Dreamweaver 8 Design and Construction (OReilly Digital Studio)

Dreamweaver provides the tools for designing, developing, and testing your web site. You can do it all from your computer. You don't even need to have an Internet connectionDreamweaver stores the files for your site locally, on your personal machine, usually in a folder on your hard drive. This is fine for you, the author of the site. If you want to publish your site on the Web, you need some space on a host somewhere. Happily, web hosting is abundant and cheap. In fact, you might own some web space already.

This chapter guides you through the process of getting a web host and choosing an address for your site.