Macromedia Dreamweaver is a website authoring tool. It has everything you need to develop a professional website. Dreamweaver is a WYSIWYG (what-you-see-is-what-you-get) editor, meaning that you can create the Web page exactly as you want it to look on the screen, and the program adds the HTML source code necessary to make sure that the page looks right in a Web browser. It also offers FTP capabilities. This section of our documentation will take you through all of the necessary steps to FTP your site directly from Dreamweaver.

Setting up a Remote Folder

After you set up a local folder for a Dreamweaver site, you can set up a remote folder. This is the folder you will use to FTP your site.

NOTE: You don't need to specify a remote folder if the folder you specified as your local folder is the same folder you created for your site files on the system running your web server. This implies the web server is running on your local computer.

Determine how you will access the remote folder and note the connection information. This section describes how to set up a remote folder and connect to it.

Setting up a remote folder:

1. Select Site>Manage Sites. The Manage Sites dialog box will open.
2. Select an existing Dreamweaver site. If you have not defined any Dreamweaver sites, create a local folder before proceeding.
3. Click Edit. The Site Definition dialog box will open.
4. Click the Advanced button if the Advanced settings aren't showing.
5. Select Remote Info from the Category list on the left.
6. Select FTP the Access options. For more information, click the Help button in the dialog box.
7. Enter your FTP host. This is the domain name you registered for your site. For example, if you had registered justtesting.com, you would enter justtesting.com.
8. Enter the Host Directory. This is left blank.
9. Enter your Login information (yourdomain@yourdomain.com). For example, if you registered justtesting.com, you would enter yourusername@justtesting.com. This is username@yourdomain.com. The username is any user you have set up with FTP access.
10. Enter your password. This is the same as the password for your site manager.
11. Click OK. Dreamweaver will create a connection to the remote folder.

Connecting to a remote folder with FTP access:

1. In the Files panel, click the Connects to Remote Host button in the toolbar. If your site uses FTP with SSH to access your remote folder, a command prompt will ask you to log in to the SSH server when you try to connect to your remote server.
2. After you log in, click OK in the Dreamweaver dialog box.

NOTE: If you're using network access for your remote folder, you do not need to connect to the remote folder; you are always connected. Click the Refresh button to see your remote files.

Disconnecting from a remote folder:

1. In the Files panel, click the Disconnect button in the toolbar.