Site definition dialog box

I'm very new to Dreamweaver and am trying to bring in a website design that I did in photoshop. Trouble is, all the tutorials I see mention the Site Definition Wizard which is supposed to be accessible through the Site Definition Dialog Box. My understanding is that when it should come up when I go to Site, New SIte. Trouble is, I get a Site Setup dialog box instead and can't figure out how to get to the Wizard. Any advice?

Hi Julie,
That *is* the revamped Site Definition screen in CS5.
Site is for local settings
Servers is for your remote settings (FTP server, username, password etc)
http://help.adobe.com/en_US/dreamweaver/cs/using/WSee8adad8a8c1990b-6cb1a36e1266d204f20-80 00.html

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Date: Mon, 7 Jun 2010 09:19:07 -0600
From: [email protected]
To: [email protected]
Subject: Problems with site definition in CS5
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"ryanmhuc" <[email protected]> wrote in
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> Is there a way to add a new Category in the "Advanced"
section of the Site
> Definition?
>
> I have written an extension and would like to have
additional
> configuration
> options for th extension for each site definition. Is
there a way to have
> an
> extension store information along witht he site
information and display a
> UI in
> the site definition dialog so a user can configure the
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