Best Practices: collaborate between Mac and PC

My nonprofit organization's Web development department is
expanding -- from just me on a PC using Dreamweaver and ColdFusion,
to me/PC plus a fellow working in Dreamweaver on a Mac.
I am looking for advice from anyone who has done development
with a Mac and PC. Basically, I'm looking for some "best practices"
on how we should collaborate, without messing up each other's work.
He will focus primarily on the design aspects of projects: CSS, for
example. I will work primarily on the ColdFusion coding that allows
us to pull information into the .cfm pages from our databases.
I just greatly fear getting into a situation where he's
making changes to one version of a file and I'm making changes to
another--disaster! Alternatively, I worry (since he's a new guy ...
I've known him for about two weeks!) that his work could "mess up"
pages that were working fine until he got his hands on them.
Advice would be really appreciated. Because he and I have
such complementary skills, this could be a great collaboration.
Just want to make sure we do it as right as we can from the get-go.
--diane

Diane,
You had said lot of issues at all once. I certainly
understand the issues you are saying.
As for new guy the non-profit agency recently hired, the
interviewer should have ask the candidates for their showcase or
portfolio of their past work in web design. It is very important
that interviewers to understand this to see showcase or portfolio
when it comes to creative work involved.
As for collaboration between PC and Mac, really, you
shouldn't be overly concerned about this. Most importantly of all,
it is important to know what is under the hood of HTML and CSS,
hands-on experience, understanding on how HTML works and what's
not. Then there is some comfort zone with HTML/CSS, then there is
lot of intitution or natural feeling comes along with Dreamweaver.
If this new person you are talking about, that if he doesn't
have any experience in working with data-driven application, then
don't let him do it. Only you do this part.
Clearly, it is obvious. Part of collaboration is having a
good teamwork -- to work together as a team is important. That
applies to two-way communication, that is part of collaboration.
To clarify the version of Dreamweaver and Cold Fusion, which
version are you referring it to?
Hope that helps. Good luck with your collaboration project.
Cheers,
Brian

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