From the course: Dreamweaver CC Essential Training

Using the exercise files - Dreamweaver Tutorial

From the course: Dreamweaver CC Essential Training

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Using the exercise files

- [Instructor] Dreamweaver is site-based program so if you have access to the exercise files you'll need to know how they're organized and how I'll be using them. Download them from the course website and unzip them to a convenient location. I've got them here on my desktop so let's just take a look inside. The exercise files folder contains a complete set of files for the course organized by chapter. In Chapter 1, I show how to set up a new installation of Dreamweaver CC 2017. And Dreamweaver automatically creates a site based on all the files in the exercise files folder. And in Chapter 2, I explain how to define a site in Dreamweaver. And from that point on, I change the site definition so that it points to the folder for the files for that video rather than to the complete set. I show you how to do this once, but thereafter I change the site definition in between each recording, so you'll need to do the same yourself. If you're an old hand at Dreamweaver, this will be a familiar process. Just change the local site folder. Newcomers should pay particular attention to the second and third videos in Chapter 2. The files for each video are in the same state as at the beginning of the video. If I make any changes during the video, the end versions are in a folder called finished files and the finished files for each video contains a complete set of the files used in that video so that document relative links to images and other external files point to the same location as my files. Throughout the course, I use pages from a website from a fictitious hotel. But to demonstrate various techniques, I sometimes make changes to the underlying HTML or CSS before the beginning of the video. So if you want to follow along with me, make sure you're using the version of files for the correct video. In Chapters 7, 8, and 9, I do work with the same set of files for several consecutive videos, but that's the exception, rather than the rule.

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