Publishing the Website

About Web Hosts

Websites are setup on web servers that can be accessed via other clients.

Most servers charge based upon four criteria:

• storage space - how many files, and how large you can store
• transfer bandwidth - limits the total amount of files you can transfer
• processing power & RAM - really only important if you are using web apps like Joomla, Wordpress, etc.

Advanced hosting techniques can be found with more criteria, but this is typical

You will share your web server computer with potentially 1000s of other websites, this is how they can charge you only $4 to $7 per month.

I find sites which offer service for less than $8 tend to not be worth the cost if you are serious about your site - as they tend put many thousands of sites on a server. I've heard of 40K on one server in one case.

I free host, which isn't too bad, is 000webhost. Fairly easy to set up, and they don't require a domain name.

Defining a Remote Site

To set up a remote host connection in Dreamweaver:

• Open the Site Definition
• Go to the Remote Info category
• Select access type - most common is FTP
• You will have to enter the FTP information
  • FTP Host (computer that you host on most likely - may be a name, or an IP address like 87.45.22.123)
  • Host Directory - check with hosting company, most common is none, or public_html
  • Login - you were given this when you created your account
  • Password - You probably set this up when you created your account

Always test to make sure your site works

Cloaking files/folders - allows you to keep local files which you may not want to upload, if your storeage space is limited. Things like PSD, and FLA files.

You can upload with the updown arrows in either the files panel , or the document tool bar .