Dynamic Web Tutorials and Notes

Set up site for testing

III Set up site for testing on local machine
Tell Dreamweaver where your folder is, what server technology you want to use, how you want to work with your files and what your URL is.

  1. Open Dreamweaver MX
  2. Click Site>New Site
  3. Click ‘Basic’ tab
  4. Name your site eg TestSite
  5. Click ‘Next’
  6. Click ‘Yes, I want to use a server technology’
  7. Select ‘ASP VB script’ from drop down
  8. Click ‘Next’
  9. Click ‘Edit and test locally’
  10. Click the folder icon and browse to C:\inetpub\wwwroot\testsite
  11. Click ‘Next’
  12. URL should read http://localhost/testsite
  13. Click ‘Test URL’
  14. Click ‘OK’
  15. Click ‘Next’
  16. Click ‘No’
  17. Click ‘Done'
  18. Your site has the following settings:
Valid CSS! . Valid XHTML 1.0 Strict . Level Triple-A conformance icon, W3C-WAI Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0 .