up Web server access for FTP" section, earlier in this chapter. 4. Connect to the remote site by clicking the Connects to Remote Host button, which looks like the ends of two cables, in the Files panel. 5. Click the Get Files button, which looks like a down arrow, to download the entire site to your local drive. Sometimes your Web host has files on the remote server that you dont need to download. If you want to download only specific files or folders from the site, select those files or folders in the Remote Site pane of the Files panel, and click the Get Files button. Dreamweaver automatically duplicates some or all the remote sites structure, meaning the folders in the site but not all the files within them, and places the downloaded files in the correct part of the site hierarchy. Re-creating the folder structure on your local computer is important because Dreamweaver needs to know the location of the files as they relate to other parts of the site in order to set links properly. The safest option is to download the entire site; but if you are working on a really large Web project, downloading a part and duplicating the structure enables you to work on a section of the site without downloading all of it. If you are working on only one page or section of a site, you should generally choose to include dependent files, meaning any files linked from those pages, to ensure that links set properly when you make changes. 6. After you download the site or specific files or folders, you can edit them as you do any other file in Dreamweaver. Creating New Pages Every Web site begins with a single page. Visitors are first greeted by the front page - or home page - of your site, and thats usually a good place to start building. Dreamweaver makes building a home page easy: When the program opens, you see a Start Screen with shortcuts to many handy features for creating new pages. If you want to create a simple, blank Web page, choose HTML from the Create New list in the middle row (see Figure 2-4). If you are creating a dynamic site, you may choose ColdFusion, PHP, or one of the ASP options. (If you dont even know what those options mean, you probably wont need to use them, but you can find some information about these advanced options in Chapters 13, 14, and 15.) Get in the habit of saving new Web pages into your main Web site folder as soon as you create them, even though they are still blank. As you create links or add images to your pages, Dreamweaver needs to be able to identify the location of your page, and it cant do that until you save the page. Figure 2-4: