Uploading & Managing your Web Pages

Site Management
Templates

 

Create your Local Site Folder
  • 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/
local site settings
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)

  • For Departmental & Institutional Pages
    • FTP Host = www3.bethel.edu
    • Host Directory= /var/www/cas/dept/yourdept


  • Login = youyou
  • Password = your password
remote site settings
Fill in the Site Map Layout
  • 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
Activate your Site Window (Mac View)

  • 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.