Most people who use Dreamweaver have their own way of doing things. We don’t want to force them to do something they don’t want to. Our goal in making a an extension for Dreamweaver is to be as non-intrusive as possible, but still make life a little easier. Here is one we are planning on doing that.
If you want to use Dreamweaver’s templating features, step number one is defining a “Site”. While it may not be obvious, finding the menu item to do this isn’t too hard. (Site -> New Site…)
However, I have found the setup process can be quiet involved. I did a quick test, and found out that it is a 7 step process to set up a site that allows you create your template, put it on a server, and test it out.
Here is a little screenshot gallery of the easiest, fastest way to do this in Dreamweaver (that I know of at least)…
The best thing about Konductor is that a lot of these settings either stay the same, or they can be worked out automatically. We know what the FTP server will be, and we can control how testing takes place. We can also work out some more advanced stuff behind the scenes once we know who the user is (like the FTP upload path and so forth). So we have been able to cut down this process to one step! Check it out…
I know this is a pretty minor thing, but it does save time searching through your emails for FTP settings, remembering FTP upload paths and so forth. I’ll post some more in this series about how we plan to streamline the design process in Dreamweaver, without changing it.
Tags: demonstration, dreamweaver, tutorial