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ajor Web sites that are designed, developed, and maintained by
one person are increasingly rare. After a site has reached a cer-
tain complexity and size, it’s far more timely and cost-effective
to divide responsibility for different areas among different people. For
all its positive aspects, team development has an equal number of short-
comings—as anyone who has had his or her work overwritten by another
developer working on the same page will attest.
Dreamweaver includes a number of features that make it easy for teams
to work together. In addition to the existing Check In/Check Out facility,
version control and collaborative authoring have been enabled in Dream-
weaver through the connectivity to Microsoft’s Visual SourceSafe and the
WebDAV (Web Distributed Authoring and Versioning) standard. Of special
note is Dreamweaver’s robust support for Subversion, the open source ver-
sion control system.
Another member of the Adobe software family, Contribute, is tightly inte-
grated with Dreamweaver. Contribute-enabled sites can be administered
directly from within Dreamweaver with full access to the latest version of
Contribute administrative controls.
In addition to providing links to industry-standard protocols used in team
development, Dreamweaver also includes a more accessible Design Notes
feature. When custom file columns (which rely on Design Notes to store
their information) ...