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5. Click to again select the site folder at the top of the Files panel. Control/
right-click the site folder and choose New Folder from the contextual menu.

If you don’t select the site folder first, the new folder would be created inside of the
resources folder that you just created. You want another folder at the same level as the
resources folder — in the main level of the site root folder — so you first have to select
the site folder as the target location for the second new folder.
Note:
6. Type images and press Return/Enter to apply the new folder name. You can create a new
Web design convention dictates image files be placed in a folder named “images” for folder inside an existing
easier organization. If you have many photos in various categories, you might want to folder (called nesting) by
create additional nested folders inside the main images folder. Control/right-clicking the
existing folder — instead
7. Repeat Steps 5–6 to create another new folder named menus in the site root of the root folder — and
folder.
choosing New Folder
8. Refresh the list in the Files panel. from the contextual
menu.

9. Continue to the next exercise.

The Files Panel in Depth Directory menu View menu
By default, the Files panel displays the files on
DREAMWEAVER FOUNDATIONS appropriate option from the View menu. Remote Host remote server to the local folder and locks the files so
your local computer. You can also view the files
Expand to Show Local
on the remote or testing servers by choosing the
Connect to
and Remote Sites
Synchronize
Refresh
The top of the Files panel also includes buttons that
Check In Files
Get Files
allow you to manage the files in your site:
Put Files
Check Out Files
• Connect to Remote Host establishes a connection
with the remote server (if you defined one). Otherwise,
• Check Out Files copies the selected files from the
clicking this button opens the Site Definition dialog box.
only the user who checked out those files can edit them.
• Refresh refreshes the file list that displays in the panel.
• Get Files copies the selected files from a remote server
folder to the remote server and makes the copied files
to the local folder. If the Enable File Check In and Check
read-only in the local folder. To edit these files, you need
Out option is active, the copied files are available on • Check In Files copies the selected files from the local
the local site in read-only mode, which means you can’t to select them and click the Check Out Files button.
modify them. You must click the Check Out Files button • Synchronize synchronizes the files between the local
to edit the files. folder and the remote server so the same version of the
• Put Files copies the selected files from the local folder files appears in both places.
to the remote server. If a new file is added to the server, • Expand shows both local files and the remote site
and if the Enable File Check In and Check Out option is (if one has been defined). The expanded Files panel has
active, the file’s status is Checked Out. two panes; one displays the files on the remote or test
server and one displays the local site files.

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