There are things not covered in any user guide that I wish I’d known, and the differences between GoLive and Dreamweaver are profound enough to (at times) make me feel like a complete novice to Web design. Now I know Dreamweaver, but I sure wish I’d had a guide to help me over the rough spots.
Cut to 2005 when the next big thing happened: Adobe bought Macromedia, and I was faced with yet another unexpected change-as an Adobe Solutions Engineer I would be required to learn Dreamweaver. bought GoLive Systems, Inc., and CyberStudio became Adobe GoLive. A few years later, two things happened that changed my life in countless ways. It’s also the number often employed in magazines such as this one-”Top Ten Best Tips of the Century” or “Top Ten Commands That Will Crash Your Computer.” But the main reason the number ten is so applicable here is because it was ten years ago that I began using GoLive CyberStudio.ĬyberStudio was at version 2 then and I fell in love with it.
#Adobe golive features trial#
A free 30-day trial is available as a 323 MB download.Ten is a nice round number just ask David Letterman, whose Top Ten list has been a comedy standard for years. GoLive 9 costs $400, with upgrades from GoLive 6, Creative Suite, or Creative Suite 2 (but, notably, not Creative Suite 3) priced at $170. In other words, you’re perfectly welcome to buy it, but we don’t recommend it, even though we probably put a lot of work into it. The first line on the switching page reads, “Before purchasing Adobe GoLive 9 software, consider Adobe Dreamweaver CS3, the market-leading tool to design, develop, and maintain websites and web applications.” But Adobe’s product page features prominent links to information on switching from GoLive to Dreamweaver. My guess is that enough engineering work had already been invested to finish the job, and that a core group of Web designers still prefer the GoLive approach. Needless to say, despite this release I’m still not optimistic for GoLive’s future at Adobe. And when Creative Suite 3 finally shipped in April of this year, GoLive was nowhere in sight (see “ Adobe Ships Creative Suite 3, Offers Video Betas,” ). Then, late last year, Adobe officially dropped GoLive from the Creative Suite in favor of Dreamweaver, untying it from the sole reason many people presumably still used GoLive: it was part of the bundle (see “ GoLive Booted from Adobe Creative Suite, Acrobat 8 Released,” ). Dreamweaver had essentially trounced GoLive in the marketplace, a fact reflected in the disappointing sales of the book we co-authored, “Real World Adobe GoLive.” Following Adobe’s acquisition of Macromedia in 2005 (see “ Adobe Swallows Macromedia,” ), Glenn Fleishman and I figured that GoLive would either be sold or put out to pasture like its sibling FreeHand (see “ Farewell FreeHand,” ). I didn’t expect to see any further development of GoLive, especially not what appears to be significant engineering work in GoLive 9. GoLive 9 also appears to be reinventing itself as a powerful CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) tool, even though its CSS capabilities have been pretty good in GoLive 9 now supports Intel-based Macs as a universal binary, adds paragraph and character styles similar to InDesign’s implementation, inherits the new user interface of Creative Suite 3, adds a Place command (also similar to InDesign), simplifies site management, and inter-operates with other Adobe applications.
#Adobe golive features update#
Last week Adobe surprised me with the release of GoLive 9, an update to the company’s previous flagship Web design application before it acquired Dreamweaver. Or, perhaps more apt in this case, wrong for the time being.
#Adobe golive features portable#
Preview selections, portable power for a MacBook Pro #1618: M2 MacBook Air available to order, Lockdown Mode, Live Text vs.#1619: Stage Manager first impressions, Live Text in Preview redux, SMS 2FA failure fix, moving large folders with ChronoSync.
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