So I still stick by DreamweaverMX 2004 as being good.
However, I do have a complaint.
In the file management resources, you can specify a local & remote server.
What I think would be a brilliant addition to the mix would be able to specify a development (with testing URL) server, a staging (with staging URL) server and a live (with live URL) server.
Complementary to this would be a remote storage server.
You can come close to this, with the local, remote view and testing server configuration.
But the testing server, as far as I understand it, MUST be one of those 2 places.
And in Dreamweaver terminology, the remote view means the live server --- otherwise, you can’t use Dreamweaver’s built in FTP functionality to connect to it. I woudn’t think that this extra functionality would even be that hard to implement, given what’s already there --- it’s just a couple extra flags and screens to configure for the user.
But it would be really useful to a shop like mine.
Further to this --- what sort of version-control do you use?
Being a windows-based company, as I understand it, I can’t really use CVS. I’ve been told that the Windows port is wretched and broken.
The only other software I know of is Microsoft SourceSafe, which is unconcionably (sp?) expensive.
Can anyone recommend something in between those two?
Or tell me CVSWin is actually fine?