Create a new folder on your hard drive or on your Home
Folder on Usonia
Name this new folder with a tilda followed by your
logon name (e.g. ~kisrob)
Place all files and folders for your web site into
this folder. You may want to organize your folder with
subfolders (subdirectories) by placing a folder for
each course and even within that folder other subfolders
for assignments, images, etc.
Create your Site Settings
Open Dreamweaver and select New
Site or Define Sites
from the Site menu
Fill in the
Local Info blocks (click link for Mac view)
Site Name Fill in a name of your choice
Local Root Folder (Click folder icon to the right
of the Local Root Folder blank and locate your
local web folder. All web materials should go in
this web folder.
Local Remote Folder bsp-nas/public_html
HTTP Address
For Department sites: http://cas.bethel.edu/dept/yourdepartment/
For Personal Sites:
http://people.bethel.edu/~username/
Fill in the Remote Info settings
Access =
Select WebDAV in this drop-down
For Personal (~) Web Pages
URL =https://bsp-nas-dav.bethel.edu/Home*/username/public_html/ (* = first letter of username in Capital)
Click on the Folder to locate your Home Page on your local
folder. Hint if you use the name index.html, the directory
name automatically opens up your home "index"
page (e.g. http://www.bethel.edu/its/is/teaching-technology/Dreamweaver
opens up the home page index.html in the Dreamwearver web
folder with the following directory structure- http://www.bethel.edu/its/is/teaching-technology/Dreamweaver/index.html
Select your site (If your Site Window is not open, go
to the Site Menu and
select Site Files
Click on the Connect button and you should see the structure
of your Remote
Site folder on the left side of the site window.
The Get
button copies the selected files from the remote site to
your local site folder. You can use this to create a local
folder if you already have an existing site that you want
to load into Dreamweaver. BE CAREFUL
as you can overwrite any existing folders/files with the
same names on your local folder.
Create a new Directory
You can create new directories either in your Local Folder
or your Remote SiteClick in the Remote Site Window on the
left or in the Local Folder Window on the right. (Be
very careful what you do here and check all addresses to
be certain that you are in the right directory and that
you will not be replacing any directory that already exists.)
Mac: From the Site
menu select: Site Files View
> New Folder
Windows: From the File
menu select: File
> New Folder
Rename a Directory or file by selecting the Folder or
File and Select Site
> Rename
To Delete a Directory or File
Select the file or folder in either Site Window and select
Clear
from the Edit
menu, or simply hit the Delete
(PC
Delete or Backspace)
key on your keyboard (Be Careful!!!!!!)
Upload your site or individual files
Select the folder or file in the Local Folder window
of the Site Window
Click on the Put
button, which copies the selected files from the local site
folder to the remote site.