Publish a Website in Dreamweaver
This page contains information regarding how to start building your website and then publish it to the CS web server in the Macromedia Dreamweaver.
1.Select "Site | Manage Sites ..." from the menu, as indicated below.
2. Choose "FTP & RDS Server"
3. Input the information shown below and click the "OK" button. You need provide a name for your site, your own CS login account and password.
4. You will see something like below on the right side of your screen. The site name is "My Web" in the example, but yours could be different, depending on what you input on the previous screen.
5. To create the first page of your site, right click on "ftp://My Web", select "New File", and name it "index.html".
Notice: The name of the first (default)file of your website must be index.html, not index.htm or anything else.
6. Double click on the "index.html" file to open it for editing... and save it by choosing "File | Save" after you are done.
7. To see what your website looks like in a browser, launch a browser and type in the URL address of http://lab.cs.siu.edu/~your_CS_account_given.
The winidow below shows a website done by the user, testid01.
