Adobe Dreamweaver CC 2014 v.13 - Manual (Page 116)

Version Control and Advanced settings
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Default Images Folder
Links Relative To
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Web URL
Version Control category
Advanced Settings category
Access the Version Control and Advanced settings categories in the Site Setup dialog box by choosing Site > Manage Sites, selecting the site you
want to edit, and clicking Edit.
Version Control category
You can get and check in files using Subversion. For more information, see Use Subversion (SVN) to get and check in files .
Advanced Settings category
Local Info
The folder in which you want to store images for your site. Enter the path to the folder, or click the folder icon to browse
to the folder. Dreamweaver uses the path to the folder when you add images to documents.
Specifies the kind of links Dreamweaver creates when you create links to other assets or pages in your site. Dreamweaver can
create two kinds of links: document-relative and site root-relative. For more information on the differences between the two, see Absolute,
document-relative, and site root-relative paths .
By default, Dreamweaver creates document-relative links. If you change the default setting and select the Site Root option, make sure the correct
Web URL for the site is entered in the Web URL text box (see below). Changing this setting does not convert the path of existing links; the setting
will only apply to new links you create visually with Dreamweaver.
Content linked by site-root relative links does not appear when you preview documents in a local browser unless you specify a testing
server, or select the Preview Using Temporary File option in Edit > Preferences > Preview In Browser. This is because browsers don’t recognize
site roots—servers do.
The URL of your website. Dreamweaver uses the Web URL to create site root-relative links, and to verify links when you use the link
checker.
Site root-relative links are useful if you are uncertain about the final location in the directory structure of the page you’re working on, or if you think
you might later relocate or reorganize files that contain links. Site root-relative links are links whose paths to other site assets are relative to the
site root, not the document, so if you move the document at some point, the path to the assets remains correct.
For example, let’s say that you’ve specified http://www.mysite.com/mycoolsite (the remote server’s site root directory) as the Web URL, and that
you also have an images folder in the mycoolsite directory on the remote server (http://www.mysite.com/mycoolsite/images). Let’s also say that
your index.html file is in the mycoolsite directory.
When you create a site root-relative link from the index.html file to an image in the images directory, the link looks as follows:
This is different from a document-relative link, which would simply be:
The appendage of /mycoolsite/ to the image source links the image relative to the site root, not the document. Assuming the image stays in the
image directory, the file path to the image (/mycoolsite/images/image1.jpg), will always be correct, even if you move the index.html file to another
directory.
For more information, see Absolute, document-relative, and site root-relative paths .
With regard to link verification, the Web URL is necessary for determining whether a link is internal or external to the site. For example, if your web
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