About site files and folders

In GoLive, a site is a collection of files on a local drive or Web Workgroup server that are used as resources for developing and maintaining a Web site on a Web server. Viewers of the Web site only see files that you upload to the Web server. (See Uploading and updating a site or the Adobe Web Workgroup Server User Guide.) These files include the home page (usually named index.html), pages linked directly or indirectly to the home page, and media files referenced by any of these pages.

Viewers don't see the rest of the files that are usually placed in the data and settings folders, and normally the contents of these folders are not uploaded to the server.

The files comprising a GoLive site include the site project file and the contents of three folders: the root folder, the site data folder, and the site settings folder.

• The contents of the site project file is displayed in the various tabs of the site window.
• The contents of the root folder are listed in the Files tab of the site window.
• The contents of the site data folder are listed in the Extras tab of the site window.
• The site settings folder contains XML files of site-specific settings, and settings for the Colors tab, External tab, and Font Sets tab.