
You'll be able to set up your links relative to your document or site, enable caching.
Cloaking allows us to tell it, if we're going to upload files to a remote folder
or remote server, what files and what extensions are not going to go,
what extensions are not going to be FTPed or copied.
Design Notes. We can maintain design notes.
We can also upload them for sharing if we like.
File View Columns allow us to edit how the file view in the Files panel looks.
We can do things like remove some of these, we can edit them,
we can change their ordering if we like.
Contribute.
The advanced setting over there allows us to enable this site to work with Contribute,
which is a separate product that allows you to have end users
that don't need to learn Dreamweaver to make edits to pages.
Come to Templates over here.
We can do things like have it not rewrite the relative document paths.
And our Spry folder.
Tell it where this is located so that our assets are always stored in the same place.
Once we set up the Site Setup dialog box, we're all done.
We can always come back in here.
But I'll click Save, and I've got everything created.
So as you can see, the site setup in Dreamweaver CS5 has been greatly simplified
from previous versions.
This allows us to get to work faster without the site setup frustration
that some of us have felt in the past.
