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How to Define a home page for Dreamweaver site

When you establish web sites using Dreamweaver, you must define a home page as the front door for your Dreamweaver site. So your web site tree structure can grow from the file. This article will teach you how to do it.

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Solution

  1. Launch Dreamweaver and click Site - Manage Sites.
    define a home page for Dreamweaver site step 1
  2. The Manage Sites dialog box appears, select your site and click Edit.
    define a home page for Dreamweaver site step 2
  3. The Site Definition dialog box appears, click the Advanced tab and select Site Map Layout from the Category list.
    define a home page for Dreamweaver site step 3
  4. Click the browse button, select the home page file defined as the home page for your site and click Open.
    define a home page for Dreamweaver site step 4
  5. Click the Done button to exit the Manage Sites dialog box
    define a home page for Dreamweaver site step 5
  6. Now you've defined a home page for your Dreamweaver site.

Tips

If you use Adobe Dreamweaver CS4, you can't find the site map layout in the preference panel. So you just need to save your home page in your local root folder as index.html, index.htm or default.htm, depending on your system server's requirement.

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