Upload your site with Dreamweaver CS4

This entry is part 18 of 19 in the series Dreamweaver CS4 Tutorials

Now you are ready to use Dreamweaver CS4 to upload your site and make it live to the world.

You will need a web hosting server and a domain name.

I use Hostgator to host my websites.

When you sign up with a hosting company like Hostgator they will send you FTP details with which you can connect to the remote hosting server and upload your files.

To upload your files using Dreamweaver CS4:

Click on the ‘Expand to show local and remote sites’ icon in the ‘Files’ panel.
A new screen will open with your files on the left site. These are the files stored on your local computer.
Now click on the ‘Connects to remote host’ icon.
Select ‘FTP’ from the options
Enter your FTP details and click the ‘Test Connection’ button
You will get the message that Dreamweaver connected to your Web server successfully.
Click Next
Select ‘No, do not enable check in and check out’
Review your details on the final screen and click ‘Done’.
You will be taken back to the Expanded ‘Files’ Panel again.
Click the ‘Connects to Remote host icon’ again.
This time Dreamweaver will connect to the remote host and display any files that are on the remote host on the left.
To copy the files from your local computer to the remote host, simply select them in the right panel and click the ‘Put Files’ icon
Put all the files on the remote server (you don’t need to put the template file).
A copy of all the files will be seen on the right panel.
When complete check your domain name from your browser e.g www.sitename.com
Your site will be live to the world
Congratulations!

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13 Responses to “Upload your site with Dreamweaver CS4”

By Raaji Mohan on Oct 9, 2009 | Reply

Thanj for your grand tutorial about dreamwever. your providing excellent services to beginning stage web designer like me. thank you…………
By Colin Babb on Oct 31, 2009 | Reply

Very useful…thanks
By Phillipa on Feb 5, 2010 | Reply

Thank you for posting this, it helped me out a lot. Now that I have gone through this tutorial, I feel ready to start making my own website.
Thank you again!!
By Vijay Paul on Feb 12, 2010 | Reply

awesome tutorial. loved it. hats off to you…
By Joris on Mar 16, 2010 | Reply

Good explanations, thanks a lot!
By Wasalage on Mar 20, 2010 | Reply

Very usefull website……….!
Thaks for help us…..!
By satish on Mar 20, 2010 | Reply

Thanks a lot…a Nice complete Tutorial. very helpful. I’ll be designing a new site through this tutorial. hats off.!!
By Harvey Dosangh on Mar 24, 2010 | Reply

Brilliant, clear instruction and explanations. Now I will go and try it.
Many thanks
By Kyle Kruser on Apr 2, 2010 | Reply

Thank you so much,

I’ve been wanting to come to the 21st century, and thanks to you and this awesome tutorial I can finally be part of the internet.
By milad avanbod on Apr 10, 2010 | Reply

thank’s for learning
By uzair_kuin ( malaysia ) on Apr 29, 2010 | Reply

thanks for your tutorial. i suggest you put some nice dreamweaver CS4 template at your web site that are ready to download using Mediafire. I also hope you can put other Adobe product tutorial such as Adobe Photoshop CS4, Adobe In-Design CS4 and Adobe Flash CS4. thanks for everything.
By plink consult on May 3, 2010 | Reply

awesome job. this is an explicit work. kudos
By N.D.P.Perera on Jun 22, 2010 | Reply

Thank you for your tutorials regarding with flash and photoshop It was a great help for me to proceed in graphics

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