Chapter 16. Moving Your Site to the Internet
Building Web pages on your computer is a big accomplishment, but it's not
the whole job. Your beautifully designed and informative Web site will simply
languish in obscurity on your hard drive unless you move it to a Web server.
Fortunately, once your Web site is ready for prime time, you can put it on a server
without ever leaving the comfort of Dreamweaver. The program includes simple
commands for transferring files back and forth between the Web server and your
desktop.
Depending on how you operate, choose one of these two methods for transferring
your files:
If you're the sole Web developer for a site, Dreamweaver's Get and Put commands
are the easiest way to go. If, on the other hand, there's a group of people working on your site, Dreamweaver's
Check Out and Check In tools let you move files at will without wiping out others'
hard work. In addition, this group feature integrates seamlessly with two other
industrial-strength Web-collaboration tools: Microsoft's Visual SourceSafe and
WebDAV, an open-source file management tool.
Either way, you begin by defining a remote site.
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