Well it’s happened to me plenty of times.

It’s not something that happens all the time but when it does happen it cna be extremely frustrating so I thought I share with you how to work around it. Here’s a short video on how to fix the problem:

Hopefully this little tip will come in handy next time your font’s or style won’t change.

Not many! Imagine having spent weeks or even months working on your website, your hard drive crashes and you have to start all over from scratch, Or do you…

Well if you’ve been uploading your files to your web server regularly then your in luck. Chances are you’ll be able to recover your whole website and avoid having to start all over from scratch.

I created a short video here for you to show just how to do that:

This short dreamweaver tutorial will show you how you can save weeks of work by simply ‘downloading’ your existing website from your webserver.

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You can watch the example dreamweaver tutorial that I mention in the video by visiting the homepage at http://www.dreamweavermadesimple.com, scrolling down the page and clicking on the “Sample Video” image

Also, if you’re after detailed dreamweaver tutorials showing you how to do a whole range of different tasks using dreamweaver you may want to check out our advanced dreamweaver tutorials at http://www.dreamweavermadesimpleadvanced.com.

I hope that answers your question for you Sam.

Mark.

Dreamweaver comes to the rescue. If you have an especially large site you can also benefit from this function. The best way to initial sync is to do so when you first start building your web site. When you are configuring your site definition you have a box to check under the “Remote Info” section. This will maintain your synchronization.

The sync feature uses the standard Get/Put functions that are in all of Dreamweaver. It will check to see which files are newest, those on your server, or those on your hard drive. If you are the sole proprietor of your web site, and there are no other individuals working on your web pages, you should avoid the “Check In/Check Out” function. There is a chance that the software will download an old file by mistake and overwrite your new pages.

“Check In/Check Out” is a function reserved for when a number of people work on the same site. This is a service that ensures everyone in the group has the most recent files from the web site. If your coworker uploads three changed web pages, when you use this function, Dreamweaver will download those new pages into your computer’s site.

To synchronize your site at this moment, right click anywhere in your “Files” panel. This should be to your right on the screen. You will then select “Synchronize.”

A menu box will appear for you to work with. You can either publish your entire site or just the sites you specify. Next, you will need to chose where you want to copy the newest files.

Selecting “Put New Files to Remove” tells the software to put the newest files on your computer onto the server.

Selecting “Get Newer Files from Remote” does the opposite. It looks for newer files on your server that will be downloaded onto your computer.

There is also a function called “Get and Put Newer Files” that will do both.

Your next step will be the “preview” area where you can see what files will be affected. If you have any doubts about deleting files you should act now. Once Dreamweaver overwrites or deletes web pages or graphics, you will likely not be able to reverse it.

When you are through you can click “OK” or “Cancel” to approve or stop the action. Once it has completed you are done.

Now, that doesn’t mean that your website has to be limited to just one of these 4. in fact many websites contain aspects of 2,3 or all 4 of these types.

Here’s a short video I put together for you to better understand these 4 different website types, what they are, why you’d want to use them and when to use them.

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]]> http://dreamweavermadesimple.com/blog/dreamweaver-tips/4-different-types-of-websites/feed 2 http://dreamweavermadesimple.com/blog/dreamweaver-tips/dreamweaver-tutorial-how-to-organize-your-website-files http://dreamweavermadesimple.com/blog/dreamweaver-tips/dreamweaver-tutorial-how-to-organize-your-website-files#comments Thu, 15 May 2008 14:39:20 +0000 Admin http://dreamweavermadesimple.com/blog/?p=12 Having your website files well organized can mean the difference between a smooth running, functional website and utter Chaos!

Here are some simple tips on keeping your website files well organised (and a little trick that will make it easier to do!)

Well, here’s a fast simple solution to adding site search to your website in a matter of minutes – without having to be a computer guru!

Watch the video below:

Here’s what Greg Asked:

“Can you tell me how it is that when I click on the
-> “View” menu then
-> “Page Source”
only about 1/2 of the websites have their keywords for everyone to see, and the others seem to hide their keywords?”

How can I hide my keywords?

I’m assuming Greg’s referring to the Keyword meta tags here.

Well actually those keywords aren’t REALLY the keywords that the search engines are using when they are ranking your website.

Search engines like google and yahoo etc, actually focus a lot more on the actual keywords that are contained in the content of your pages, in other words the actual content that you visitors are reading rather than the meta tag keywords when ranking your site for keywords.

So basically you can “hide” your keywords by simply leaving them out of the meta tags and making sure you have them as part of the content of the page.