Hi

Heres the answers u wanted. Hope it helps/enlightens.

Dreamweaver won't but GoLive will. If you change a name in the GoLive
window, it will ask if you want to update and list the pages -- you
simply hit "okay." If you move a directory, subdirectory, image, page,
etc. It will do the same thing -- ask "would you like to update the
following pages" in a dialog window w/an "okay" and "cancel" button.

Not to mention, if you use components in GoLive for common things like
headers, footers and standard nav, you can change one item on the
component, i.e. add a new section to your navigation, and it will go
though and update all the pages which use the component. Huge time
saver!

Both GoLive and Dreamweaver have this layout vs. handcoding mode. The
advantage is that you're less likely to have your code re-written by
GoLive or Dreamweaver than FP.

GoLive will run these types of reports, Dreamweaver won't. GoLive allows
you to print the window, so you show the client what the sitemap looks
like, how many files there are in the whole site, etc.

FP has nothing new and useful that GL hasn't already had for years. We
stick w/ GL for its site-management, clean code, ease of use,
user-friendly GUI and a slew of other reasons. In our experience, GL and
DW are for professional level sites, and even though FP has come a long
way, we still leave it in the amateur class.

Cheers
Kevin Hains
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Cape Town
South Africa
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>
> Kevin,
>
> I've never used or seen the tools you mention, so would you indulge me
with
> a couple of quick comparisons here..
>
> In a collaborative web site with several people adding content (as you
> described), FP will instantly and AUTOMATICALLY update ALL linked pages
when
> anyone adds a new page.
>
> If the administrator decides to move an entire subweb to a different
> location within the web, it can be done with one quick, simple, click and
> drag,  and (just like above) FP will instantly update all the links
> throughout the web.
>
> Assume that I have a web site that wants to offer a special sale for the
> month of December.  With FP I can create the special sale page, upload it
to
> the web site in September, and have  the FP server extensions
AUTOMATICALLY
> put the sale page in place of another (or create a brand new page with all
> the appropriate links) on the first of December.  And then on the 31st, it
> will automatically put the old page back in place of the sale page (or
> remove the extra page and delete all the associated links).  And I can be
on
> vacation in sunny Florida when all this happens automagically.
>
> How do DreamWeaver and GoLive handle those types of situations?
>
> All versions of FP default to editing in a WYSIWYG (graphical) mode, but
> with the click of a tab, you can work in the raw HTML code just as easily.
> Personally, I would rather take 5-10 seconds to point and click the
> insertion pointer, click a toolbar button to insert an image file, and
then
> click and drag the edge of the pic to resize it,  rather than bang away on
> the keyboard and create 2 or 3 loooong lines of text code to place that
same
> picture.
>
> FP 2000 has more than a dozen reports that can analyze the web site and
give
> an accurate picture of the health of the web.  It can test all (internal
and
> external) hyperlinks and identify any broken links.  It can identify pages
> that are too complex and take too long to download (because of graphics or
> scripts or just because of length and content).  It can list which pages
are
> assigned to a team member.  You can create to-do items and assign them to
a
> page or a team member.  It can create a report that lists those to-do
items.
> It can identify old (stale) pages. It can list pages that have been added
or
> updated recently, etc, etc.  But what I DON'T like is that none of those
> reports can be printed  <grrrrrr....>
> they are screen displays only.
>
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