site (a valuable feature if you want to keep peace on your Web design team). When a person working on the Web site checks out a file, other developers working on the site are unable to make changes to that page. When you check out a file, you see a green check mark next to the filename in the Files panel. If someone else checks out a file, you see a red check mark next to the file name. To use the Check In/Out feature, check the Enable File Check In and Check Out option at the bottom of the Remote Info dialog box. The dialog box expands to expose other options. If you want files checked out whenever they are opened, check the Check Out Files When Opening option (see Figure 4-16). 112 Part II: Looking Like a Million (Even on a Budget) Keeping the peace with version control Version control systems enable you to better manage changes and prevent different team members from overwriting each others work. If you already use these programs, youll be glad to know that you can integrate both Visual SourceSafe and systems that use the Web DAV protocol with Dreamweaver. This way, you can take advantage of the Dreamweaver sitemanagement features and still protect your code-development process. If you dont know about these programs, visit the Microsoft site (http://msdn.microsoft.com/ssafe/) to find out more about Visual SourceSafe. Using this feature, you can track which files a particular person is working on. But if you want to use this tracking mechanism, check the Check Out Files When Opening option and then fill in the name you want associated with the files (presumably your name or nickname if you prefer) in the Check Out Name field and then include your e-mail address in the Email Address field. (The Email Address field is needed for Dreamweavers integration with e-mail, which facilitates communication among developers on a site. See the next section for more information about integrated e-mail.) Staying in touch with integrated e-mail Dreamweaver features integrated e-mail as another handy tool for collaborative Web design when you use the Dreamweaver Check In/Out tool (described in the previous section). In conjunction with the e-mail program you already use, integrated e-mail gives you easy access to the e-mail addresses of other members of your team when you need them. When you work on a site with a team of people, finding that someone else has already checked out the page you want to work on is common. Until that Figure 4-16: The Check In/Out feature helps you keep track of who is working on a page when more than one person is contributing to a site. Chapter 4: Coordinating Your Design Work 113 person checks the file back in, doing the work you need to do to the page is