Building a website with Web Premium CS4 – Part 3: Creating a remote site

Welcome to Part 3 of the Building a website with Web Premium CS4 tutorial series. In many cases, the task of setting up a remote website can be delayed until just before the site goes live. However, some of the tools you'll use in this tutorial are online Adobe services that are only available when your site is running on a public web server. These services include:

• BrowserLab, a service that tests the rendering of your web pages in multiple web browsers and operating systems; and
• InContext Editing, a service that allows you to modify content of an online page using your web browser

In this tutorial, you learn to set up a production website by completing the following tasks:

• Choosing a service provider
• Gathering your site login information to connect via FTP
• Using Dreamweaver to configure the site
• Uploading and downloading site files

Requirements

In order to make the most of this article, you'll need the following software and files:

Dreamweaver CS4

• Try
• Buy

Prerequisite knowledge

Basic familiarity working with Dreamweaver is recommended. Prior experience connecting to a remote host and uploading files with an FTP client is also helpful.

Building a website with Adobe Creative Suite 4 Web Premium

For your reference, here are all the parts in this series:

Introduction
Part 1: Planning the website
Part 2: Creating a local site
Part 3: Creating a remote site
Part 4: Creating a visual design
Part 5: Slicing and exporting site assets with Fireworks
Part 6: Adding styles to finalize the page design
Part 7: Finalizing and reviewing the home page
Part 8: Creating a database
Part 9: Presenting dynamic data
Part 10: Adding Ajax functionality with Spry
Part 11: Creating an interactive web form
Part 12: Creating and presenting a Flash animation
Part 13: Adding video to the website
Part 14: Creating a blog with InContext Editing

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