[stuartpurple]

I am constructing a small site in DreamWeaverMX (I couldn't figure GoLive and I had used DW before) and the chap who's going to be hosting it aslo wants to manage it. Fine by me, but he wants the site burned onto CD for him to upload from his Windoze box. I tried to tell him to let me ftp it, but he is adamant. He says that as he is doing the DHTML, he needs the entire site on his server with no outside intervention. He alao said that it would be compromised by his FireWall.
I think he is a prat for this, but I have been told by the client to do what he says /forums/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/crazy.gif.
How do I burn it to CD whilst preserving all of the links so that he can do with it what he wants? Can I simply drag and drop the site folder onto a disk image on the desktop and burn it from there, or do I have to export it some way?
Thanks in advance.
Stu.

[SavageRider]

I don't know Dreamweaver, but I know how GoLive maintains links, and it should be the same for DW. You tell a link a path to follow, which is, you tell it which folder to look in. As long as the folders maintain the same name and heirarchy, the link should be okay. Just burn the whole thing on to a CD.
And if I were the host, I'd want a hard copy backup also, just in case something happened to the server and all data were lost.

[stuartpurple]

Thanks for your quick response, I try to avoid Web sites like the plague, but ya gotta go where the money is.
It sounds like it should work, which is why I mentioned it in my orignal post. I simply wondered if there was anything else I needed to do. Hopefully not. /forums/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif.
Stu.

[Philbert]

He should be able to upload the site with no problem at all - as long as you give him everything. HTML is HTML. In fact, HTML files created in DW can even be edited in TextEdit.

[stuartpurple]

Cheers Phil,
HTML's a mystery to me. I know a little code, but editing it in a text editing app is something I'd rather not try (yet), I'd probably do worse code than Word.
Thanks for the info. /forums/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif
Stu

[Philbert]

I'm right there with you, Stu. I know just enough HTML to get in trouble. I was just trying to say that your client doesn't actually need Dreamweaver to maintain or edit the site. (As long as HE knows HTML, that is.) /forums/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif
Phil

[emcgill]

It will all work fine from Dreamweaver. Once you make a link, it will be a link whether you put it on a web server or onto a CD.
Just go to wherever your web files are stored on your hard drive through finder and open index.html (or whatever your main html file is) in a web broswer. This will let you surf your web site, through a internet browser, only from your hard drive instead of a web server.
If all the links work, then burn it. You can also test it after you burn it, from your CD, by opening the index.html file through finder into a web browser from your cd.
Hope you can see what I mean. Just open up index.html from any source, your hard drive or burned cd, click around, and you can tell if your links are going to work.
You might also want to run link checker by launching dreamweaver and going to Site/Check Links Sitewide. This will make sure that there are no broken links in your site - all before you burn your CD.
Hope this helps
Eric

[joel]

As a web professional, I would recommend Macromedia Contribute. It is a wonderful program that allows the client to easily update info without needing to know HTML. It is currently available only for windows, but Macromedia should be announcing the Mac version any time now.
Also, if any of you have work that you need done, let me know! Send me a private message, and I can email you some of my work.
-joel

[stuartpurple]

Thanks to all.
Very much appreciated. The client appears to be happy with the CD.
stu. /forums/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif