Adobe GoLive 6.0
Adboe GoLive 6.0 for Mac lets you quickly design, build, manage, and deploy dynamic content for the Web and wireless devices. With its built-in Web authoring and dynamic database tools, you can now move rapidly from concept to site deployment.
Adobe has taken GoLive, its Web design and management tool, and improved its integration with other applications, adding a number of useful extras in the process. In addition to the design elements of the program, GoLive 6.0 includes sections devoted to Web site management and maintenance, as well as team collaboration. The main working area of the program deliberately looks much like other Adobe applications, making it easy to move between them. The main editing windows float on the GoLive worktop, with palettes of functions controlling the tools. Users can now drag and stash palette tabs individually at the edge of the screen. The key new features of GoLive 6.0 can be divided into three areas. Under the design-and-develop category comes greatly improved table handling, with new editing features--particularly selection--and increased control of HTML code. Adobe has also integrated GoLive more closely with Photoshop, Illustrator, and LiveMotion. Manage functions govern how several people working on same aspect of a site handle different versions and revisions. The revision list is a good example, as it offers full details of who made certain changes to what, along with the time the changes were entered. Finally, there's the deploy function, for when you finally launch your site. This feature offers new and improved support for WML authoring, writing for display on WAP devices, XML, QuickTime, and more of the growing family of Web standards. Overall, GoLive is a worthwhile improvement if you're thinking about upgrading from a previous version. For newbies, make sure you're serious about Web site management, as this is a heavyweight tool. --Simon Williams
The Adobe GoLive 6.0 visual authoring program has a lot to offer Web designers, not the least of which is the addition of the Adobe Web Workgroup Server. Building on previous versions of GoLive, this release delivers powerful site management and collaboration capabilities, wireless authoring, and unparalleled support for incorporating print and video content. GoLive 6.0 also adds features that facilitate collaboration and help creative professionals easily develop content and rapidly deliver assets to a variety of outlets. The Web Workgroup Server site management and collaboration tool lets multiple users track changes--as well as share and manage files--with ease. It adds version control and side-by-side comparison capabilities, including the ability to roll back to previous versions. Designers will also find full support for any WebDAV-enabled application in GoLive 6.0, including support for programs such as Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, and Macromedia Dreamweaver. Other development features include a QuickTime 5.0 editing environment with streaming conversion and optimization capabilities. There's also a visual authoring environment utilizing video, audio, SWF, and SVG with support for W3C standards (including SMIL). GoLive 6.0 even adds the ability to deliver database-driven content and native support for common dynamic scripting languages, including PHP, ASP, and JSP. And, as always, GoLive integrates tightly with Adobe's entire family of professional design products.
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Adobe GoLive 6.0 Reviews
Most of the experienced web designers I have talked to recommend dreamweaver. when I edit pages, strange glitches occur.Shareware programs are easier to use, although not as feature rich as golive. the ftp browser hangs on me everytime I upload. the interface is not intuitive. Unfortunately, I purchased this program because of Adobe's reputation. it looks like I will have to buy Dreamweaver Maybe Photoshop, Illustrator and Acrobat are great programs, but adobe has really struck out with golive. it has a clunky interface.
If you consider yourself more a designer than coder, and you like designing with Adobe software, then GoLive will let you work the way you like to work. If you are a photoshop user and have spent the many hours and weeks it takes to become proficient at using Adobe's GUI, then move to GoLive and you will quickly find yourself at home. Some will say this application is difficult to learn and overburdened with adobe-style tool palettes, and this is fair criticism. Also, from version 5.0 to 6.0, the coding compatibility has improved, particularly javascript. you should use GoLive for your webs. If you love photoshop, illustrator, InDesign.
I had used Adobe's PageMill to make tons of websites but now that I've upgraded everything to OSX on my computer, I thought it would be a good idea to do that with my web design program. Go Live is SO complicated, it's impossible for me to put together a website. No update purchase for me. THis is the worst of the lot. I can't seem to figure out anything in this program.
Speed is everything. I don't want to spend my life trying to figure out ONE application. I've been long time user of Photoshop, Illustrator and AfterEffects, but GoLive is destined to go in the round file.(wastebasket). Buzz,.big mistake. Put something out there that we can use for web design that doesn't give everyone that uses it a big headache that makes them incapable of producing anything that can be uploaded quickly.
Come on Adobe. PLEASE make it simpler.
If you're a Mac user I presume you have little interest in unneccessary complexityand GoLive delivers a level of complexity & difficulty that would make Microsoft proud. You'll get to know every member of the GoLive support team on a first-name basis.For the rest of us, please, Adobe, make a GoLive Elements program or bring back PageMill. If designing web pages is your life this may be what you need. And believe me, it WILL be your life for months after you start using this application.
The development team has obviously intended this program to be used by those totally unfamiliar with the concept of straightforward thinking. GoLive drowns in its own muli-tier, reverse-logical design. The Adobe team has a way of creating complexities for no particular reason. Every moment using this software is agonizing and frustrating. Please stay far away from GoLive. It boggles the mind to even imagine the possibility of an Adobe team with usability as part of their gameplan.
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