Macromedia Dreamweaver 8

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Macromedia Dreamweaver 8

• Appendix A
• Updating, Maintaining, and Publishing Your Web
  Site

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U n i t O b j e c t i v e s

• Update a growing site using templates
• Manage your site with Macromedia Contribute
• Maintain your site
• Test your Web pages
• Publish your site

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Update a Growing Site Using Templates

• Templates save development time, especially when
  different people will be creating pages in your
  site
• Templates ensure both continuity and flexibility
  throughout a Web site
• Templates simplify the updating process

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Update a Growing Site Using Templates

• To create a new template
• Click File on the menu bar, click New, click
  Template page, then double-click HTML template
• Click Insert on the menu bar, point to Template
  objects, click the region type you want to add,
  then add content for the region if necessary
• Click File on the menu bar, click Save As, type a
  template name, noting that the Template folder is
  the save location, and .dwt is the file extension
  for the template page, then click Save

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Update a Growing Site Using Templates

• To create a page based on a template
• Click File on the menu bar, click New, then click
  the Templates tab
• Click the site name, then double-click the
  template name
• Add text to the template regions, then save the
  page

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Update a Growing Site Using Templates
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Update a Growing Site Using Templates
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Managing your Site with Macromedia Contribute

• Advantages for Web professionals
• Consistency across the Web site
• Time savings
• Support for basic features
• Advantages for content contributors
• Ease of use
• More freedom for advanced users

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Managing your Site with Macromedia Contribute
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Managing your Site with Macromedia Contribute
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Maintaining Your Site

• Check links
• Organize the Assets panel

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Maintaining Your Site
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Testing Your Web Pages

• Site reports
• Site map
• Test pages
• Enjoy positive feedback and respond to negative
  feedback

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Testing Your Web Pages
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Testing Your Web Pages
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Publishing Your Site

• Using the Define Sites Remote Access dialog box
• Setting up FTP
• Using Put
• Synchronizing Files

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Publishing Your Site
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Publishing Your Site
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Clues to Use

• Choosing remote access options
• Remote access choices include FTP, Local/Network,
  RDS, SourceSafe Database, and WebDAV
• Local/Network refers to publishing a Web site on
  either the local drive or a local network drive

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U n i t S u m m a r y

• Update a growing site using templates
• Manage your site with Macromedia Contribute
• Maintain your site
• Test your Web pages
• Publish your site