Editing with Adobe Dreamweaver via a Network Drive
The Dreamweaver program can connect to a web site in multiple ways. This document describes how to connect to a network drive. If you have not already connected to a network drive, do it now and, if needed, use the Macintosh or Windows online documentation.
Define a Site
1. Choose Site > New Site from the menu bar. This starts the Site Definition wizard.
2. Type a name for your site in the Site Definition wizard and click the Next button to continue. Any descriptive name will do.
Figure 1: Name a new site.
3. Click the Next button again to skip past the "server technology" page.
4. Choose "Where on your computer do you want to store your files" by clicking the folder icon and using the dialog box to pick a folder. Navigate to the previously-defined network drive and open the "web" folder. Click the Select button. Click the Next button to continue.
Figure 2: Select the network drive.
5. Pick None from the "How do you connect to your remote server" list, and click the Next button to continue.
Figure 3: Choosing "none" as the remote server.
6. Complete the site definition by accepting the default choice in the remaining step, and click the Done button to end.
7. Verify the site definition. The site files and folders should be listed in the Files window.
Figure 4: Site content in the Files window.
| Author: | Chris Dowling |
| Revised: | 2009-07-01 |
| Keywords: | Dreamweaver, network drive |