Macromedia this morning announced an update to its Web Publishing System (WPS), with a host of new enhancements and robust capabilities, including RSS activity feeds and deployment management.

On most Web sites there is a barrier between the people who want to update and publish content to the site and the Web site itself. Content eventually becomes out of date, improvements remain undone, and new information languishes unpublished - waiting for precious design time or development budget before going live. For corporate Web sites, large budgets are required to fund the work; for intranets or smaller sites, this often means doing the work when there's time - which means not doing it at all.