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Laying the Groundwork in Dreamweaver CS3 Part I
application map can also serve as a workflow schematic that shows which pages are static HTML and could
be built by an HTML designer with little or no coding experience (typically, the entry and error pages); and
which pages are dynamic Web pages that require data-aware designers.
Defining a Site
Now that you??™ve decided on a design and mapped your site, you??™re ready to set it up in Dreamweaver. When
you define a site, you are telling Dreamweaver where to store your Web pages locally, where to transfer them
to remotely, as well as the style of code in which to write them. Defining a site is an essential first step.
The Site Definition dialog box provides two operational modes: Basic and Advanced. In Basic mode, also
known as the Site Definition Wizard, you specify the bare essentials for editing, testing, and sharing your
site files. In Advanced mode, you can specify all your site parameters, from the most basic down to the
most obscure.
Using the Site Definition Wizard
There are two main paths through the Site Definition Wizard:
n One for sites that do not use a server technology??”sites that contain no server-side code, just
client-side HTML, JavaScript, and so on
n One for sites that use a server technology??”sites that contain server-side code, such as
ColdFusion, ASP, JSP, and so on
To keep things simple, I??™ve written a separate procedure for each of these paths, which I provide in the following
sections.
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