Haulin' Ass With Dreamweaver: 10 Site Management Tools [ continued ]

Time-Saver #9: Warp-Factor Nine, It's Design Notes!

Whether you’re working as a part of a design team or all by your lonesome, Design Notes provide a great way to keep track of those bits of information that usually wind up scribbled on scraps of paper, bits of toilet paper, or scrawled in the palm of your hand. A document’s status, a project’s deadline, edits, communication between team members—Design notes are a great way to keep things straight. Drop a note into a file by choosing File > Design Notes; type a message into the Note field, and hit OK. That’s all there is to it. Set it to open every time the file’s opened, and the Design Notes dialog will appear, letting the user know what’s up. Sweet!

Time-Saver #10: Auxiliary Power: Check In/Check Out!

Team members pissin’ ya off? Is it their B.O., or the fact that they keep over-writing your work? Sounds like it’s time ta implement Dreamweaver’s Check In/Check Out feature. This guy’ll ensure that team members don’t overwrite each other’s work as they build and update a web site, and they’ll be able to see who’s working on a particular file, so they know who to strangle while they’re waiting for a it to become available. To use Dreamweaver’s Check In/Check Out feature, all team members must have the Check In and Check Out setting activated for the site they’re working on, and Design Notes turned on. This is all done in the Remote Info tab of the Site Definition dialog box. As for that B.O. issue with your team members, I’d recommend gentle suggestions; and if that doesn’t work, Febreeze. A lot of it.

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