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when published on a Web server. If you do not yet know the Web address for your site or you do not plan to publish it on a Web server, you can leave


this box blank. Include the http:// at the beginning, and a / at the end. 10. Check the Use Case-Sensitive Link Checking box. Unless you know for sure that you dont have to worry about the case of your filenames, have Dreamweaver help you enforce the case sensitivity of your sites links. (See Chapter 3 for more on file naming.) 11. Check the Enable Cache option. Dreamweaver creates a local cache of your site to quickly reference the location of files in your site. The local cache speeds up many of the sitemanagement features of the program and takes only a few seconds to create. 12. Click OK to close the Site Definition dialog box. If you havent checked the Enable Cache option, a message box appears asking whether you want to create a cache for the site. Figure 2-2 shows what the Site Definition dialog box looks like when all the areas in the Local Info section are filled in. Setting up Web server access for FTP To make your life simpler, Dreamweaver incorporates FTP capability so that you can easily upload your pages to a Web server. This feature also enables Dreamweaver to help you keep track of changes you make to files on your hard drive and to ensure that they match the files on your Web server. You enter information about the Web server where your site will be published on the Remote Info page of the Site Definition dialog box. You access this page by selecting Remote Info in the Category box on the left side of the Site Definition dialog box. The Remote Info page opens on the right side of the box, as shown in Figure 2-3. Chapter 2: Setting Up a Web Site with Dreamweaver 37 You can find several options in the Remote Info section on the Access dropdown list. In the following section, you find instructions on how to set up FTP access, which is the second choice on the drop-down list. If you arent going to publish your site on a server, choose None from the drop-down list and go on to the next section. If youre going to send your site to a server located on your local network, choose Local/Network; then use the Browse button to specify that servers location on your network. The other options - WebDAV, RDS, and Microsoft Visual SourceSafe - are advanced options that you dont need to worry about if youre working on a site youll host on a commercial service provider. (You can find more about working with these advanced options in Chapters 13, 14, and 15.) The most common way to publish a Web site after you develop it is to use FTP to send the site to a remote server, such as those offered by commercial Internet service providers. If that is how youre going to publish your site, follow the upcoming steps, and youll be all set when youre ready to publish your Web site. If you dont have your server information, or youre anxious to start building your site on your own hard drive first, you can skip this part of the setup process and come back to it when youre ready to publish your site. Figure 2-3: The Site Definition dialog box specifies the access information for a remote Web server.