Date: Dec. 8, 2001
Link: http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/dreamweavernut/chapter/ch06.html
Source Author or Organization: Heather Williamson, Bruce Epstein, O'Reilly & Associates

Managing a Web Site is a chapter excerpted from the O'Reilly & Associates book Dreamweaver in a Nutshell, by Heather Williamson and Bruce Epstein. It explores the central metaphor of the Macromedia Dreamweaver interface, the Site window.

This tutorial explains defining a new site in Dreamweaver for FTP, local network, Microsoft Visual Sourcesafe database, or WebDAV remote access (or for no remote access). Managing site structure, documents and assets is covered for both the regular file directory-like view and the visual Site Map view. Site maintenance helpers are overviewed next, including powerful link repair/management and search (with available regular expressions) features, file updating and syncronization. Lastly the collaboration features are explained, including a Check In/Check Out interface that prevents remote team members from working on the same file at the same time and the flexible, XML-based Design Notes feature with uses ranging from simple "Post-it Note" organizational communication to version control and gathering information for Dreamweaver's XML-driven Site Report generator.