Section B.8. Site Menu | Dreamweaver 8[c] The Missing Manual

B.8. Site Menu

As its name suggests, the commands in this menu apply to your entire Web site, rather than to one document at a time. These commands can help keep your Web site organized and promote collaboration between large workgroups:

New Site . Opens the New Site window, where you can set up a site for working in Dreamweaver.
Manage Sites . Opens the Manage Sites Panel where you can create, delete, or edit site definitions. See Chapter 13.

Note: The next five menu commands let you transfer files between your computer (the local site) and a Web server (the remote site). These commands, in other words, don't work unless you've first defined a remote site in the Site Definition window. In addition, these operations work only on files that you've selected in the Site window.
Get . Copies files (those you've selected in the Site window) from the remote server to the local site folder for editing. Note that if the File Check In and Check Out feature's active, the downloaded files aren't editable.
Check Out . Copies files (those you've selected in the Site window) from the remote server to your local site and marks them on the remote server as checked out . No one else can make changes to the document until you upload it back onto the remote server.
Put . Uploads files (those you've selected in the Site window) from the local site to the remote site. The uploaded file replaces the previous version of the document.
Check In . Uploads checked-out files from the local site to the remote site and makes them available for others to edit. Once a file's checked in, the version on your local site becomes read-only (openable, but not editable).
Undo Check Out . Removes the checked-out status of selected files. The file isn't uploaded back to the remote server, so any changes you made to the file aren't transmitted to the Web server. Your local copy of the file becomes read-only.
Show Checked Out By . Lets you see who's checked out a particular file.
Locate in Site . When working on a document, selecting this option opens the Site window and highlights that document's file in the site's local folder.

Note: See Chapter 15 for the full scoop on remote sites, local sites, and checking files in and out.
Reports . Opens the Reports window and lists options for generating new reports (Chapter 14). Reports can monitor workflow (such as design notes and checkout status) and common HTML problems (such as Missing Alt text, empty tags, untitled documents, and redundant nested tags). You can generate a report on just the open document, on multiple documents, or on the entire site.
Synchronize Sitewide . Opens the Synchronization window, which lets you compare all your local files with all the files on your Web server. Use this to make sure all the most recent files you've updated locally are transferred to the Web server, or vice versa.
Check Links Sitewide . Analyzes the current site for broken links, external links, and orphaned pages. Dreamweaver then generates a report listing all the found problems. You can fix problematic links directly in the Report windowor click the file name to open the errant file in a new document window with the link highlighted and ready to repair.
Change Link Sitewide . In one step, replaces a broken link that appears multiple times throughout your site. In the Change Link dialog box, you first specify the incorrect link; below it, enter the link with which you'd like to replace it. Dreamweaver searches your site, replacing every instance of the old link.
Advanced . Provides access to advanced site options, such as FTP Log, which opens the FTP log a record of all FTP file transfer activity; "Recreate Site Cache," which forces Dreamweaver to rescan the site's files and update its cache file to reflect any changes to the files or links in the site; "Remove Connection Scripts" for removing the script files Dreamweaver creates to work with dynamic, database-driven Web sites; and "Deploy Supporting Files" to move necessary programming files to the Web server when using Dreamweaver's ASP.NET server model to build dynamic pages.