[bndfc-web-tech] WebDAV and connecting to development site

[Chris Croome]

Hi

For MKDoc and Plone there are different answers to this...

On Thu 15-Jul-2004 at 01:13:12PM +0100, Jamie Marriott wrote:
> 
> Dreamweaver has WebDAV built into it (along with FTP, RDS and
> SourceSafe Database). In the settings section, it asks for the
> http address, user name, password and an email address so it can
> connect to the server. I assume these are different to the ones I
> set up with you for editing content (I've tried them anyway, and
> Dreamweaver gives me a "Could not understand server response"
> message). I'm trying to connect to the development version of the
> site you set up to have a play with the templates/css.

The MKDoc templates for the job are available via WebDAV/Subversion:

  https://svn.mkdoc.com/bndfc/

And I can set you up an account so that you can edit them (at the
moment you have read-only access).

However I haven't enabled auto-versioning on the server so I'm not
sure that Dreamweaver will be able to connect and edit these
directly (I can explain exactly why this is if you need to know). 

So I suggest that you use TortoiseSVN to check out and commit the
templates, details here:

  http://mkdoc.com/help/howtos/subversion/

If however Plone is to be used then AFAIK Dreamweaver should be able
to edit the template directly via FTP or WebDAV and in addition
there wouldn't been a need for the templates to be updated via SSH
on the live server as is the case with MKDoc.

> On another matter, are the content editor pages also controled by
> a template, and can the look of the user interface be modified
> stylistically to match the design of the website?

Yes, this can be done with both Plone and MKdoc (though Plone does
it by default anyway).

Chris

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