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Entered CNET Catalog: 01/29/2002
SKU: 23200324
Manufacturer: Adobe Systems
Manufacturer description
Adobe GoLive 6.0 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. GoLive also includes the new Adobe Web Workgroup Server, which offers sophisticated asset management features like version control that enhance workgroup collaboration and help you leverage assets more effectively. Now you can deliver personalized multimedia content to a worldwide audience anywhere, anytime.CNET editors' review
- Editors' Choice: No
- Reviewed on: 03/13/2002
With Adobe GoLive 6.0, Adobe has produced one stellar development tool. Its HTML-editing tools and WYSIWYG interface are accessible and powerful enough to build even the most complex sites, and if you use other Adobe applications, you'll appreciate GoLive's solid integration with those apps. In addition, GoLive's fantastic site-management tool (Web Workgroup Server) makes this program ideal for professional developers working on medium-sized to large corporate sites. Web hobbyists, however, will find GoLive overpowering and expensive; they should try Namo WebEditor instead. By Kim Wimpsett
With Adobe GoLive 6.0, Adobe has produced one stellar development tool. Its HTML-editing tools and WYSIWYG interface are accessible and powerful enough to build even the most complex sites, and if you use other Adobe applications, you'll appreciate GoLive's solid integration with those apps. In addition, GoLive's fantastic site-management tool (Web Workgroup Server) makes this program ideal for professional developers working on medium-sized to large corporate sites. Web hobbyists, however, will find GoLive overpowering and expensive; they should try Namo WebEditor instead.
A familiar face
With GoLive, you'll have little trouble building your site. To begin with, once you've opened a new project, you must choose to work in any one of several modes, including GoLive's Layout Editor or Source Code Editor. The Layout Editor is a visual, WYSIWYG, code-free work space. Here, you can drag and drop page elements, such as graphics, to different locations or change their properties through the Inspector tab. To create a site from scratch, head over to the Source Code Editor. As you type your HTML, the Code Editor lets you format your document in several different ways. For example, you can opt to color-code the syntax, number the lines, wrap words, and indent the text. If you can't decide which editor you want to work in, the View > Show Split Source option lets you access both views at once. Very convenient.
Hand-coders will welcome the new Syntax Checker, which verifies your code against a document type definition. Adobe goes all out here: it verifies your code for HTML 4.0 traditional and HTML 4.0 strict compatibility so that random syntax errors won't gum up your site, and it searches your code for browser-specific tags so that you can optimize it for various browsers.
Even cooler, GoLive helps you create pages in WML, i-mode, and WAP for deploying on wireless devices, such as Web-enabled phones. And although a few of GoLive's features, such as the emulator for Nokia phones, aren't available in the Mac edition, GoLive is still one of the few development tools with both Windows and Mac versions (along with Macromedia Dreamweaver).
Feature attractions
Effective management for site administrators
For those who want to save time and effort, GoLive's premade templates help you create an entire site based on already-designed pages; you just plug in your own text and images. You can even create your own master templates and lock certain regions, thereby limiting others' ability to edit them. For example, you could lock all regions on a page except certain specific content areas so that less experienced coworkers can update the content without messing up the design.
Support for a price
GoLive's Web Workgroup Server, sitewide templates and features, and its integration with other tools make it ideal for professional Webmasters who create and maintain large corporate sites. If you're creating a small personal site, however, try the much cheaper Namo WebEditor or CoffeeCup HTML Editor 9.2 instead.
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Adobe bloatware
Pros: Comprehensive Cons: If your life is only website design its fine if you have better things to do with your time(and money!) then get something like Coffee Cup
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Best Web development I ever seen
Pros: You can say what you will Adobe will always be the best Graphics app. on the market, No the intergration between GoLive And Photoshop is execelent Cons:
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the program is glitchey
Pros: has many fetures that interact seamlessly Cons: some of the errors or glitches have no explanations not even from the Adobe Support people. I was told they didn't know what was going on and that I should creat a whole other web site to see if I could duplicate the error. I have better things to do wi
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Workgroup Server Sucks
Pros: GoLive is a good product. The Workgroup Server portion of GoLive is a GREAT idea. Cons: Too bad Adobe is too inept to take this very important aspect of their product line work. Tech support = NONE Product Updates = NEVER Workgroup Server a joke. Take it off the market if you don't support it.
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not a DW killer
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Best editor for the money
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Amazing, feature rich, we chose Golive over DW.
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Crashproof, feature-rich, a new standard for apps.
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Difficult + Slow
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If you are a designer, work for a living, and have deadlines, do GoLive. Dreamweaver can kill You!
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Choose for yourself
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BLOWS DREAMWEAVER AWAY!
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My new favourite tool.
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Ignore the morons and try it yourself.
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I still don't know what HTML stands for ?
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Feature Packed
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NIce program
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From both sides, I loves this one better
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Pleased
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Superb product for web design!
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Confirmed bug by Adobe
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Excellent upgrade for Mac OSX users
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Bug-Ridden Cr*p
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Well done pro software!
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Takey da Go-livin in shovit we de sun doesnt evole
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nothing innovative here
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Professional Level Power!
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A solid upgrade
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Dreamweaver is still king of the hill!
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Better than 5.0, but not much
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Top of the line product
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Better than Dreamweaver!!!
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Stick with Dreamweaver
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Consumes too much of the system resources.
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Complex, but powerful
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Very disappointed...
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Cnet is afraid of the "D" word (as in Dreamweaver)
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What was Kim
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Greatest investment my company has ever had!
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Another great Adobe product
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Looks good on paper.........
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Simple, clear and powerfull
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Not worth the wait.
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OK but expensive and complex
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What you've been waiting for!
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Golive has become a Webtool-Environment
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Best graphical editor that exists
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This version puts Dreamweaver to shame.
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Stable, fast, well worth upgrading.
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Buggy, crash-prone - keep your money
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Like many of Adobe's graphics tools, including Photoshop, GoLive sports the standard Adobe look and feel. Its interface consists mainly of a primary editing window and a number of tabbed palettes, which pop up by default on the right side of the screen.
GoLive is so feature-packed that its interface runs the risk of overcrowding. In fact, it's possible to open a few dozen windows and tabs at once. Although the easy-to-use toolbars and palettes--which include the Inspector, the Objects palette, and the main toolbar--automate tasks that could take hours to code manually, their sheer numbers may overwhelm Web novices and hobbyists. To be fair, though, version 6.0 lets you add or subtract items from the toolbars, dock any palette at the edge of the screen, and minimize it as a tiny tab. Developers can completely customize the interface, using the included Software Development Kit.
Better still, GoLive's management and collaboration tools, namely, the Web Workgroup Server, more than justify version 6.0's $400 price tag. With these tools, you can manage your files on a server so that they are available to your team. With GoLive installed, you can check files in or out so that only one person can open a single page at a time. You can also track revisions to see changes to files, get a report of all of the broken links, archive your site, and roll it back to a previous version. The server software that installs along with GoLive includes a browser-based interface that makes managing large sites a point-and-click affair. GoLive also integrates nicely with Adobe's other tools--Photoshop, for one--so that you can, for instance, import a PSD file (a Photoshop file format) and resize it from within GoLive.
If you need help using GoLive, you can look for answers in its free online forums or knowledge base. The site already contains some support data on GoLive 6.0, as well as some for earlier versions. You'll also get a period of free phone support, but its length will depend on whether you bought an upgrade or full version. Once that expires, you must pay for e-mail or phone (6 a.m. to 8 p.m. PT) support. The cost ranges from $20 to $25 per incident or from $2 to $3 per minute, which is a bit steep.
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Adobe GoLive 6.0 specifications
- General
- Category Creativity application
- Subcategory Creativity - web design / publishing
- Version 6.0
- Language(s) English
- License pricing Standard
- Localization English
- Software
- License Type Complete package
- License Qty 1 user
- License Pricing Standard
- Platform Windows
- Distribution Media CD-ROM
- Package Type Retail
- System Requirements
- OS Required Microsoft Windows 98 , Microsoft Windows 2000 , Microsoft Windows XP , Microsoft Windows Millennium Edition
- Min Processor Type Pentium II - 400.0 MHz
- Min RAM Size 96.0 MB
- Min Hard Drive Space 90.0 MB
- Peripheral / Interface Devices CD-ROM
