Macromedia Sitespring review

On the whole, Sitespring is a great tool for managing Web projects. It's a little limited when compared to some of its bigger brothers like Interwoven's TeamSite (www.interwoven.com/ products/teamsite) or Merant's PVCS (www.merant.com/PVCS/index.html), but the difference in price is considerable. The lack of being able to comment to anything other than the latest posting in a discussion topic and the difficulty in getting the pathing right for Web sites so that their pages display correctly when published to the project site are disappointing limitations. That said, as this is a first version, perhaps these limitations and quirks will improve with later versions. In my view, they need to if the product is to be taken seriously by the Web development community.

That said, Sitespring is well equipped to do what it's designed to do and the level of structure and control that it gives to a project will ensure that it makes many friends. If you're designing Web sites for external clients and there's more than just you and the dog, then it's worth looking at a product such as Sitespring and, at this price, it seems like money well spent.

Author: Mark Newton