Create / remove folders on Dreamweaver CS4

I currently have been given the task of updating an existing
website.
Over the years this website has grown a lot and there are now
a lot of files and folders some of them have not been used for
years. It has been managed by different persons and even services
and I just arrived in the company.
I am pretty new to Dreamweaver and I thought that I should
rearange the pictures into subfolders so that I could find them
easily (rather than using the asset tab). As I transfered the files
into my new subfolder on my root site, I chose to update the links.
After changing 2 pictures and uploading the 2 pages that I had
amended, the pictures I changed did not appear online (web
browser). I only obtained a red x and the alternative text. After a
few attemps, I decided to change it back to one folder and to
delete my sub-folder. The links were updated once more but now I
can not view any pictures at all even though the links seem to be
correct.
I can view the pictures on Dreamweaver but I can not see them
on my web browser.
How do I make it right again? How come, even with the links
updated, can I not view the pictures online?
Thanks a lot for your help.

When you move files around using the DW Files Panel, the
links in the code are updated but the images are only physically
moved locally. You then need to replicate the changes separately on
the server.
You have changed the links in the HTML page and uploaded the
page but the images on the server are not yet located where the new
links are pointing to on the server. Hence the red x.
e.g. "/oldfolder/pics/photo1.jpg" has been moved to
"/images/photo1.jpg" and the link updated in the HTML page.
However, on the server, "photo1.jpg" is still in the
"/oldfolder/pics" folder.
Re-upload your images from DW and all should link correctly
again.
Note that "/oldfolder/pics/photo1.jpg" still exists on the
server until you delete it in Remote View. No-one will see it
because no links are pointing to it.

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How can I create a photo album on Dreamweaver CS4?

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Hi Nancy, Thank you for your help.   Do you have any idea why the button that creates photo albums in my version of Dreamweaver CS4 is disabled?
Thank you, Date: Sat, 19 Jan 2013 12:29:48 -0700
From: [email protected]
To: [email protected]
Subject: How can I create a photo album on Dreamweaver CS4?
    Re: How can I create a photo album on Dreamweaver CS4?
    created by Nancy O. in Dreamweaver General - View the full discussion
DW is web authoring software. It's not a photo gallery creation tool. You can build your own own web gallery with HTML or PHP, CSS & JavaScript. http://alt-web.com/GALLERY/Gallery.php Or you can use commercial products to help you. Project Seven's Image Gallery Magic 2:http://www.projectseven.com/products/galleries/igm2/index.htm jAlbumhttp://jalbum.net/ Nancy O.
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Can you create HTML5 with Dreamweaver CS4?

Hello.
Can you create HTML5 with Dreamweaver CS4? Are there workarounds if not?
I am using a PC on Windows 7.
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Dreamweaver will not produce such a mess when using column names which comply with the MySQL Naming Conventions and don´t contain (often quite problematic) hyphen characters.
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I am anew user. Initially I created several folders for my photos but now know how to transfer photo folders using iTunes. However I am unable to delete/remove the now empty folders I created in iPad.

I am anew user.
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See if the following helps (found in Dreamweaver FAQ)
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I really appreciate any help you can provide.

I have used CS2 Adobe GoLive to create and manage a website (pro-prosperity.com). Now, I have CS4 Dreamweaver. I got a new site set up on Dreamweaver using the site management facility. I then have the contents of website available locally on Dreamweaver. I can edit files. But the main home page, index.html, is not displaying on design view mode for editing, although it displays everything on live view mode. I have struggled for days and am not getting any difference in attributes of index.html and another .html that is displaying fine on design view and is editable.
I am really lost and am begging for any help. Can you, for example, copy the home page from pro-prosperity.com and display on design view and edit it? Please tell me what is in this file that is troublesome. Thanks.
The first thing you should do is to make sure that this feature is turned on (it's off by default):
View > Code View Options > Highlight Invalid Html
It's not perfect, but it will notify you of some problems. In Code View, there are many problems highlighted. Some of them don't make sense, but are triggered because of a problem with a parent tag.
Be sure to make a backup copy of your file before doing the next step. Close your page. Go to Preferences > Code Rewriting, and turn on "Fix invalidly nested and unclosed tags", "Remove extra closing tags", and "Warn when fixing or removing tags". Click OK, then re-open your page. The messages in the dialog to tell you what was changed. This allowed me to see your page in Design View (I am using CS5).
Note: I suggested that you reset your preferences to turn off those 3 settings as they can cause problems with some markup.
In the long term, I suggest that you avoid nesting tables wherever possible.
Hope this helps,
Randy

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