Web Design with HTML and CSS

Defining sites in Dreamweaver or Expression Web

Lesson 3, Web Design Tools 49

4 In the Files panel, click to highlight the label of the images folder and click again to

make it active for editing. Then type smoothieimages and press Return (Mac) or Enter

(PC). The Update Files panel appears because the folder name has been updated, asking

if you’d like to update any links to fi les in this folder. If the links aren’t updated, they will

become broken because of the new folder name.

A list of fi les that will be updated appears in the window. Click Update to update the

links. Dreamweaver updates the hyperlinks to refl ect the new folder name.

Modifying a folder name in your Files panel prompts

Dreamweaver to update any linked fi les.

5 Choose Site > Manage Sites. The Manage Sites window appears. It provides access to any

sites you have defi ned. Use this window to create new sites or edit the settings of existing

sites. You won’t be making any changes, so click Cancel to close the window without

making any changes.

You can use the Export button to save your site settings as an XML fi le with the .ste extension.

These settings can be imported into Dreamweaver to easily move sites between machines, diff erent

versions of Dreamweaver, or share settings with other users.

6 In the Files panel, click the drop-down menu. In the menu list that appears, the directory
of your computer is displayed along with a list of your defi ned sites. You can use this to
switch from site to site if you manage several sites. This feature is very useful to designers
as it allows them to quickly access assets such as images or code that may be located in
another site.