Correctly defining site in Dreamweaver to accomodate Contribute

I am getting ready to set up a new Dreamweaver site to work
with Contribute and am hoping to avoid the problem I have with my
current site. Right now, the site definition points to an
"off-line" copy of the site on a local network drive. I make all
page changes, template changes, etc. within that site. When I'm
ready to make the changes live, I tend to use Windows Explorer and
just copy from the site to the live server (I know that I could
just check 'automatically upload files to server on save" and avoid
this step ). However, Contribute is set up to connect directly to
the live site. It seems that was the only way to do it - otherwise
even when I (as Contribute Adminstrator) click "publish" for a
draft, it would only be published to the off-line site - and I
would still have to copy to the live server. But with the current
set-up, there's a version mis-match as soon as I publish a
Contribute file, unless I immediately go and copy the updated page
from the live server back to the off-line site and that means that
some site changes will copy an old "off-line" version of a page
over a new, edited Contribute page.
How do I set up a site to ensure that I can still have an
off-line "work" environment, and yet not have to worry about
Contribute-edited pages? I do understand that I can define the site
as the "live" site - but then if I make site wide changes that
don't work, and blow something up - I don't have that back-up. It
just makes me nervous to work with the live files.
I've read (and am still reading) everything I can find about
setting up a site, and setting up a site to work with Contribute,
but this is still confusing me.
thanks for any help.

Have you ever used Dreamweaver?
How good are you with HTML and CSS code?
Go to Site > New Site and tell DW where on your hard drive you wish to keep your local site folder.
Enter your remote server FTP credentials.
From the Files Panel, Click on the Down Arrow to GET files from your remote web server.
Nancy O.

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Restoring defined sites

Hi,
I had a number of defined sites in Dreamweaver MX.
When I start DW MX, my defined sites would normally appear in the site panel/window. This morning they were not there - none of my sites exist any more!
Please can someone tell me how I can restore all of these sites without having to manually re-enter passwords, usernames etc?
I have a full back up using (Mac) Time Machine. I restored the DW MX application folder - this didn't work.
I trashed the Preference file, emptied trash and restarted - no luck.
Thanks in anticipation.

Thank you for your suggestion.
I can see where to get the site pref file on a mac if I was using DW CS3.
However I am using DW MX and the suggestion for older versions ie Macromedia > Common... does not give the same result on either my local drive or removable back up drive. There is only one file in "Common" > Personal Dictionary.tlx.
Below the "Common" folder is another called "Dreamweaver MX". Is it possible that the required file is in there under a different name? Perhaps in the "SiteCache" folder (clutching at straws here).

Import contribute site in dreamweaver

I want to import the site I currently manage in contribute in dreamweaver to see if it is an easier way to manager. How do I do this?

Have you ever used Dreamweaver?
How good are you with HTML and CSS code?
Go to Site > New Site and tell DW where on your hard drive you wish to keep your local site folder.
Enter your remote server FTP credentials.
From the Files Panel, Click on the Down Arrow to GET files from your remote web server.
Nancy O.

How to properly get folders, files into Dreamweaver Defined Site Folder from desktop

I, obviously am a new Dreamweaver user, and I need to know
the proper way of going about getting a folder, files, ect. from my
hard drive into my Dreamweaver defined site folder. I understand
how to insert an image from my hard drive into DW and it shows up
in my site folder in the Files Panel. More specifically, using
Lightbox2, after downloading Lightbox and placing those elements in
a new folder on my hard drive, what is the proper way to get that
folder into my site folder?
Also, how can I properly add images to an images folder in my
site folder in DW for possible later use, without inserting them on
the page. I know by inserting them on the page from a folder on my
hard drive, Dreamweaver prompts me for DW to recognize them. I
would like to know how I can get them in there and DW to recognize
them without actually inserting them on my page.
And can and how can I move files, images, pages from one site
to another? or should I? Thanks, if anyone can help me with these
file moving questions.

To restate courtney's explanation, *anything* that you paste
into the site's
local root folder will appear in DW's File panel, and will be
considered by
DW to be a part of the site.
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"courtney (n h c)" <[email protected]>
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> assuming you're on Windows, if you want to move files
from one place on
> your hard drive into your site folder, just use Windows
Explorer.
>
> but keep in mind that this would not be the ideal way to
move files within
> the site folder from one place another. for example, say
you have a page
> and you want to move it into a folder, you should do
that in Dreamweaver
> because it will update the links for you in any files
that link to the
> page you're moving.
>
> Rock Artist wrote:
>> I, obviously am a new Dreamweaver user, and I need
to know the proper way
>> of going about getting a folder, files, ect. from my
hard drive into my
>> Dreamweaver defined site folder. I understand how to
insert an image from
>> my hard drive into DW and it shows up in my site
folder in the Files
>> Panel. More specifically, using Lightbox2, after
downloading Lightbox and
>> placing those elements in a new folder on my hard
drive, what is the
>> proper way to get that folder into my site folder?
Also, how can I
>> properly add images to an images folder in my site
folder in DW for
>> possible later use, without inserting them on the
page. I know by
>> inserting them on the page from a folder on my hard
drive, Dreamweaver
>> prompts me for DW to recognize them. I would like to
know how I can get
>> them in there and DW to recognize them without
actually inserting them on
>> my page.
>>
>> And can and how can I move files, images, pages from
one site to
>> another? or should I? Thanks, if anyone can help me
with these file
>> moving questions.
>>

Dreamweaver keeps asking to define site!!

Hi,
I have DW CS4 i've just completed a site and set up a host via FTP all that connects fine.
When i connect i can see my remote folder on the left, on the right in my local folder i have my site folder with all files when i select main site folder and press blue arrow (put) dreamweaver says "before you can do this you must define site etc do you want to do this now?"
But the problem i'm having is i've already done this at the start...i tried re-defining site and still the same....strange or just me...???
Any help appreciated
Andy

This problem is on a mac yes the files are in the defined folder I tried it on a pc last night (win7) and it worked ??

Adding a local site to Dreamweaver CC that is through a mapped network drive breaks ALL connections

I am using Dreamweaver CC on Windows 8 on a machine that is hooked up to a local network. My site files are stored on another drive on that network and I am mapped to that drive. I have always been able to open in individual file from that drive in Dreamweaver. But I noticed that with one site I am working on, Dreamweaver would hang trying to make minor revisions to the PHP code. It was suggested to me to add the whole folder as a local site in Dreamweaver, so I did. At first I thought it was moving along much better -- no hanging while I was typing code. Then suddenly I realized I could not save the files. I was no longer connected to the drive I was working on. Even outside of Dreamweaver, I was unable to access the drive. I thought it was a network issue. I rebooted the computer and opened a Windows Explorer folder and was able to access the drive. Then I opened Dreamweaver again and the connection was lost.
To test my theory, I rebooted again, accessed the drive, waited a little while, accessed the drive, then opened Dreamweaver and it was lost. I tried this several times, each with the same result.
Then I went into Dreamweaver, removed the site from Dreamweaver and rebooted. I accessed the drive, opened Dreamweaver, and voila... I could still access the drive. So I tried adding the site back to Dreamweaver and I cannot access the drive after opening Dreamweaver again.
Without having the site in Dreamweaver, the files/Dreamweaver hangs EVERY TIME I TYPE CODE. Adding a site on a mapped local network drive BREAKS MY CONNECTION and disables my ability to work on the files. Is there a reason for this and more importantly, is there a fix? It seems like a very specific but illogical problem.
My next step is to find and install my old Homesite 4.5.
Thanks in advance for any useful advice!

mpendill wrote:
I surely did not knowing change anything within the software!
I just tried adding another site. It seems like it is setting it up and reading the files but then at the end (apparently just as the connection breaks), it gives me these errors:
Cannot create [SITE NAME].
and
The local root folder, [FOLDER NAME], does not exist. Please select a new local root folder by clicking the Manage Sites button.
(I changed the out the actual site name and folder name above.)
I believe these were the same errors I got with the other site. At the time I was pushing a deadline and was too frantic to write it down.
Not that I think it has any relevance, but both sites are Wordpress sites.
Maybe what I should try next is mapping a different drive and trying to set up a site from there?
For that error you want you can try mapping it but it seems your sites root is just not defined... what DW is telling you is it could not find the specified folder when its trying to establish the new site. You might want to make sure your folder is there and all the spelling is correct, when making sure go your your Site Manager and make sure your root site is in your network drive.

Dreamweaver MX and Contribute 4

Do I need to upgrade to Dreamweaver CS4 inorder to have it work correctly with Contribute4? My client has purchased Contribute 4 so he can edit his sites as needed but I am unable to administer the site in Dreamweaver (it's looking for vs. 2 though I downloaded the trial for vs.4). I have been unsuccessful in trying everything already located in forums, etc. and would appreciate any help or advice offered.

I believe the structure of contribute has changes with version 4, (more features, etc) and getting it to work with MX would be like trying to update MX to CS4 (you get the complete new version if you upgrade).
However many of the main features from contribute v2 are still valid in v4.
Upgrading is probably your only reliable option.
HTH
PZ

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Ok. So Photos1.htm is the main gallery page.
And it looks like you have sub-folders with images in them like these from 2011 and 2010
LLA Picnic 2011/
photos 2010/
Have you defined a site in DW yet? That's a critical first step in getting DW to recognize your site's links and other assets. See video below:
GS-01: Defining a new site | Learn Dreamweaver CS5 & CS5.5 | Adobe TV
Nancy O.

Can't create new sites in Dreamweaver CS3. Help!

I am trying to create a new site in Dreamweaver CS3 but keep
getting the following error:
"The action cannot be completed because the other program is
busy.
Choose 'Switch to' to activate the program and correct the
problem"
I have tried every documented solution on the adobe website
and other discussion forums and still cannot get past the problem.
I have restarted the IIS server on my local PC as documented
on the following adobe technote:
http://kb.adobe.com/selfservice/viewContent.do?externalId=tn_16485&sliceId=2
Other things I have done:
1. I have followed all the advice in the links at the bottom
of the above page.
2. I have created a new user, logged into that and tried
creating a site with a "virgin" environment
and I still have the problem.
3. I have gone into the registry and renamed the site
configuration info in case something was corrupted.
This removed all my site configurations. No help!
4. I have turned of my firewall and restarted the IIS
server.
5. I have searched the web for anything even remotely
similar to this error and tried every tip out there.
I called Adobe and they referred me back to the technote
above, which I had already tried.
One last bit of info. I can't create new sites, but I can
edit web pages in my existing sites. However, I cannot change the
configuration of the website in the Manage Sites area (i.e. I can't
push the Edit button).
Has anyone had this problem? Any help would be appreciated. I
have hit a brick wall on this one and am trying to meet a deadline
on a new website I need to create.
If I can't find a solution quick, I will be an
ex-Dreamweaver user. That saddens me because I really like
Dreamweaver, but I have to perform on my job.

And are you running Skype?
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>>I have rebooted many times. Actually, I am the only
user that ever logs
>>in.
>> This is happening on my laptop. I just created
another user to see if it
>> was a
>> corruption issue with sites tied to my regular
login.
>>
>>
>>
>

Problems previewing all my sites using Dreamweaver 8 both CF and html.

I have restored my hard drive (from a previous Ghost image)
and now encounter problems previewing all my sites using
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If I preview (using localhost:8500) I get the message "Unable
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localhost:8500." IE has similar message.
If I preview (using 127.0.0.1 instead of localhost:8500) I
get the page but no images or CSS loads.
An address such as:
http://127.0.0.1/CFIDE/gettingstarted/experience/index_content.cfm
loads just fine - seems CF is working okay.
All the sites used for testing locally have been used for
some time (years) and work on my unrestored drive.
My thoughts: after I restored my hard drive image I installed
both Norton Antivirus 2007 and resintalled ZoneAlarm. I uninstalled
both of the programs but the problem remains.
Any help is much appreciated. I have spent the last two days
trying to get this to work and as many of you can identify with...I
am supposed to be working....!

Hi,
JSF 1.1 doesn't coexist nicely with HTML components.
So if your goal is to build layouts in HTML then this
will not produce the result you want
Skins in 10.1.3 are slightly different than in 11
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to specify the class property to make skins work then
this indicates that the skin selectors you use are
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FrankHi Frank,
thank you for your help, I'm replacing every html component with adf one, panelGroup, panelHorizontal, panelBorder, objectImage etc... etc... but I have a problem...
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User Profile Lost - Any Way to Recover Defined Sites

I turned on my PC yesterday to discover that my windows XP
profile was corrupted and had to create a new one.
As a reult my user NTUSER.DAT file is now lost which holds
many of my PC settings.
Ive just booted up Dreamweaver and to my horror, all my
defined sites (about 40) have vanished !
I ve just realised theres an inport and export sites option
in the define sites menu which I presume is for saving this info.
If I hadnt previously exported and saved this info, Is there
any way to recover it from a previous PC archive - I.e where would
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Thanks
John

The site definitions are stored in the Windows Registry. If
you have never
exported them, then I don't know if you'll be able to find
them in the
Registry, but that's the first place I would look. Be
careful!
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>I turned on my PC yesterday to discover that my windows
XP profile was
> corrupted and had to create a new one.
> As a reult my user NTUSER.DAT file is now lost which
holds many of my PC
> settings.
>
> Ive just booted up Dreamweaver and to my horror, all my
defined sites
> (about
> 40) have vanished !
> I ve just realised theres an inport and export sites
option in the define
> sites menu which I presume is for saving this info.
> If I hadnt previously exported and saved this info, Is
there any way to
> recover it from a previous PC archive - I.e where would
such files be
> saved
> outsude of my NTUSER.DAT file.
>
> Thanks
>
> John
>

How do i link a flash file to a web site in dreamweaver 8

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Downloading and editing an existing WordPress site in Dreamweaver CS5.

Hello! New to the forums, here.
I'll try to be brief. I've got a WordPress site in-place at metalmeter.com that is hosted through HostGator. Basically, what I'm looking to do is get the site from the remote server and edit it in Dreamweaver CS5, previewing all changes on a local testing server before putting the updated contents back on the remote server.
Now, let me be clear: I've tried plenty of the tutorials. I've watched hours of videos. I still can't get it configured properly. I've got the FTP connection to the remote server running smoothly. I've got XAMPP installed. I'm having difficulties (and I apologize for being vague), and I just don't know where the problem is located. In my htdocs folder for XAMPP, I've got two subfolders 'metalmeter' for the remote server's downloaded contents, and 'wordpress' for the wordpress installation that every page seems to be pointing me toward. What confuses me is that when I try and open the uppermost index.php file on the remote server, the dynamically discovered content is not being displayed in the live view with my local testing server. I want to be viewing my existing WordPress site in its entirety exactly as I see it online while I'm editing it, and then pushing back updated files to the /public_html/ root directory of the remote server so that I can edit the site from my local client. I'm extremely new to Dreamweaver, so any help you could offer would be greatly appreciated.
If you know how to do exactly what I'm trying to do and have been successfully viewing and editing your existing WordPress site in Dreamweaver for upload, please take some time to explain the set-up. I'd be forever in your debt!

Nancy O. wrote:
I've been following this discussion for a while now and I don't understand why you hope to edit articles from DW. That's what the WP Admin panel is specifically designed for. Besides, you won't find your articles in any of the site files because they don't exist there.
I agree I don't see any reason to want to edit a Wordpress site in Dreamweaver. If you are using Wordpress then you may as well put Dreamweaver in the bin. Although people do actually want to edit and manipulate the design in Dreamweaver (including myself) and from what I've read its possible but I've never found a source which explains fully how to achieve this and those that I have it seems too much effort to even bother about.
I guess the Dreamweaver environment feels more like home and is more user friendly.
To put it another way, a typical WordPress installation contains around 800 files in some 80 folders. Those files don't contain any content, just a whole lot of PHP code. In fact, the only page most people ever see on your site is the index.php page which is dynamically created over & over by the server with content from the MySql and various include files.
For sure and that's why people who use Dreamweaver and feel the need to manipulate a Wordpress site in Dreamweaver because Wordpress is 'in vogue' get lost. Wordpress just containes a lot of pages with nothing to see apart from some php, many of who will not understand one jot.
Unless you're a coding guru, you should definitely NOT touch any of the core WP files as this could cripple your site. If you want to customize your Theme, look at the CSS and include files in your Themes folder. See Anatomy of a WordPress Theme:http://yoast.com/wordpress-theme-anatomy/
lol your not wrong there!
For a quick tip on Theming, open your remote site in Firefox equipped with the 'Web Developer Toolbar'. Edit CSS on screen. Save changes to your local site and upload it to the remote server. No testing server required.
Wordpress is Wordpress and Dreamweaver is Dreameaver. As far as I can make out the two don't mix.
Ideally you would just choose a Wordpress theme which most relates to the nice site you have designed in Fireworks of which you won't find any however goodthe themes are. Then manipulate the themes css that's if you can understand it. Even for a seasoned css expert its heavy going because everyone produces css differently to achieve the same results.
Leave Wordpress well anlone unles you're going to use it out of the box so to speak or as a web-developer don't mind a bit of reverse engineering.

Looking for a simple tutorial to building my first responsive web site in Dreamweaver CC.

I am looking for a simple tutorial to building my first responsive web site in Dreamweaver CC.
I have watched the tv.adobe video 3 times and I cam not able to do the actions the author shows.
help.
Ken Edwards

Responsive and simple don't go hand-in-hand. First do some prep-work to understand the concepts.
Responsive Web Design
http://coding.smashingmagazine.com/2011/01/12/guidelines-for-responsive-web-design/
Introduction to CSS Media Queries
http://www.adobe.com/devnet/dreamweaver/articles/introducing-media-queries.html
Jump start your RWD projects with any of the Responsive Frameworks below:
Foundation Zurb
http://foundation.zurb.com/templates.php
Skeleton Boilerplate
http://www.getskeleton.com/
Initializr (HTML5 Boilerplate, Responsive or Bootstrap)
http://www.initializr.com/
DMX Zone's Bootstrap FREE extension for DW
http://www.dmxzone.com/go/21759/dmxzone-bootstrap/
Project Seven's Page Packs (Commercial CSS Templates)
http://www.projectseven.com/products/templates/index.htm
Have fun!!
Nancy O.

How do I edit a WordPress site in Dreamweaver?

I found a pretty good article on how to install WordPress to a localhost and run a site made locally on a test server through Dreamweaver (http://www.adobe.com/devnet/dreamweaver/articles/dw_wordpress_pt1.html), but it leaves a lot unanswered. Like...
1. Okay, now I've built a WordPress site locally, how do I upload it to my webserver?
(When I upload it to my ftp, it's broken. I suspect that this is because the scripting is set to work on my localhost MySQL & phpMyAdmin and not my webserver's)
2. If I already have a WordPress site up on my webserver, can I download it to my localhost server so I can edit in Dreamweaver and my local machine, and then upload it later to my webserver?
Thank you everyone! Your help is highly appreciated!

i am only new at dreamweaver...however, i have spent quite some time with Wordpress and Joomla website building.
Plese note... In an effort to explain my thoughts (which if left in their original state...only make sense to me really) i use the term "articles" below very loosely as Wordpress is not just a blogg platform anymore.
The two platforms serve different purposes. Wordpress is a publishing platform...Dreamweaver is a design program. Dreamweaver on its own, would be a very slow and cumbersome way of publishing articles on a Wordpress site. Dreamweaver on its own, is oriented towards creating the entire Wordpress CMS itself...not the "dynamic content" that goes on the Wordpress Site (dynamic meaning published information that is regularly being added/edited/deleted) .
What you really should be asking is, "how can i edit/develop Wordpress themes in Dreamweaver?" Now that, Dreamweaver can do.
Just slightly off topic, have you thought about building your websites using Adobe Muse instead. Its much faster and a lot simpler to use than dreamweaver and a great drag and drop design interface! Almost no coding required. You wold not be using Wordpress of course, and the content isnt dynamic, but Muse is soooo easy to build sites with!
Could i make a suggestion that i myself have undertaken...Purchase a monthly Adobe Creative Cloud plan(to get access to a heap of Adobe CC programs) + $39US/month Lynda.com tutorial package.
Even if you just use the lynda training for a single month only (you only pay by the month as you go)...you will learn an enormous amount about the Dreamweaver, Muse, Wordpress...and a huge number of other programs.
Best money i have spent in Info Tech in a long time
kind regards
Adam

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