Chapter 2. Setting Up a Local Site

What you probably want to do with this book is jump to the fun parts and start making Web pages. You can skip this chapter and make Web pages willy-nilly, but if you do, you'll miss out on some of the best time-saving tools that Dreamweaver includes.

This chapter describes how to set up Dreamweaver so that it helps you manage a set of pages as a local site. A local site is simply a folder on your computer that contains the collection of pages that are destined to be part of a site on the Internet.