Dreamweaver Idiot Needs Help

[sher07]

Dear friends:

Due to a major flaw with the FTP in GoLive 6, I've decided to switch to Dreamweaver MX. I spent the day reading The Dreamweaver MX Bible by Lowrey, an excellent book that gave me a wonderful overview of this great program. I already feel very much at home with its tools an operations EXCEPT for one little thing: How do add a file to your site?

The author of the Dreamweaver MX Bible explains very clearly how to create a site, etc but it remains a mystery to me as to how add files to the new site. I created a site, filled in the information, etc. OK, the name of the new site shows up clearly in the site panel. What I want to do is to add various files and folders (such images) from my LOCAL folders to the new site. Sounds simple but I don't see any specific instructions and I want to make sure I do it right. Could somone please spell it out for me?

And one other thing: How do I import any HTML file into my site? "Import" under File give optiosn for XML, Word HTML or tabular data. I just want to import a standard HTML or XHTML document. How do I do it?

Thank you so much.

Embarrassed but need help.

Benjamin

[Buzz]

Simply drag your files/folders into the site folder on your drive.

[sher07]

Dear Buzz:

Thanks so much. I was talking to Dreamweaver tech support this afternoon about their FTP and he suggested copying the files/folders from Explorer right beneath my site files and pasting them into my site. All sounds so simple now, but I was used to (in MSWord, WordPerfect, FrontPage, etc and most other editors) to "Insert" (file or folder) or "File, Import" (file or folder). Even more confusing was the fact that Dreamweaver's File, Import has options for XML file, MSWord document and Tabular Data but NOT for an ordinary HTML file or other files or folders. This really threw me off. So I'm glad to get this little detail right at last.

Benjamin

Simply drag your files/folders into the site folder on your drive.

[Buzz]

Yeah Dreamweaver has to handle Word imports of XML, tables nad data differntly due to MS inserting arbitrary things. But HTML is generally HTML. Note there is a command in Dreamweaver to clean up Word HTML after you've opened the file in Dreamweaver.

[sher07]

Dear Buzz:

Thanks so much for the suggestion about cleaning up MSWord HTML in Dreamweaver. I am very pleased with Dreamweaver in general. Let's close this thread.

Thanks again.

Benjamin