Best Setup for Working over a Network (What is it)

Question

Curious,
I'm been using Dreamweaver for awhile now, both at work and
at home as a hobbyist. My preferred setup when working on a set is
to be connected via FTP to the set so that I can work on the
documents directly without have local and remote versions of the
documents.
If I do choose a local directory and then also a remote
directory with and Local/Network connection for the remote files
that works failry well but I end up getting local copies of files
and folders that I'm working on, which is good for performance but
not so good when there is getting and putting of documents and a
slow connection.
My preferred method using a Local/Network connection for the
remote files is to do that and not even have a local folder and no
local files.
Like I said, the only remote connection for me that seems to
work well is the FTP connection.
Wondering what others experience is and what they recommend.
I guess I may have to change the way that I work but I would prefer
not to. I have used other programs as well (e.g. BBEdit (which I
like, I'm working on a Mac), TextMate). These are a little faster
but there is still some performance issue when working over the
LAN.

Answer 1

As a professional, I would never work in that configuration.
One silly
mistake and you have just clobbered your only copy of the
file. Of course,
I never make such mistakes, but I've seen others do it! 8)
I will always work from a local site, and upload to a remote
site. I test
from a local networked MySQL/PHP server. My sites are all on
a shared
network drive so that I can a) easily back them up, and b)
access the same
sites easily from several locations within my peer LAN.
When you elect to not have a local site, then you lose the
option to use
some of DW's basic capabilities, like Templates and Library
items. While I
rarely use the latter, I use Templates all the time (along
with a healthy
dose of SSI).
Does that help?
Murray --- ICQ 71997575
Adobe Community Expert
(If you *MUST* email me, don't LAUGH when you do so!)
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"An Ent" <[email protected]> wrote in
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> Curious,
>
> I'm been using Dreamweaver for awhile now, both at work
and at home as a
> hobbyist. My preferred setup when working on a set is to
be connected via
> FTP
> to the set so that I can work on the documents directly
without have local
> and
> remote versions of the documents.
>
> If I do choose a local directory and then also a remote
directory with and
> Local/Network connection for the remote files that works
failry well but I
> end
> up getting local copies of files and folders that I'm
working on, which is
> good
> for performance but not so good when there is getting
and putting of
> documents
> and a slow connection.
>
> My preferred method using a Local/Network connection for
the remote files
> is
> to do that and not even have a local folder and no local
files.
>
> Like I said, the only remote connection for me that
seems to work well is
> the
> FTP connection.
>
> Wondering what others experience is and what they
recommend. I guess I
> may
> have to change the way that I work but I would prefer
not to. I have used
> other programs as well (e.g. BBEdit (which I like, I'm
working on a Mac),
> TextMate). These are a little faster but there is still
some performance
> issue
> when working over the LAN.
>