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Connect Dreamweaver to your website
May 11, 2012
intermediate
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Hey guys, this is Brad from Tech Guy Web
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Solutions. Um, I'm going to make a quick
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video showing you how to link your how
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to link Dreamweaver to your your live
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website. Um, you know, through a hosting
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provider, whatever hosting provider you
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use. Um, we're going to do this with an
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FTP account cuz Dreamweaver has a
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built-in FTP client that we can use to
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um, automatically upload files to our
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site. Um, and you could use your root
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hosting login um, you know, to your root
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C panel, but we're actually just going
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to create an FTP account um, real quick.
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So, just log into your C panel, um, you
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know, wherever your provider is, and
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just create a new FTP account. Uh, it's
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pretty self-explanatory. I do have a
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video on on how to create FTP accounts,
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but I'm sure you already know how to do
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that. So, uh, we're just going to say
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test
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user. And the domain I'm using is
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techgiststaging.com. I'm not going to
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use the root. I'm not going to use I'm
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going to use techgiststaging.com
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um slashmy site. So, we're using this as
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as the
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website.
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So, create a password.
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Um, we're going to take this test user
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off because we want it to go to the root
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directory and
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create. All right. So, now we have test
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user at
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techguysstaging.com. We have that FTP
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account created. So, let's go
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Dreamweaver.
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Um, oh, you need to have a a local
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folder on your on your um on your
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computer where you want the the files to
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be locally. So, I'm just going to create
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a new folder on um the desktop and I'm
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just going to call it my
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site and it's just an empty directory.
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Uh so, now we want to go into
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Dreamweaver and go to site, new site. Um
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we'll just call it my site. And here is
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where you want to specify the local
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folder that we just created. So, it's
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desktop my site.
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And now you want to go down to servers
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and you want to create a new
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server. I just name it my sites server.
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And you want to put the the FTP address
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which is your domain
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name and your username. Uh what do we
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do? Test user. And you want to put the
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username along with the domain
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name and the
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password. And you want to
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test. Okay. So, we're connected
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successfully. But right now, it's it's
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it's going to the root of techy staging.
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We don't want that. Uh we want to we
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want to put it in the the my site
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subdirectory. So right here you want to
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put public html or your your host might
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use something like www or ht docs. Um
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but public html is the most common. So
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and you want to do slash my site and you
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got to have that this folder on your web
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host. I'll actually show you right here.
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Um this I got FileZilla open in my
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public html. You'll see the folder is
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right here under my site. Uh it's a
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blank directory.
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So now you want to actually before you
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save go to advanced and click
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automatically upload files to server on
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save. That way when you save the file it
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will automatically go up to your web
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host your website. It won't you won't
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have to do it manually. And after you do
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that test
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again a problem.
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What? My sight. Maybe I need the
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backslash.
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Huh? Oh, you know
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what? Might not need
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that. All right. So, yeah, we didn't
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need we didn't need the public HTML, so
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it's just a subfolder. Um,
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save. Now, almost done. You just want to
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go to Oh, I I like to go to advanced
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settings and and turn off the cache.
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That way, you know, everything's in real
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time. There's no cash. Uh after you do
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that, just click save. And then you'll
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see over here it says my site. Um and
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this is this is your website right here.
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I mean, right now there's nothing in it.
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So, we'll just create a quick file
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uh new a new HTML
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file and we'll just we'll just
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um yeah, we'll just set up a
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quick
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Oh, you know what? I didn't save it as
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HTML. I want to save it as
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index, not
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HTML. All right.
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So, I'm just going to create a quick
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page right here. I'm not going to give
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you a HTML
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tutorial right
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now. Okay.
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So, we'll just
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All right, let me put a title in
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there. All right. So, we'll save that.
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And you'll see it's right over here
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under my site. Um, I'm going to bring
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the FileZilla over to see if it
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uploaded.
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Uh, refresh. And you'll see it right
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there. Now we'll go to the
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browser and
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reload. And what is going
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what? What is going on
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here? Oh, sorry. I have it in design
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view. I was wondering why it wasn't
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completing my tags or anything.
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All right,
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save. Reload. And there you go.
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techystagation.com/myite. So you can
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create
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uh any other, you know, your CSS
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folders. Just go to new
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folder, you know, CSS and then you want
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to create
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um an images
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directory, not in
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CSS, you know. So you get the hint. Uh
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yeah. So that's it's pretty easy. Um,
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and thanks for watching this tutorial.
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