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2-10: Many search engines use the description text of your Web page. 62 Part I: Fulfilling Your Dreams Previewing Your Page in a Browser Although Dreamweaver displays Web pages much like a Web browser, not all of the interactive features you can add to a Web page function from Dreamweavers work area. For example, links wont work in Dreamweaver. To test your links and verify that your page is displaying the way you intended, you need to preview your work in a Web browser. The simplest way to preview your work is to save the page you are working on and then click the Preview/Debug in Browser icon located at the top right of the Workspace (it looks like a small globe). When you install Dreamweaver, it automatically finds a browser on your computer and sets it up so that when you click this button, you launch the browser. If you want to test your work in more than one browser, you can add more options to the list by choosing Edit?Preferences and then choosing Preview in Browser from the Category list (on a Mac, you choose Dreamweaver? Preferences). Use the plus sign at the top of the screen to add any browsers on your hard drive to the Browser list. Putting Your Web Site Online In the section "Setting Up a New or Existing Site," earlier in this chapter, I show you how to set up a site and enter the address, login name, and password for your server. In this section, I show you how to put pages on your server and retrieve them by using the built-in FTP capabilities of Dreamweaver. To transfer files between your hard drive and a remote server, follow these steps: 1. Make sure you defined your site, as described in the "Setting Up a New or Existing Site" section in the beginning of this chapter and make sure that that the site you set up is open and displayed in the Files panel. You can open an existing site by choosing Window?Files and then selecting the site. If you do this properly, the files and folders of your site become visible on the Files tab of the Files panel on the right side of the work area. (See Figure 2-11.) Chapter 2: Setting Up a Web Site with Dreamweaver 63 2. Click the Connects to Remote Host button in the top left of the Files panel (it looks like a small, blue electrical plug). If youre not already connected to the Internet, the Connects to Remote Host button starts your dialup connection. If you have trouble connecting this way, try establishing your Internet connection as you usually do to check e-mail or surf the Web; then return to Dreamweaver and click the Connects to Remote Host button after establishing your Internet connection. When your computer is online, Dreamweaver should have no trouble establishing an FTP connection with your host server automatically. If you still have trouble establishing a connection to your Web server, refer to the section, "Setting up Web server access for FTP," earlier in this chapter and make sure that you specified the server information correctly. If you still have trouble, contact your service provider or site administrator to ensure you have all the correct information for connecting to your server. Getting all this information set up correctly the