Once you've defined your site location, Dreamweaver will ask you if you will be posting the contents to another machine. Unless your desktop also doubles as your Web server, you will need to choose "Yes, I want to use a remote server". Then you'll be asked to set up the connection to that remote server. Dreamweaver can connect to remote servers by FTP, local network, WebDAV, RDS, and Microsoft Visual SourceSafe. To connect by FTP, you need to know the following:
- Hostname or FTP address
- Folder on the server to store the files
- FTP login username
- FTP login password
- Whether you should use Secure FTP or not
Contact your hosting provider if you don't know what this information is for your host.
Be sure to test your connection to make sure Dreamweaver can connect to the remote host. Otherwise, you won't be able to put your pages live. Also, if you're putting up a site in a new folder, make sure that that folder exists on your Web host.
Dreamweaver offers check-in and check-out functionality. I don't use this unless I'm working on a project with a Web team.
