Dreamweaver 8 SiteWise

Dreamweaver 8 is packed full of all kind of wonderful additions and terrific tools to make your design and coding experience a “piece of cake”. When we get into the series on CSS, starting in Article 4, I could go on for weeks, and probably will. When we get to the XML support in Dreamweaver 8, we’re talking more like a month!

But none of it would be any good without solid Site support. The site features in Dreamweaver 8 are exciting in their own rite; though they may lack the glamour of CSS or the code coolness of Code Collapse or XML. But without solid support in the site experience; without accurate FTP, without accessibility, none of the rest would mean anything.

This article is part of the new interactive e-book; Dreamweaver Crystal Gazer: The Power Of Dreamweaver 8

Overview

In this article, we are going to discuss the changes in Dreamweaver 8 at the Site level. One of the most frequently requested features, Background FTP, is at last a reality in Dreamweaver 8; we’ll show you how to use it and how not to lose it. Site Synchronization options have doubled in Dreamweaver 8. We’ll show you what all that is for and why you should care about it.

And, in the last part of the article, we’ll start our case study. In keeping the project integrated into the content, we’ll set up the site and get it ready for design and CSS, which begin in Article 4.

Stay with us.. the best is yet to come!

Nancy Gill

In early 1996, Nancy Gill picked up her first book on HTML and permanently said goodbye to the legal field. She has been busy ever since developing web sites for businesses, organizations and social groups in Central California and occasionally beyond. Nancy has served as a member of Team Macromedia since late 2001, first with UltraDev and then moving to Dreamweaver when the programs were consolidated in 2002. She also serves as Assistant Manager for the Central California Macromedia User's Group.
Nancy is the co-author of Dreamweaver MX: Instant Trouble-Shooter and technical editor for several Dreamweaver and Contribute related books, including the well-known Dreamweaver MX 2004: A Complete Reference. She also penned the first ever Contribute article for Macromedia's Own Devnet "Getting Up to Speed with Contribute in 10 Minutes".

Nancy has three children, two in college and one in high school. Offline, she enjoys various sporting activities, is a wild NFL football fan and sings in the church choir.

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