managing multilple large sites

What is the best way to define sites for our working environment? I work in a
government agency where we have about 20,000 web pages on about 20 different
domains. We have just recently moved into the Dreamweaver environment and are
not sure how to keep everything working right. We have about 5 DW MX users and
10 Contributes but this number will grow over the the next year or so. We are
using IIS and Windows NT or 2000 on most machines. How do we manage the local
vs. remote sites? Do all the DW people need a copy of all 20,000 pages on their
local machines or do we define one local storage area and one live remote
server? I have tried defining the local and remote as the same location but
this seems to be wrong and cause all sorts of problems. I have tried the
multiple user local server for my specific department which seems to work most
of the time but we still have situations where the DW users have accidentally
overwritten files on the remote server when they had been updated by a
Contribute user. What is the best way to prevent this? We are using check
in/out but the problems occur most when we synchronize. We are also spending a
lot of time synchronizing to keep everything the same. Thanks so much for your
help...sorry for such a long post. Darla

Darla:

Clearly your needs are extraordinary.

If you have a local site on a remote network shared drive that everyone
uses, then you risk catastrophe with versioning problems.

If you have "local" local sites, then you avoid this issue, but everyone
must download files to their computer.

I am not sure there is an easy answer. Have you spoken with the people at
Macromedia about this?

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"hugdarla" <webforumsuser (AT) macromedia (DOT) com> wrote

What is the best way to define sites for our working environment? I work
in a
government agency where we have about 20,000 web pages on about 20
different
domains. We have just recently moved into the Dreamweaver environment and
are
not sure how to keep everything working right. We have about 5 DW MX users
and
10 Contributes but this number will grow over the the next year or so. We
are
using IIS and Windows NT or 2000 on most machines. How do we manage the
local
vs. remote sites? Do all the DW people need a copy of all 20,000 pages on
their
local machines or do we define one local storage area and one live remote
server? I have tried defining the local and remote as the same location
but
this seems to be wrong and cause all sorts of problems. I have tried the
multiple user local server for my specific department which seems to work
most
of the time but we still have situations where the DW users have
accidentally
overwritten files on the remote server when they had been updated by a
Contribute user. What is the best way to prevent this? We are using check
in/out but the problems occur most when we synchronize. We are also
spending a
lot of time synchronizing to keep everything the same. Thanks so much for
your
help...sorry for such a long post. Darla

I had a quick look at the help files in dreamweaver (F1) and most answers are
there! Manage sites? Contribute? Synchronize or should that be synchronise?
You need discipline and knowledge of Dreamweaver to make it work. You could
try templates and only allow certain parts to be changed?

Thanks for your replies! I will check the help again but it looks like we may just need to contact Macromedia and see what they suggest. Does anyone else have a similar situation?

Darla

I think the suggestion to look at help was an exhuberant red herring.
Please contact Macromedia.

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(If you *MUST* email me, don't LAUGH when you do so!)
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"hugdarla" <webforumsuser (AT) macromedia (DOT) com> wrote

Thanks for your replies! I will check the help again but it looks like we
may just need to contact Macromedia and see what they suggest. Does anyone
else have a similar situation?

Darla