This chapter explains how to set up a Dreamweaver MX 2004 site. In Dreamweaver, a site generally consists of two parts: a collection of files on a local computer (the local site), and a location on a remote web server that you upload the files to when you're ready to make them publicly available (the remote site).
After you set up a site, you can explore Dreamweaver on your own, using your own existing web pages. Alternatively, you can follow the tutorials in the rest of this guide to learn how to create a simple website using sample content provided with Dreamweaver MX 2004.
The most common approach to creating a website using Dreamweaver is to create and edit pages on your local disk, and then upload copies of those pages to a remote web server to make them publicly available. You can use Dreamweaver in other ways (such as running a web server on your local computer, or uploading files to a staging server, or editing files without defining a site, or using a mounted disk as if it were your local disk), but the lessons in this guide assume that you're working locally and then uploading to a remote server.
This chapter contains the following sections: