Chapter 16. Managing Your Site

As you've seen the in the rest of this book, building a site means creating dozens, hundreds, or even thousands of files that must work together in order to present a dynamic, exciting Web site. Keeping track of and managing all these files, a process called site management, may not be an exciting job, but it is essential.

The problem of site management gets even more complex when, as is extremely common these days, you are just one member of a team that is responsible for building and maintaining the Web site. Imagine, for example, that you have two or three people who could be responsible for making changes to page content. It would be easy for one person to overwrite the changes already made by a coworker on the same page. That's where Dreamweaver's collaboration features come in. With Check In/Check Out, members of the team are notified when another person is already working on a particular file on the site.

In this chapter, you will learn how to manage the files and folders that make up your site; work with Dreamweaver's collaborative tools; and learn different ways of looking at and working with your site.