How do I "switch out" my current index.html with a new index in Dreamweaver?

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Ok, so I am working on the School of Fine arts website for my college and we are splitting up the Fine Arts into different schools. So, I am trying to launch the new School of Music website. I've been told that I need to switch out the index (school of fine arts) on the homepage with new index (school of music). How do I do this in Dreamweaver?

The School of Music site is already created. All the files are on the remote server. We even have a test site up an running.

Please only answer if you REALLY know how to do this correctly.
Thanks.
What do you mean "upload the new file"? All the files including the index file for the school of music site is already uploaded. What I'm trying to do is make the school of music site appear when you type in music.ku.edu instead of the school of fine arts page.
 
If you have FTP access, you can look at the "page root" which is where the index.html page lives, and first of all make sure it's named "index.html"

Some people refer to the "index" page when it may be called something else: default.htm, index.htm, index.shtml

The "index" page is specified by the web server and can be called anything. So be sure you're replacing the correct page.

I would do this:

1. find the page you want to replace
2. rename that page to index_old.html
3. upload your new file, giving it the name of the previous index
4. clear your browser's cache and test the page, make sure it looks good.


Good luck!
 
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