On 2007-12-03 12:10 PM, Greg V. Raven wrote:
Since upgrading to Leopard, Adobe GoLive 6 crashes much more
frequently than it did. I do all of my website development in BBEdit,
but when I get a new customer with an existing site, I almost always
have to bring order from chaos, and GoLive does some of these
site-management tasks better than BBEdit.
So it's time to update my site management software. GoLive seems to be
deprecated in favor of Dreamweaver, but either is expensive. I'm
guessing the benefits of Dreamweaver are its integration with BBEdit
and its goal of using web standards.
How does everyone else handle massive changes to static websites that
aren't built with BBEdit include statements, as any good site should be?
I'm already using various other tools such as Linklint to keep atop my
BBEdit-based sites, but I've yet to come across a way of -- for
example -- promoting or demoting a folder within an HTML hierarchy
without having to change all the in and out links manually, unless I'm
using GoLive.
I look forward to your suggestions.
I use Dreamweaver (with BBEdit, of course!, as my preferred integrated
text editor). Beyond the benefits of Dreamweaver that you cite, it also
will update links if you move files/folders around in the site
hierarchy. Further, for projects on which you are not the only web
developer, you can with a single click set up a check-out/in system so
that a page being edited by one developer will not simultaneously be
checked out by another.
As for the cost, $399 for a new license does not seem "expensive" to my
mind, considering that this is a tool you use to make money? Even if
only for personal use, how much is your time worth and how much time
might DW save you with its page authoring, php/css/javascript etc
integration, and site management features? Perhaps they even offer an
upgrade path between GoLive and DW (I don't see that upgrade path on
their site, but they are offering very fair upgrade policy for
purchasers of earlier version of Macromedia products, including the very
aged Studio MX that I bought all the way back in, um, 2002? -- so you
might wish to phone them and ask a live salesperson whether you can
cross-upgrade your GoLive license to DW)
good luck!
kazar
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