Here are some Important terms related to a site and their definitions

• WebSite

  A website is a set of pages that a visitor views on accessing the Website. These pages are stored on a server and visitors can view these pages using a Web browser.

• Remote Site

  A remote site refers to a server on which the files for the website are stopped. The concept of remote site is applicable from the web developer’s point of view and not from the visitor’s perspective.

• Local Site

  A local site refers to a location or folder on your local hard disk in which you store the Website files. You create and edit the files on the local site and upload the final version of the files to the remote site.

• Local Folder

  A Local folder refers to a folder that you create on your local machine to store the files while creating a WebSite. In other words, the local folder is present on the local site. You use the local folder as your working directory and store all the work-in-progress files. You should store all the elements of the site, such as HTML pages, images, and sound files in this folder.

• Remote Folder

  A remote folder refers to the folder to the folder that you create on the remote machine on which the Web server is running. Based on your development environment, you can define a remote folder for testing, production, or collaboration activities. In Dream weaver CS3, the remote folder is present on the remote site. When you create a WebSite in Dream weaver CS3, local and remote folders enable you to transfer files from your local disk to the Web server, which makes it easier to manage the WebSite Files.

• Testing Server Folder

  The testing server folder refers to the folder where Dreamweaver CS3 can process dynamic pages. This folder resides on what is known in Dreamweaver CS3 as the testing server, and is usually located in the same location as your Web server.