Dropping a partially built site into Dreamweaver

Jacky Kenna · June 23rd, 2005, 08:15 AM

Hi All

I am involved in a project with some colleagues. I would like to be able to use Dreamweaver as a platform so that we could make changes without having different copies of the site held locally. A lot of the site has been written. How easy would it be to copy the code, css files, and images? And dump the lot into Dreamweaver? And then use a Linux server as a remote. And would this make any sense at all.

The project runs on a Linux box and use PHP MYSQL JavaScript.

This may not be the correct place to dump this question. However my limited knowledge comes from this excellent book. Should the administrators fell it should be moved then please shift it.

All the Best

Jacky

Imar · June 23rd, 2005, 01:28 PM

Hi Jacky,

Since this forum is specifically for the books Beginning Dreamweaver MX / MX 2004, a more suitable forum would have been the Dreamweaver forum.

Anyway, I am a bit puzzled by this question. You just don't "dump the lot into Dreamweaver". Dreamweaver allows you to edit text based files and that's it (pretty simplified description). It does not have any restrive project or solution formats that tie you to a platform or a location.
Dreamweaver supports LAN, WebDav, RDS and FTP to get and put files over any network. So, as you long as the Linux server is somehow accessible (most likely FTP) you can use Dreamweaver to modify the site.
Even then, you could get a local version of the site, work on it and then sync back the changes.
Dreamweaver has limited support for team development. It supports its own (very basic) Check In and Check Out mechanism and it supports Microsoft Source Safe (not likely to be used on your Linux platform). However, even working with a separate source control solution like Source Gear is very well possible with Dreamweaver, although not as embedded as its own CICO (but much more powerful though).

Would you further like to clarify your question from this thread: http://p2p.wrox.com/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=31901 ??

Cheers,

Imar
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