The document discusses how to use Dreamweaver's reporting and publishing features to check and deploy a website. It explains that Dreamweaver's Reports dialog box allows running HTML reports to check for errors or accessibility issues before publishing. Publishing involves copying website files from a local computer to a server, which can be done via FTP, a local/network server, or WebDAV. The expanded Files panel provides the best view for monitoring the publishing process by showing local and remote files simultaneously.

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2. Manage and Publish a Web Site: Lesson 8, Exercise 69 Dreamweaver’s Site > Reports command in either the Document window or the expanded Files panel menu bar displays the Reports dialog box. From the dialog box, you can run a number of workflow and HTML reports to check your site before publishing it. To run a report, first choose what you want to report on by clicking the Report on list arrow. You can run a report on the current document, the entire current site, selected files, or a folder. Then select the checkbox of the report you want to run and click the Run button. The HTML reports help you locate HTML code problems and oversights, such as pages that have no page titles. These reports can help you to locate errors in code you import from other sources. The Accessibility report locates problems that might affect your Web pages when people access them using text-only browsers and browsers designed for the hearing and visually challenged.

3. Manage and Publish a Web Site: Lesson 8, Exercise 70 Publishing is the process of copying Web site files from a local computer to the server that hosts the site and where visitors can access it. The server to which you copy, publish, or “put” files can be an FTP (the transfer protocol) server; a local/network server that can be on your computer or on your network; or a WebDAV HTTP (hypertext transfer protocol) server on the Internet. Dreamweaver also makes it easy for you to publish your Web site on remote RDS (Remote Development Services) and Microsoft Visual SourceSafe servers.

4. Manage and Publish a Web Site: Lesson 8, Exercise 70 You can publish your site—or put the files on the server, to use Dreamweaver’s term—using the Files panel in either its collapsed or expanded form. Using the expanded form, however, gives you the best view of the process because it clearly shows both the local and remote site files in one window at the same time.

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