Editing and updating an existing site

You can use Dreamweaver to copy an existing remote site (or any branch of a remote site) to your local disk and edit it there, even if you didn't use Dreamweaver to create the original site.

Note that even if you intend to edit only part of the remote site, to avoid problems you must locally duplicate the entire structure of the relevant branch of the remote site, from the remote site's root folder down to the files you want to edit. For example, if your remote site's root folder, named public_html, contains two folders, Project1 and Project2, and if you want to work only on the HTML files in Project1, you don't need to download the files in Project2, but you must map your local root folder to public_html, not to Project1.