About site files and folders


    In GoLive, a site is a collection of files that are used as resources for developing and maintaining a Web site on a Web server. Viewers of the Web site only see files that you upload to the Web server. (See Uploading a site.) These files include the home page (usually named index.html), pages linked directly or indirectly to the home page, and media files referenced by any of these pages.

    Viewers don't see the rest of the files that are usually placed in the web-data and web-settings folders, and normally the contents of these folders are not uploaded to the server.

    The files comprising a GoLive site include the site project file and the contents of three folders: the web-content folder, the site web-data folder, and the site web-settings folder.

    • Files and file information that are managed by the site project file are displayed in the various tabs of the site window.
    • The contents of the site web-content folder are listed in the Files and Extras tabs of the site window.
    • The contents of the site web-data folder are listed in the Extras tab of the site window.
    • The site web-settings folder contains XML files of site-specific settings, and settings for the Colors tab, External tab, and Font Sets tab.