Using Dreamweaver CS4
Description:
How to use Adobe Dreamweaver CS4 to publish pages to official UTA web servers.
Available To:
- Departments and Offices at UT Arlington
- Faculty (currently appointed) and Staff
- Students Admitted to UT Arlington
System requirements: Windows
How to Use:
- The first step in using Dreamweaver is to setup a directory on your local computer. This can be accomplished through Manage Sites... found under Site in the menu bar.
- Select New and then Site.
- Enter a name for your Website. The name can be anything. For the "What is the HTTP Address (URL) of your site?" field, enter the full URL of your web site.
- a. If your site is located at students.uta.edu, put in \\students.uta.edu\<first 2 letters of your NeID>/<NetID>
- Click Next.
- Select "No, I do not want to use a server technology" and click Next.
- Choose where you are going to store you web pages as you work on them (local or on a network). If you do not have any web pages created for this site already, accept the default answer to "Where on your computer do you want to store your files?" Otherwise, enter in the path to the folder that contains your web pages. Click Next.
- On the next screen:
- a. "How do you connect to your remote server?"
- If you are editing a WWW site, click on the down arrow and choose WebDAV.
- If you are connecting to a WWEB site, click on the down arrow and choose WebDAV.
- If you are connecting to a student web site, click on the down arrow and choose FTP.
- If you are connecting to an omega web site, click on the down arrow and choose SFTP.
- "What is the URL of your server?"
- If your web site is located at http://www.uta.edu/<website_name>, enter https://dav.uta.edu/www.uta.edu/<website_name>
- If your web site is located at http://wweb.uta.edu/<website_name>, enter https://wweb.uta.edu/<website_name>
- If your web site is located at students.uta.edu, for the FTP address, enter in students.uta.edu.
- If your web site is located at omega.uta.edu, for the SFTP address, enter in omega.uta.edu.
- "What is your login?"
- enter your NetID
- If you are connecting to a WWEB site, you must use uta\<NetID>.
- If you are connecting to a FTP site, you must use uta\<NetID>.
- enter your NetID
- "What is your password?"
- Enter in yourpassword.
- a. "How do you connect to your remote server?"
- Click Next.
- Select Yes, enable check in and check out, select Dreamweaver should check it out, enter your name and email address. Click Next.
- Review the information to make sure everything is setup the way you want it to be. When you are done, click Done.
- Your website should now be listed under Manage Sites by the name you gave it. Click Done.
- Click the Check Out File(s) button on the right-hand side and to download your website (if one already exists on the server).
- You will be asked if you wish to check out (download) the entire site. Click OK to continue.
- You should now have a copy of your website on your local hard drive. Edit it, make changes, etc. When you are done you will want to commit those changes to the server by clicking on Check In (upload).
- You will be asked if you wish to include dependent files. Select No unless you have changed or edited your graphics. If that is the case, you would want to answer Yes in order to update your changed graphics in addition to the text.
- Your changes should then be uploaded and viewable through your viewing URL.