dreamweaver allows the user to continue to edit pages on the remote server while publishing. This is especially usefull when publishing large files or groups of files as the user does not need to wait untill the publishing cycle is complete before continueing to work on a web site.

the only thing you cannot do when a dreamwevaer is publishing is delete a file or page.

Old files or files that have been deleted from the local site can be set to be deleted from the remote site when files are snchonized.

dreamweaver can be confingured to synchronize with the remote server by checking the time stamp on each file on the website to see if files on the local site are newer and therefor need to be put on the remote site.

Conversely you can also set the syncronization to get newer files from the remote server and save them to the local site.

synchronization can also be set to occure in both directions to that the newest files are put on both the local and remote server so that each has the same files.

pages attached to templates can be manually updated by going to ...

for pages to be updated automatically templates must be stored in a file named "templates" so that dream weaver can recognize them as templates with attached pages throughout the site.

each time a template is chnged dreamweaver gives the option of updating all pages attached to that template. you can either update all pages attached to this template or you can opt to update all the pages in the site connected to all templates.....