Lesson Five: Defining your site (or telling your computer where you want to store your site files).

1 On the Insert bar at the top of your screen, go to Site>New Site, or Site>Edit Site, (if you have already defined a site and want to update your file details).

A small dialogue box will need you to click on New or Edit. A Site Definition box will appear and you can choose to negotiate either using the Basic version, or the Advanced, by clicking on one of the top tabs.

If we choose Advanced, select Local Site under Category.
2 Give your site it's name using alphabetical letters (and I use lower case letters), no spaces or weird characters like asterisks, hyphens, apostrophies etc., but you can use underscores eg. what_we_do.com.
3 Local Root Folder: Click on the file icon next to this box and navigate to the file you store your files in. Generally sites are stored on the C: drive because it is deep in the computer and not on the desktop. Select the file and choose and it will come up in the box.
4 Tick the 'Refresh local file list automatically' check box.
5 Default images folder: Click on the file icon next to this box and navigate to the file you store your image files in.
6 Tick the 'Enable Cache' tick box. Dreamweaver creates an index, called a cache, of your local site, which keeps track of the names and locations of all your files. The cache also tracks all the links between files in your local site. (If you want to use the Assets panel when designing with Dreamweaver, you must enable the cache).
7 Click OK and then 'Done' and your site cache will be created and you will be able to see all your site files in the files panel of your workspace.