defining a site purely for the site management features. FTP: The most common option FTP allows you to configure connection and login properties to a remote computer. After the connection and login properties have been established, you can use Dreamweaver's built-in FTP client to transfer files between your local computer and the remote computer. Local/Network: You'd use this option for two reasons: First, assuming that your web server is accessible from the network, you'd want to choose this option to configure the path to the web server instance on the network. Second, if your organization's intranet can feed off a folder that resides on the network, this is a viable option. WebDAV: Short for Web-based Distributed Authoring and Versioning, WebDAV allows teams to collaboratively edit and manage files on remote web servers. WebDAV includes numerous versioning and control features such as file lockingwhich prevents authors from overwriting each other's changes, remote file management, versioning, and so on. RDS: If you've configured ColdFusion as your server technology of choice, you can use the RDS option to connect to the ColdFusion application server. This is discussed later in the book. SourceSafe Database: Microsoft's Visual SourceSafe is a versatile source control and version program that relies on a self-contained database for the management of files within teams. Select this option and configure the settings when working with SourceSafe instances. This feature is discussed in much more detail in Chapter 12,"Building Dreamweaver Websites within Teams." Although we could get away with choosing None for most of our examples, it would defeat the purpose of learning about one of the more important features built into Dreamweaver: the FTP client. For this reason, I'll choose FTP. However, unless you've purchased web space from a third-party web hosting company, you may want to choose None and re-reference the FTP sections of this chapter when you can follow along with your own settings. After selecting the FTP option from the Remote Server menu, the screen tailors itself to allow you to configure path and connection details for your remote computer (see Figure 4.8). Figure 4.8. The FTP option allows you to set a remote path and connection information. [View full size image]   The screen exposes the following options: Hostname: Enter the physical path of the remote computer here. Hostname Folder: If you're working in a specific folder on the remote computer, enter that here. FTP Login: Enter your login name here. FTP Password: Enter your password here. Save: If you don't want to type your password every time you want to transfer files to the remote computer, choose this check box. Use Secure FTP: Secure FTP or SFTP, is the newest standard for transferring files between local and remote computers securely. Although normal FTP transfers your data in an unencrypted format, SFTP encrypts data using DES, TripleDES, Blowfish, and RSA encryption algorithms. But don't think you can just select this option to begin using SFTP; SFTP relies on third-party software running on the web server to facilitate the secure interaction between the local and remotes computers. For more information on SFTP, consult Appendix C, "General Resources." Test Connection: After you've configured the options on this screen, click this button to test the connection. If everything goes well, you should receive a dialog stating that the connection to the web server succeeded. If the