Overview of Site Planning

• Esssential if you are using Dream,weaver for FTP

• With a defined site Dreamweaver will automatically track and maintain your links and manage files.

(1) Plan your site's goals and needs

• Think about the site's audience profile and site goals. Use a storyboard to map this out on paper.
  
• Think about your needs for graphics and audio visual and look for resources in software.
  
• Think about the site's hierarical file structure.
• Have a Home Page onto which the other Html pages can link. Call this page Index.html
• Use a Flow chart to aid your ideas.

(2) Setting up a site in Dreamweaver

(1) In Windows Explorer set up a folder into which the new site will go. Set up folders within it to hold graphics and text files.

(2) Now go to the Dreamweaver Site Menu and select new site. Select the Advanced Tab

(3) Filll in only the Local Info and Site Map Layout tabs

(4) In Local Info you must name your new site. Give a descriptive name so you can recognise site

(5) Locate its Local root folder in the folder just created

(6)Give a default folder for images. Then Dreamweaver will automatically send images here for storage

(7) The HTTP address is the web address to open the main Index page

(8) Make sure that cache is enabled.

(9) The Site Editor will open. You can start you new Index page by going to File Menu and New file.
Dreamweaver will open to start your new file.
Enter some simple detail into it a sentence! and save it using the name Index.html or Index.htm

(10) Go back to Site Menu and open up your new site. If you RIGHT CLICK on the Indexpage just created you can select SET AS HOME PAGE from the menu.

(11) You can now look at your new site structure in the Site Editor's Site Map.
In Dreamweaver MX 2004 to open this site structure panel go to Window - Files