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.