Moreover, not only can you access a library of repeating elements to be inserted in the
page, you can also define templates to control the entire look and feel of a Web site??”and modify a single
template to update all the pages sitewide.
FIGURE 2-5
The Dreamweaver Site Map isn??™t just a pretty picture??”it??™s interactive.
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Laying the Groundwork in Dreamweaver CS3 Part I
Team-oriented site building
Until now, individual Web developers have been stymied when attempting to integrate Dreamweaver into a
team-development environment. File-locking was all too easily subverted, enabling revisions to be inadvertently
overwritten; site reports were limited in scope and only output to HTML; and, most notable of all,
version control was nonexistent. Dreamweaver CS3 addresses all these concerns while laying a foundation
for future connectivity.
Dreamweaver CS3 supports two industry-standard source control systems: Visual SourceSafe (VSS) and
WebDAV. Connecting to a Visual SourceSafe server is well integrated into Dreamweaver; simply define the
VSS server as your remote site and add the necessary connection information. WebDAV, although perhaps
less well known than VSS, offers an equally powerful and more available content-management solution.
More importantly, Adobe has developed the source-control solution as a system architecture, enabling other
third-party content-management or version-control developers to use Dreamweaver as their front end.
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