Re: [cobalt-users] What are you guys using

[Kris Dahl <krislists@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

on 5/1/00 6:23 AM, Robert C. Betzel at rbetzel@xxxxxxxxx wrote:

>> From the time that I started using this list, I have
> heard all of the bad things about Front Page and its
> extensions.  But, I have never heard what you guys are
> using to publish your sites.  I have finaly started
> seeing the light about Front Page and have begun to
> move to Dreamweaver.  Is that a product that you guys
> are using or is there a better one?  Just wanted to
> see.

We develop in-house using a combination of things--but basically, the
designer or web designer does the layouts in Illustrator.  Those are then
turned into rasterized images with Photoshop and opitmized with ImageReady.
The web pages are then layed out using Adobe GoLive and dropped onto the
development server using AppleTalk or Samba.  From that point, I take the
completed web pages and add the interactive features (MySQL back-end,
e-commerce stuff, content management components, etc.).  Then the contents
of the site and the database structure is moved to the test/qa server that
is connected to the internet (typically using an FTP client).  Then it is
moved to the production server (which sometimes is a virtual host on the
same machine)  by either moving the directory structure or FTPing it to a
stanging directory, and then moved to the production directory..

If I need to make on-the-fly adjustments to the live site, I typically
either use BBEdit via FTP or GWDedit via FTP.  But typically I edit the file
using whatever editor on the dev server and then use ncFTP to move the file
onto the production server.

-k