MenuMachine - Creating a new site in GoLive CS (MM1, MM2)

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Creating a new site in GoLive CS (MM1, MM2)

Article Applies To:

MenuMachine 1 & 2

GoLive CS only

Mac, Windows

Article ID: 000125

Category: General Issues

Issue

To use MenuMachine with GoLive CS, you should first create a GoLive Site.

Solution

1. Launch GoLive CS.

2. If you see the GoLive Welcome Screen, choose Close.

then…

Go to File > New Site…

Note: The GoLive Welcome Screen should be disabled when you have MenuMachine installed.
See Article 000127.

3. The GoLive Site Wizard will take you through the steps of creating the site.

GoLive Site Wizard Screen 1:

Choose Single User and Next >.

GoLive Site Wizard Screen 2:

If you are creating a new site, click Blank Site and click Next >.

Note: If you already have a folder of web pages and images that you have been working with, you can create a GoLive site based on these pages. To do this you would choose Import from Folder instead of Blank Site. See Article 000134 to create a new site for existing files.

GoLive Site Wizard Screen 3:

Enter a Name for the site. Click Next >.

GoLive Site Wizard Screen 4:

Choose the location of the site.

Note that when you choose a folder, GoLive adds a new folder into the folder you have chosen. The new folder matches the name entered for the site in the previous screen. In the example above, the Documents folder was the chosen destination and GoLive added a folder called Web Site into the Documents folder.

4. When you choose Finish, GoLive will open the site and you can see the automatically-created home page (index.html).

GoLive CS Site Window:

You can open the index.html page and start working with MenuMachine.

Note that in a new site, you can only see one file - the index.html file. GoLive has actually created more files and folders in the site which you cannot see in the site window.

Files created by GoLive:

If you look at the folders created on your hard drive, you can see the Web Site folder created around the web-content folder. The web-content folder contains the index.html file (home page) and is where you should store all the files that need to be uploaded to your web server. When you look in the left pane of the site window, you are looking at the contents of the web-content folder.

Next to the Web Site folder are two folders called web-data and web-settings. There is also a file called Web Site.site and a backup of the .site file.

Do not change this hierarchy. If you delete, rename or move these folders or the .site file, the site will not open.

Do not change the folder structure or move files around inside your web-content folder UNLESS you are doing so in GoLive with the site window open.

Opening a .site file in GoLive opens the site window. If you want to edit your pages, first launch GoLive and allow MenuMachine to finish initializing. Then use File > Open to locate the .site file for the site you wish to edit.

The .site file is a kind of database which keeps track of changes within the site and can only be updated when the changes (adding/deleting/editing files) are made inside the GoLive site window. Changes made outside the site window may cause links to break and other serious problems.

Successful use of MenuMachine requires that the site window be open in GoLive and up-to-date. If you do need to make any changes outside of GoLive, such as adding files to the web-content folder, make sure when you next look at the site in GoLive, click in the left pane of the site window and use the Refresh View button in the GoLive toolbar to update the site window.

You can use MenuMachine 1 without the site window open but the menus on those pages will not work when uploaded. See Article 000020 if you have used MenuMachine 1 without the site window open and you can't see your menus once the page is uploaded. MenuMachine 2 can not be used unless a site window is open.