Dreamweaver CS6: The Missing Manual

Site Menu

As its name suggests, the commands in this menu apply to your entire website rather than single documents. These commands help keep your site organized, and promote collaboration between large workgroups:

• New Site. Opens the New Site window, where you can set up a site to start working in Dreamweaver.

• New Business Catalyst Site. This command lets you set up a site to work with Adobe’s Business Catalyst service. Business Catalyst is Adobe’s web hosting company for businesses; it lets you build websites that incorporate e-commerce, blogs, a customer management system, email newsletters, and so on.

• Manage Sites. Opens the Manage Sites panel where you can create, delete, or edit site definitions. See Chapter 15.

  Note

  The next five menu commands let you transfer files between your computer (the local site) and a web server (the remote site). These commands, in other words, don’t work unless you first define a local and remote site in the Site Definition window. In addition, you have to download the files you want to work on by selecting them in the Site window (see below).

• Get. Copies files (those you select in the Site window) from the remote server to your local site folder so you can edit them. Note that if you have Dreamweaver’s file Check In and Check Out feature active (see Check In and Check Out below), you can’t edit the downloaded files if someone downloaded a copy before you did.

• Check Out. Copies files (those you select in the Site window) from the remote server to your ...