Comments on: The problem with Dreamweaver as a CMS

By: Andy

Andy — Tue, 22 Jun 2010 16:18:49 +0000

Spot on… Why can’t Dreamweaver have a server-side DWT compiler, so that you upload the changed templates and the server prepares flat html files (saving crunch time, compared with PHP includes)?
That seems like such a “duh” thing to do.
@ the person who says “take a break when you upload”… It depends on your development style… If you make lots of small changes, like me, you need your upload / feedback cycle to be very short.

By: Eric

Eric — Sun, 09 May 2010 02:25:15 +0000

While I agree there are drawbacks, when you start dealing with pure business users … I can’t imagine the havoc they will cause with Joomla, and to a lesser extent Drupal. Joomla does not have any notion of a Native CCK, imagine users tearing apart your well defined content, JCE/TinyMCE destryoing your custom code. It seems your big gripe is with the downloads and syncing, I thought there was a way to automate this a little better, and if you need to reupload the whole website because of a root-DWT change, then you can take a break. Most web CMS do too much to decouple the template from the content, which limits the end-users ability to use custom CSS classes throughout the content, without gaining some tech knowledge (then again, how many users now about format styles in MS Word). Unless your website is highly dynamic, with lots of web apps, Contribute seems to make a lot of sense. And, of course where appropriate you can right some DB driven elements to reduce page count. I have been a long time Joomla developer and I am just sick of its weak content model and lack of workflow. When I design a page I don’t care how complicated it is or about working without an editor, but for business users, they need to be locked down, kept away from the admin elements as mcuh a possible. In addition, I am coming across more instances where you need content staging and revision control – doing this with any DB based system is a true nightmare because of incorporating changes from the live site and content you create on the content/dev server.

By: Sajjad Khalid

Sajjad Khalid — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 09:56:47 +0000

You are 100% correct that Adobe Dreamweaver CS4 provides the tools to build a good template /a small website and Adobe Contribute CS4 enables you to Give some basic types of rights. But both of them do not answer the CMS question.

By: Wimm

Wimm — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 14:12:44 +0000

True