Back in '06 I wrote a .NET based website for my company using Dreamweaver and Contribute (not the faint of heart). Now that I have more control over a potential re-write, I'm looking to tell my company that I'm using Visual Studio ONLY (for my development work), but I need a good, simple tool that my content authors can use to add and update pages on the site. These authors are marketing people, mostly, and not web developers, so the tool needs to be as basic as possible, and Contribute was great for that.
Ideally, I would be re-writing the site with the following in mind:
Master Pages - I'm done with Dreamweaver templates. We have approx 20 templates, and each time they are updated I have to sync 3500 .aspx files, check them out, update them and finally re-upload them - takes about 15hrs usually. So, whatever tool I use for authors has to understand Master Pages.
Web Application - I like the idea of writing a web applicati ...
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