Nvu User Guide
8 - Site Manager
Nvu User Guide
8 - Site Manager
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8 Site Manager
The site manager allows you to
navigate your site or between sites
easily.
To toggle the Site Manager on
or off either press F9 or use View
>
Show/Hide > Site Manager.
Site Manager can deal with
sites irrespective of whether they reside on
a local machine or on a remote server. In the latter case, if you are
on a dial-up network, Site Manager will dial and make the connection
for you. Since generally you will set up a site on a local machine and
later
'publish' to a remote sever we will deal first with setting up on
a local machine.
Site Manager provides a
directory tree view of a site similar to the
view with Windows Explorer. It however lists only directories which you
have specifically set up as ‘Sites’. You can set up
many
sites, they appear in Site Manager irrespective of where they appear in
a normal directory tree.
To set up a new site (assuming
that pages for the site have already
been created) open Site Manager, click ‘Edit
Sites’. This
opens the ‘Publish Settings’ window.
Choose a convenient name for
the site (You may like to call it
something like “My Site Local” to differentiate it
from a
later “My Site Remote”) and enter it in the box
‘Site
Name’.
In the ‘Publishing
server’ area click ‘Select
directory’ and browse to the folder where the site is
located,
select the folder and OK. The box should read something like
“file:///C:/Documents
.... “ (Ignore the
hint line which
applies to remote sites only.)
Leave the other boxes (Web site
information, User name etc.) blank.
Back in Site Manager in the
column headed ‘Name’ the new
site should be listed and can be expanded to show its contents.
The main window lists all
sites which have been set up and, for any
sites which have been expanded, the files contained in it. (See figure.)
Double-click any site to expand it.
At the top of the Site Manager
window a drop down box allows you to
view all files or to select to view only html files (which includes htm
files) or only image files (these include gif, jpg, jpeg and png files).
For files it is possible to
display the file size and modified date. To
select or de-select these options, in the column heading click the
right-most division and select the options required (see figure). (You
may have to widen the site manager window to make this possible.)
It is not possible to change the order of the listing.
Double
click
on any html file
to load it directly to the page area for
editing.
By using the buttons at the top
of the Site Manager window, and selecting a file if required, it is
possible to rename and delete files and to create folders.
Note
all
these actions alter the actual files concerned. By using the
‘Edit Sites’ function and the ‘Publish
Settings’ window, sites may be removed from the Site Manager
but
this has no effect on the actual folders or files involved only
on the view in Site Manager.
Remote sites – on the
server hosting a site – may be set up in almost exactly the
same way as local sites (see Section
8.2). This
permits the same
browsing, display and editing functions as for a local site.
This time all the boxes on the
‘Publish
Settings’ window must be completed. Hints
are provided for the content of each. The HTTP address will be used by
the Site Manager to find the site.
Warning Remember that any firewall in place must allow Nvu to access to the site. Unfortunately Nvu provides little help in resolving any problems which arise while setting up sites.
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Nvu User Guide - Based on Nvu version 1.0 - Updated 15-July-2005