Dreamweaver Setup

The following are simple settings for managing your own website with Dreamweaver.

In your welcome letter for domain name and website hosting, you will receive the following information:

| Domain: your-domain-name.com
| Ip: 12.345.678.90
| UserName: unique-username
| PassWord: CaSe-SenSiTive-PassWord

Based on the above information, we can go ahead and set up a ‘New Site’ profile in Dreamweaver.

Please note: the following screenshots are based on Dreamweaver8 (Newer versions will look similar)

Step 1: Create a New Site

From the navigation menu, select ‘Site’ and ‘New Site’

Dreamweaver settings for new website

In the website definition, enter the following information:

  1. Click Advanced
  2. Enter your website name
  3. Select a folder on your computer where all website files will be located
  4. Select a default image folder where all images for the website will be located. Keep the images in the same folder as your local root folder, do not select ‘My Photos’ or a folder outside the local root folder.

Dreamweaver Website Definition for new websites

Step 2: Set up connection to web hosting server

In this step, we will enter information about your website hosting details.

This will allow you to connect remotely to your server online.

  1. Click ‘Remote Info’
  2. Select ‘FTP’ form the Access method

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Step 3: Enter Remote/Web Hosting Details

From your welcome letter, enter the following

  1. FTP Host: Your IP address or domain name (IP address preferred)
  2. Host Directory: public_html  (this is the folder where all files will be visible online!)
  3. Login information
  4. Case Sensitive Password

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Step 4: Test

If all information is correct, click on ‘Test’ to get the following message

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Should you have additional questions, contact us for web hosting support.

 

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