Chapter 3. Creating a Local Site

IN THIS CHAPTER

Creating a Dreamweaver Site 30

Using the Files Panel 33

Summary 34

Sample Questions 35

Macromedia Dreamweaver enables you to develop and deploy your Web sites according to development best practices. As with any programming paradigm, it is recommended that you develop files in an environment separate from which a user can access. This enables developers to make changes to a site without any downtime and allows full testing prior to deploying new files.

Best practices suggest that you create your Web pages using the following three environments:

• A development server on which only Web site developers have access to the pages. These pages often are works in progress.

• A staging or test server on ...

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