[WinMac] web contents software for Holly

Daniel L. Schwartz(expresso[at]snip.net)
Tue, 13 Apr 1999 08:42:44 -0500

        Dear Alex,

        Adobe GoLive is nice, but it's not team-based, i.e. only one user at a
time. I took a look at Holly's site at:
  <http://www.PlaneBusiness.com>, and essentially her site is simple enough
so that only one user needs the site management tools.

        After viewing Holly's site I would recommend sticking to one
platform...
The powerful image prep capacity (scanning & Photoshop) of her G3 isn't
needed. The most important part of her news-based site is the content, and
keeping it organized.

        After some private correspondence, I would advise her to look at Team
Fusion Server... Not to be confused with Cold Fusion. The advantage of Team
Fusion Server is that in addition to the standard client software (which
works about the same way as Cold Fusion), there is also a browser-based
tool that is platform independent, i.e. if someone is on the road at a
trade show they can log in on a laptop and insert text into pages already
created, or into templates.

        The downside is that Team Fusion Server is expensive: About
$2500 for the
software, plus either an NT/Workstation or NT/Server (x86 only, drat!) to
run it on.

        I have Team Fusion Server running at a customer's location
  <http://www.hemnet.com> and it runs quite smoothly. There are 4 instances
(4 Services (processes) taking about 24 MB of RAM each) of the Team Fusion
server running on top of NT/Workstation on an IBM PC Server 325 with a pair
of 233 mHz PII CPU's, 256 MB of ECC RAM, 9 gig 10,000 RPM UW SCSI HDD, and
Matrox Millenium II video card going into a 21" monitor at 1600x1200
resolution. This is also a Photoshop workstation and it runs a Team Fusion
Client. The Team Fusion Server runs as a Service in the background (a
"faceless" application in Mac-Speak), so even if nobody is logged on
locally the Team Fusion Server runs 24/365.

        It's a complicated system -- In fact, I only bought and set up the
hardware and NT, with someone else installing the Team Fusion Server. The
plus to this is remote content creation.

        Cheers!
        Dan

At 11:54 PM 4/12/99 -0500, Alex replied to my post to Holly:
>> Both Mac & Windows have good Web authoring tools; but cross-platform
>>team-based tools are scarce... And as you see with FrontPage, they can also
>>be buggy.
>
>Try unsing Adobe GoLive (formerly GoLive Cyberstudio). Right now it's
>available for the Mac and will be coming very soon for the PC. I use it
>to create and mantain web sites and haven't found anything better out
>there.
>
>I agree with Dan in sticking to one (albieit platform-specific) software
>for creation. Then you can use other tools for maintenance and uploads,
>etc. The nice thing about GoLive is that you can do everything with it!
>
>Alex Dearden
>pata@doglover.com

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