Create a Dreamweaver Site Definition from Existing Files

In another video post, I showed how to create a Dreamweaver Site Definition from scratch. In this YouTube video I show you how to create a site definition when you have some files that exist already. For example, a client hands you a copy of their website on a CD or other form of digital media storage. (Yes it still happens.)

When you run into a situation where you have a bunch of files – you can use this method to create a site definition.

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Walter Wimberly

Assistant Professor

Walter Wimberly is an Assistant Professor at a regional college in Tennessee, teaching Computer Science in the Software Engineering track. He works as a student advisor, oversees curriculum changes, develops new courses, and manages the advisory panel.
Walter taught full time for about 7 years, before going back into “industry” as a full stack Software Developer for a dozen years. There he focused on web based projects coding in JavaScript/jQuery and utilizing the Bootstrap CSS Framework on the front-end, and coding in PHP, ASP/ASP.Net, SQL on the back-end.

Since he loves teaching, he taught as an adjunct web and digital media classes for eight (8) years, while working in industry, and has since returned to teaching full time.

He has been married for over 25 years, and is father to several special needs boys. As such, he is working on some projects to help others who have special needs to be self-sufficient, and support the care givers of those with special needs. Check out his Autism blog for more info.

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