Adobe GoLive 6.0

List Price: $444.99

Customer Reviews:

Great for you OSX users [Posted on 2003-03-25]
I have used Frontpage and Dreamweaver in producing web pages over the past few years. Most of my sites have moved to dynamic webpages using PHP/MySQL on Unix based systems. Adobe GoLive has great support for PHP and MySQL on an OSX based system allowing one to develop sites locally and test them before deployment. This is a cool feature mainly found on the Mac OSX version as I have not used this program on a windows Machine. The closest I come is running Windows 98SE via Virtual PC.

If you use a work group to create webpages, the Adobe WebDEV server is great for manageing changes amoung the different designers. WebDev took a couple installs to work correctly on our MAC workstation that doubles as our development/test server, but once it was set up, it has been easy to use and stable.

The one feature that Golive lacks compared to DW is no intergration of BBedit text editing software. There are still some mac coders that can't live without BBEdit and I am one of them. The lack of cross support with BBedit is why I gave this a 4 star rating instead of a 5.

Solid Adobe product - but not intuitive [Posted on 2003-04-30]
I recently tried out the free download version of two web editors. Adobe GoLive 6.0 and Namo Web Editor 5.5 (also on Amazon). Of the two, I chose Namo WE5.5, as superior. While GoLive seems to offer almost all the features I wanted, it certainly wasn't intuitive. The price was/is a bit high as well at $....

On the other hand, Namo WebEditor 5.5 had all the same features, plus more, and was more intuitive. Not to mention the $... price tag, which can't be beat. Templates, dynamic menus, site management, dynamic content, server side scripting with ASP, JSP and PHP, yea they both have it.

As time goes on, I may use GoLive more often, but for the moment I believe Namo is superior. The fact that both output clean HTML helps, and I am actually able to switch back and forth between both editors.

Adobe has its work cut out for it [Posted on 2003-08-30]
GoLive 6.0 was a marked improvement over the 5.0 release, which was little more FrontPage on steroids in terms of its capabilities. Unfortunately, much beyond that, GoLive still falls pretty far short of the mark for my needs.

I made a serious attempt to move from Dreamweaver to GoLive in an effort to standardize on Adobe tools for web development. I spent a good three months REALLY TRYING to make the switch. The promise of placing native Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop images in a page, and outputting finished GIF or JPG versions had great appeal, as did the promise of image automation (using one master image, and setting properties to change text in a headline graphic, for example). But the promise was a bit better than the reality.

Integration with the rest of the Adobe suite seems to be mostly marketing speak. The interface model may look in some respects like other Adobe products, but in practice, it's only skin deep. GoLive's interface is quirky (then again, so is Dreamweaver's in many respects). Perhaps people who start with GoLive may get used to it; for someone converting from Dreamweaver it was exceptionally difficult. Nothing seemed to be where it belonged, and time with the product did not make it easier.

One thing GoLive has going for it is that -- unlike Dreamweaver -- site definitions are file-based, not stored in the registry. Moving a site under-development from machine to machine is as easy as copying files, and all the necessary details come right across. Very smart indeed. However, the cost of this is a rather unusual way of structuring the hierarchy of folders containing your files.

For my own web implementations, what finally killed it for me was the lack of WYSIWYG support for server-side includes. This is such a fundamental piece of functionality in my view, and without it, most of the sites I'd designed were virtually uneditable in GoLive. While Dreamweaver too has proprietary ways for "including" boilerplate content (templates), at least it also supports industry-standard SSI for those of us who want to avoid proprietary solutions.

For my needs, GoLive needs a substantial amount of work just to regain ground lost to Dreamweaver, let alone actually surpass it. Unfortunately, it's looking more and more like Dreamweaver will have gone through two significant new releases before Adobe gets around to touching GoLive again, which is a real disappointment.

I still have hope for GoLive, and people new to web development with perhaps more confined needs will find it a worthy tool. To be sure, it's several steps above entry-level products like Microsoft FrontPage. But for professional developers, GoLive is #2 in this game, and destined to stay there unless Adobe makes a stronger commitment to the product.

Excellent Customer Service [Posted on 2005-01-27]
I recently purchased a copy of Adobe GoLive 6 (electronic license) from AngelExTech.com. They promptly delivered the serial number for registration and were very willing to assist me if I had any technical issues (which I didn't). I would recommend using this company to anyone looking for this software or any other package they offer.

B. Lowery
Webmaster, WebIce, Inc.

Tutorials clear as mud! GoLive is NOT intuitive. HATED IT!!! [Posted on 2006-07-14]
GoLive might have nice qualities, but the various tutorials are about as clear as mud if you aren't used to the basic concept/assumptions in the program. It is NOT intuitive. GoLive came with my CSS Suite, which itself came with only a horrible CD tutorial that was useless. I tried to follow the tutorial that is onscreen when you activate the program. First of all, it doesn't let you print it out so you must switch back and forth between the instruction screen and your new page screen. Then it instructs for things that didn't seem to exist on my newly created blank page (menu items that were supposed to be there but weren't). Then it calls for you to do things such as dragging a "smart object" onto the screen without telling you what a smart object is or how to find it. I have just wasted an hour dealing with this and am now in a horrible mood. I had wanted to upgrade from the old program I'd been using for years, Pagemill, and this is such a shock to the system. If the instructions were better, or if I had a live person helping me when I get stuck, it might be ok, but it isn't intuitive and it seems.... SEEMS so far, as if there is less creative leeway than my old Pagemill. I HATE GO LIVE!!!!

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