What you don’t appear to cover is is having source files on PC A, where Dreamweaver sits, the test server on PC B, and a normally hosted “production site” on an ISP’s computer “C”. I didn’t want to possibly mess up/slow down my main PC with Apache and so on, so I put it on “B”. Maybe this isn’t a great idea.

My problem is Dreamweaver doesn’t appear to have a mechanism for doing a mass update of source files from A to B. If I do a live view, it asks if I want to update the copy on the test server, but it doesn’t update dependent files, like includes.

Am I missing something, or am I trying to do the impossible? I can run a utility to compare the local and testing folders and do a sync, or I could point Dreamweaver to PC “B” for access to local files, but then I’d have to have both PCs up to do even a trivial change on a static page. Either way seems to be a pain.

I haven’t been able to find any help or advice on this issue, so if you could point me to a resource, I’d be very grateful!

Thanks

David

FWIW, I agree that the book is a bit of a monster to carry around. I originally proposed two separate books, but my editor thought more people would prefer it as a single volume. Producing two books is more expensive, so the cost is reduced this way, albeit at the expense of convenience for carrying around. If you’re based in the United States, you might also be interested to know that all Apress/friends of ED books are gradually being made available in Kindle editions, too.

I bought a hardcopy version the CS3 edition of your ‘Essential Guide to Dreamweaver CS4 with CSS, Ajax, and PHP’ by David Powers. Excellent book but heavy to carry round, and the new edition has about 200 pages more, which means more material – jolly good; but some of as simply cannot carry that around.

I would urgently like to purchase the pdf/e-book version of the new, CS4 book so I can load it on my portable notebook and read almost anywhere – as my daily commute is my most precious reading time. Sadly, my search would seem to indicate that this is the only one among your books that has no e-book version (??). I was able to download chapter 6 from your web site but I need the whole e-book. Are there any plans at all to make that available for purchase?

Thanks you,
JoPee