The basic site-management process is
Your local file system serves as the "staging area" where you develop and test the site. Once you're satisfied with the changes you've made, you can make the site available to others on the Web or on an intranet within your own company or department. Managing a site with Site Manager means that you can easily perform general housekeeping chores on the files that make up the site. For example, you can add, delete, and edit files in the site, check the integrity of links and fix those that are broken, and then transfer (deploy) the site to a location where users can access its information. Note: Newly created sites are automatically under management.
The Site Manager wizard takes you step-by-step through the process of creating the type of site that's appropriate for your needs. The wizard is a software module that solicits answers from you. In response to those answers, it creates one or more Web pages, images, and/or other document types, and places them in the location you specify. Once the pages have been created, you can customize, add, delete, and modify them. Thus, a wizard provides a useful and sophisticated starting point for further Web site development. Use the Next and Back buttons to move through the wizard dialog boxes. When you are satisfied with the selections you have made in each dialog box, click Next to continue. Use the Back button to retrace your steps. Click Cancel to end the session. If you end the session before Site Manager has created the new site, the selections you have made, and any information you have entered, are discarded. When you have completed all the steps to create a site, click Finish to create the site based on the information you've provided.
A dialog box appears containing three options that usually include a
single-page template with no links, a multiple-page template containing
some links, and a more advanced template with many pages and links. The
types of pages and links depend on the template category you selected.
A dialog box appears asking you to define the site information
The files in the new site are displayed in the Site Manager file list. Red triangles in the lower-left corner of the site's directory and file icons indicate that the site is managed. Note: You can use the Site drop-down list to switch between sites you've created.
Note: This process might take a while depending on the size of the site you're downloading and the type of network you're on. Specifying the actual root directory and ending the URL with a slash `/' might speed up the operation.
NewSite.site
file and a .site
directory for every subdirectory) to keep track of files and links. For example, the following steps place the LiveWire samples
directory under management.samples
directory. For example, if you installed LiveWire in c:/server/livewire
, the path is /c:/server/livewire/samples
.
Note: Site Manager follows the Unix convention of displaying pathnames with slashes.
Important: Site Manager creates
.smg
files in the .site
directories--one .smg
file for every HTML file--that it uses to track links. If you accidentally delete a .smg
file, you'll need to remove the site from management, and then remanage it by choosing Site|Manage for Site Manager to work properly again.
Note: Directories you create are automatically under management if the parent directory is under management.
Note:
Under Windows NT, you must delete any subdirectories and files in the
directory first.
Tip: Double-clicking an HTML file is the same as choosing File|Edit if you've specified to start an editor by default. If you double-click an HTML file that's not part of a managed site, the browser will start instead.
Tip: Double-clicking a file is the same as choosing File|Browse if you've specified to start a browser by default.
Note: If you add a file or directory to a managed site using the Windows File Manager (or any utility outside Site Manager), you need to first choose Site|Check Internal Links to update the file list, and then select it within Site Manager, and choose Site|Manage.
The top list displays all the site links selected for view. You can sort the list by clicking the header bar. The list is sorted by the column header that you select.
You can display invalid internal links, external links, or both. Use the drop-down list to the right of the External Links checkbox to select the type of external links you want to view.
The bottom list displays pages that contain the link selected in the top list. The first column names the page in which the link is used, and the second column indicates the number of times that the link is used. Note: Site Manager does not track dynamic links that JavaScript creates.
The top list displays links that lead out of the selected page in the file list. You can sort the list by clicking on the header bar. The list is sorted by the column header that you select. The bottom list displays page links that point to the selected page in the file list.
Site Manager checks for changes to site files and updates the site database.
index.html
) in a site, which often has links to all other pages but none that point back to it.
The filenames and paths of the unused pages in the site are displayed.
http://caliban.mcom.com/testsite
ftp://server1/testsite
Note: If the server you're deploying to uses access control, you'll need to provide a password for the copy operation to begin.
A compile progress box appears. The source files are compiled into a .web file (LiveWire application) and can be installed with Application Manager.
Note: If you don't specify a Web filename, the default is NewSite.web.