Many current products, like Adobe GoLive, Macromedia Dreamweaver, Microsoft® Web Folders and Microsoft Office 2000 now support the use of WebDAV (Web Distributed Authoring and Versioning) to access and save content directly to servers that support the WebDAV protocol. If your license includes the WebDAV add-on module, WebSite Director (WSD) Express  provides you with the ability to to manage your web content using applications that support this protocol/interface.

When you use Microsoft Web Folders with WSD installed and WebDAV enabled, you can drag new or modified content between your local machine and the web server. To enable Web Folder Access to your server, you must:

1. Open Microsoft Internet Explorer (MSIE)
2. From the MSIE Menu, select "File" => "Open"
3. Type the fully-qualified URL of your web server where WSD is installed
   Example: http://www.mycompany.com
4. Select the "Open as Web Folder" checkbox
5. Select the "OK" button

Your server will now be visible in Microsoft Windows Explorer as a location under "My Network Places" that may be used as a source or destination when dragging content to and from your workstation.

To enable Office 2000 Access to your server, you must:

1. Open Microsoft Internet Explorer (MSIE)
2. From the MSIE Menu, select "File" => "Open"
3. Type the fully-qualified URL of your web server where WSD is installed
   Example: http://www.mycompany.com
4. Select the "Open as Web Folder" checkbox
5. Select the "OK" button

Your server will now be visible in Office 2000 "Open" and "Save As" dialog boxes as a valid location for retrieving and saving files using Office 2000.

When you use Adobe GoLive 5.0, Macromedia Dreamweaver, and other WebDAV enabled applications, you must first configure them to directly access content on your server before using the WebDAV protocol to manage your content from your workstation. Follow the instructions for your product carefully to ensure a proper connection to the server. 

Warning: Most of these products are not semantically aware of any specific WebDAV properties -- like the document-related information WSD stores as WebDAV Properties. That means certain functions will still require web browser-based access.

For the majority of you, the content management process should be as simple as:

1. dragging content from your web server to, or opening a file located on your server from your workstation,
2. using any third-party content manipulation product to modify that content,
3. dragging the new or modified content, or saving the modified file from your workstation back to the server.

As these products become semantically aware of properties they have not created themselves, the need for a browser interface (other than for system administration) will be reduced.