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I am learning Designer and Sharepoint.
What is the recommended way to use source control when making a Sharepoint internet site.
I am used to having a sandbox locally, then making and editing files, then pushing out to a server, but this does not seem to be the case for Sharepoint?
Designer is very dangerous and most sysadmins will just block access on the SharePoint farm. Since Designer is accessing the live farm, and one could, in theory, blow a site out of the water, it’s usually denied access. (In other words, there really isn’t ‘source control’ with this model. It’s akin to editing a live web site on the server via FrontPage.)
On a more advanced level, it’s recommended that you use Visual Studio to create Solutions that are then migrated from your local SharePoint (for dev) to a staging farm (for testing) and then production. The trick there is keeping all 3 environments in relative sync.