Dave Deming, Macromedia Product Manager for DWMX, asked me to post this for him.
==================================================== The site mechanism in Dreamweaver MX is perhaps one of the largest adjustments for a CFStudio developer to make when starting to use Dreamweaver MX for day to day web development work. To use most of the functionality of Dreamweaver, it is true that you have to go through the process of setting up a site, with local and remote views (although you certainly do not have to copy the entire remote site to your local drive just to edit a file - you can download just the files you need.) A new option was added for Dreamweaver MX in the site wizard to "directly edit files on a remote server using ftp or rds." While this does not replicate the Studio method of simply hooking up to a site and editing a file directly, it comes close. Files are automatically uploaded on every save. Give this mode a try and see if it helps. If not, a decent workaround is to create a new network place (in Windows) for the ftp locations that correspond to your remote sites. You can then use the integrated file browser to quickly open a file on one of those sites, edit a line or two of code, and resave back out. Many design view features won't work for files outside a site like this, but code editing should work just fine. We realize that this new site methodology is a change, and not as quick and flexible as the Studio methodology of connecting to remote servers in some ways. But it does give a lot of power to the developer that did not exist in Studio. In future releases we will be examining how to get the best of both worlds to give developers even greater flexibility. -David Deming Product Manager, Dreamweaver ______________________________________________________________________ Signup for the Fusion Authority news alert and keep up with the latest news in ColdFusion and related topics. http://www.fusionauthority.com/signup.cfm FAQ: http://www.thenetprofits.co.uk/coldfusion/faq Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists
