You’ve made your website in Dreamweaver and want to upload or publish it to your host webspace. When uploading or publishing your web page files for the first time with Dreamweaver you first need to ‘Define’ where you want to ‘Put’ your local and remote files.

In this example we use PowWeb as our host and Dreamweaver MX 2004 screenshots.

Open Dreamweaver and Click on Sites> Edit Sites (or New Site) It may also be called “Manage Sites” or “Define Site.”

Edit Site

1) In the Edit Site box that comes up, click on the Edit (or New) button.

Add a Site Name

2) Enter a name for your site — click Next

No Server Tech

3) Tick “No, I do not want to use a server technology” – click Next

Local Files

4) Tick “Edit local copies on my machine, then upload to server when ready” You can set a folder to store a local copy of your website files here, or leave the default – click Next

FTP Info

5) For “How do you connect to your remote server?” chose “FTP”
For “What is the hostname or FTP address of your Web server” type in: ftp.powweb.com
For “What folder on your server do you want to store your files in?” type in: htdocs
If you want to publish to a sub directory use: htdocs/foldername
Type your FTP username and password in and Tick “Save”
Test your connection — click Next

Check In

6) Tick “No, do not enable check in and check out” – click Next

Check Info

7) Double check all of your information.

Passive Mode

8) Click the Advanced tab> Remote Info> tick “Use passive FTP” – click OK

Edit Local

9) In the Edit Site box — click Done

Next we need to be sure your home page is named index when we publish to PowWeb. Locate your home page in the main window and click File> Save As> type in index.htm or index.html and make sure it is saving to the local folder we set earlier. Now you can connect to the server and upload or publish your Dreamweaver web site.

Remote Site

10) Click Window> Site> to open the Site panel

11) Click the “Connect to remote server” button – 

12) Select all your website files and click the “Put” button – 

THINGS TO NOTE

Now go and check out your new Dreamweaver website!! Enjoy.

Written by
Croc Hunter
streetsie.com