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Adobe GoLive 6.0 (01/29/2002)

Adobe GoLive 6.0

Entered CNET Catalog: 01/29/2002

SKU: 0718659216788

Manufacturer: Adobe Systems

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  2. Product summary
  3. Editors' review
  4. Users' opinions
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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.

Product summary

The goodThe good: Web Workgroup Server sets file permissions, tracks files, and manages entire sites; diagramming tool lets you create and annotate your site in flowchart form; integrates with other Adobe products.

The badThe bad: Free tech support is short-lived; vast array of windows, palettes, and tools may confound beginners; requires coding to set up a database.

The bottom lineThe bottom line: GoLive is our favorite professional-level HTML editor for anyone who's serious about designing and coding or managing a company Web site. However, the program can easily overwhelm hobbyists.

Average user rating: from 51 users
3.0 stars

Editors' review

  • Editors' Choice: Yes
  • Reviewed on: 03/14/2002
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. 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
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.

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
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.

Effective management for site administrators
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.

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
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.

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.

Take me back to the roundup!

GoLive's Layout Editor lets you drag elements around the page.

User opinions

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2.5 stars

out of 51 user reviews

Adobe bloatwareby perfumer - April 13, 2007

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

Review: Everything you need lost in a sea of complexity
User Rating:
4.0 stars

out of 51 user reviews

Best Web development I ever seenby - May 27, 2004

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

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1.5 stars

out of 51 user reviews

the program is glitcheyby - September 23, 2003

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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0.5 stars

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Workgroup Server Sucksby - August 21, 2003

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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2.5 stars

out of 51 user reviews

not a DW killerby - April 8, 2003

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Review: If ya just want to "build a web site" sure this is your tool. If you make your living developing wed sites get DW (if you don't already have it). I'll quote another reveiwer: "As far as DW coding "better" sure it definitely makes a little smoother and "valid code."...The GoLive code was only 5-7K bigger!" Think about that for a second. As far as DW crashing I use the MX suite all day every (working) day and it simply hasn't happened (no not once)since OSX.
User Rating:
4.0 stars

out of 51 user reviews

Best editor for the moneyby - March 16, 2003

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Review: If you're at all familiar with the other Adobe products you will feel right at home here. Slight learning curve, but easy to use once you figure it out.
User Rating:
4.0 stars

out of 51 user reviews

Amazing, feature rich, we chose Golive over DW.by - February 18, 2003

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Review: I took Golive 6 and Dreamweaver Mx head to head for a month, looking for a new standard app for my shop. Golive won. While both are powerful, Golive is more intuitive, a bit more stable, and has great features for developing in PHP, JSP, and ASP. (Dreamweaver can't touch the PHP support.). Integration with Photoshop was very helpful. While both would have been good choices, Golive defitaly had the edge. Teh amazing extras, like th easy to install mysql and php servers anmd the workgropup fetures were icing on the cake. No question-we are a Golive shop now!
User Rating:
4.5 stars

out of 51 user reviews

Crashproof, feature-rich, a new standard for apps.by - February 18, 2003

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Review: I love this app. I came over from dreamweaver and netobjects. Golive is like a great blend of both. I can design in HTML and PHP/MySQL sites without coding, and Golive has been stable as a rock on win 2k and XP. Great manual. Good forum support. As with any app, it takes time to learn and adjust to the new way of working but this was time very well spent-I now develop faster then Dreamweaver, more flexible and powerful than NOF or FP. And DW can't compete with the intergrated PHP/Mysql tools! Code is quite clean when you enable the auto-features to clean up your site. I have no regrets about buying this baby!
User Rating:
2.0 stars

out of 51 user reviews

Difficult + Slowby - January 11, 2003

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Review: Adobe Golive is the worst web editing software I have ever used. It delivers difficult and annoying interface with not enough support. Some simple and common steps, like adding pictures to the web pages, are made much more difficult than they have to be by Adobe Golive. Also it, by default, changes systems file associations. Therefore after you have found that Adobe Golive is very annoying and have uninstalled that, then you will have troubles in linking up HTML file with Internet Explorer. So stay away from Adobe Golive and use Namo Webeditor for ease of use or Dreamweaver for more powerful features.
User Rating:
4.0 stars

out of 51 user reviews

If you are a designer, work for a living, and have deadlines, do GoLive. Dreamweaver can kill You!by - November 25, 2002

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Review: I took Dreamweaver along with Golive into the trenches for 28 days. I took a design for a non profit that I had some time to work on and took my storyboards to development. I love Freehand and Fireworks but Dreamweaver just completely sucked for me. I got the whole thing done in GoLive in less than 4 days. It took me 2 WEEKS in Dreamweaver. If you have to move fast and get the job then use GoLive. If you have time to burn and want rigid awkward feeling sites, but lots of database interactivity go Dreamweaver. For now I rather take the few extra steps to set up dynamic work in GoLive than have to fight my design process in dreamweaver. As far as DW coding "better" sure it definitely makes a little smoother and "valid code." But look at it from my viewpoint. When I put the two pages with identical layout. The GoLive code was only 5-7K bigger! I have clients that need their project done yesterday. And they certainly aren't going to give me a completion bonus for a measly 7K less code!!! As far as crashes go and stability. Dreamweaver MX crashed on OS X 11 times, GoLive 1. Yes I kept a tally! Sorry if I seem to be talkin a lot of smack. But I have taken a little heat from one too many Macromedia graphic gestapo agent pushing their Dreamweaver rehash down my throat! So if you are a design who actually works for a living, and has real deadlines, real web design needs, and has a clue...Get GoLive!
User Rating:
3.0 stars

out of 51 user reviews

Choose for yourselfby - November 8, 2002

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Review: First, Adobe didn't destroy or do anything to the product that wasn't inherent to begin with...a reminder for our memory-challenged opinionators. 6.0 is ambitious and certainly worth a serious look. I think some will find it the perfect tool, some will complain without end and some will use a variety of tools to do the job. Download the demos of DW and GL and choose for yourself.
User Rating:
5.0 stars

out of 51 user reviews

BLOWS DREAMWEAVER AWAY!by - October 21, 2002

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Review: FOR PROFESSIONAL USE, ADOBE'S GO LIVE 6.0 BLOWS MACROMEDIA'S DREAMWEAVER AWAY!
User Rating:
4.5 stars

out of 51 user reviews

My new favourite tool.by - October 7, 2002

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Review: GL 6 is great. I'm glad I took a chance on it. I had problems with GL 5. I liked the interface but found it crashed constantly. GL 6, no problem! Runs like a dream, great new features. Easily an equal to DW or any other program on the market.
User Rating:
5.0 stars

out of 51 user reviews

Ignore the morons and try it yourself.by - September 28, 2002

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Review: This is a truly wonderful program. The abundance of naysayers is probably just the usual moronic dopes that get into these tech religion wars, or Dreamweaver employees, or both. Me, I don't have any such religious compunctions; I just like to use what works best, and for me, that's GoLive 6. Aside from its incredible feature list, there are two irrefutable factors (for me) that preclude me from going with Dreamweaver: 1) I like Adobe products and standardizing on them for interoperability, and 2) I simply like the way sites and published materials look with Adobe products better as opposed to Macromedia. In any case, the stability and usability and all the rest of the crackpipe "concerns" that are being brought up here are completely baseless; I've found the program to be completely stable and amazingly easy to use for such power. Do yourself a favor the way I did; ignore this multitude of doctored "reviews", try the demo/tryout versions of whatever software you're considering, and take all this smoke-and-mirror stupidity with a huge grain of salt. This program is terrific.
User Rating:
4.5 stars

out of 51 user reviews

I still don't know what HTML stands for ?by - September 11, 2002

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Review: A quote from a hot dog pro user to adobe golive welcome to the 21st century adobe it works ok with this config: xp pro 512 ram 2.2 gig processor and 512 to 1-gig page file
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3.5 stars

out of 51 user reviews

Feature Packedby - August 15, 2002

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Review: If you're new to Adobe products, plan on buying the Classroom-In-A-Book to learn this program. Overwhelming at first, the features are rewarding once you learn to use them.
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3.5 stars

out of 51 user reviews

NIce programby - August 11, 2002

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Review: I started using Golive 5, and recently bought Golive 6. I feel version 6 has many more features, and like the look and feel of the new version.
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5.0 stars

out of 51 user reviews

From both sides, I loves this one betterby - June 29, 2002

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Review: I have, for a long time been using dreamweaver 4. And It was great, I had never heard of GoLive 5 or 6, but once i got to DW MX, it was way to buggy for me. So I set off to find a new editor, and GoLive popped up on my screen, I downloaded the demo, and 4 1/2 hours, I was at the store paying them for it, although the price can drive you away, once you get the features.... it will just blow you away. It took me a good amount of time learning, but a lot of the people on the forums are nice :) IF out of a 10, i'd give it a 9 just because of the pay for support. But I will live without it :)
User Rating:
3.5 stars

out of 51 user reviews

Pleasedby - June 5, 2002

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Review: I am just toying around with webpage design, but can say, after trying out the most popular web design software, that GoLive is the best. I have to warn that it is difficult to figure out, but easily doable if you have patience. For example, it took me several hours to get a website built and working and I still don't know what HTML stands for or how to write it as computer code.
User Rating:
5.0 stars

out of 51 user reviews

Superb product for web design!by - May 31, 2002

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Review: I use GoLive and Dreamweaver extensively every day. There are about a million things that GoLive can do which Dreamweaver can not!
User Rating:
1.0 stars

out of 51 user reviews

Confirmed bug by Adobeby - May 29, 2002

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Review: I've found serious bug in GL6 -- removal of reference to the own GoLive JS library from HTML page. It simply destroyed first site I was trying in it :(
User Rating:
4.5 stars

out of 51 user reviews

Excellent upgrade for Mac OSX usersby - May 21, 2002

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Review: I've been using this program since CyberStudio 3. It feels very intuitive to me. Version 5 was prone to crashes in Mac OS9, but version 6 is solid in OSX. Version 5 users should definitely upgrade. Have Dreamweaver, but the only feature I like in it (that I can't do in GoLive) is the "clean up Word HTML" command.
User Rating:
2.5 stars

out of 51 user reviews

Bug-Ridden Cr*pby - May 21, 2002

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Review: It's buggy junk. Like version 5.0 (which was sorely in need of bug fixes it never got), you'll spend WAY too much time recovering from crashes to make this thing worth the trouble. I'm not talking about minor problems here either. No little memory leak annoyances - these are major logic bugs. Like you find in beta software. I'm not sure what's happened to Adobe, but between GoLive and Photoshop 6.0, my poor Mac G4 spends half the day crashing. Look for help, and Adobe will likely tell you that you have "defective hardware" or advise you to try re-installing your OS. Yeah, right. Most days, I don't have time for Adobe products. My advice? Skip it. Dreamweaver is still the one.
User Rating:
5.0 stars

out of 51 user reviews

Well done pro software!by - May 19, 2002

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Review: We have this software from ver. 5. Now in OS X it is a different kind of story. Fast, sturdy and logical interface resembling rest of Adobe family software. Very productive!
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0.5 stars

out of 51 user reviews

Takey da Go-livin in shovit we de sun doesnt evoleby - April 26, 2002

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Review: I hateuy this a programme it a stuck in a windy 2000 please donty buy unless you r we sedated
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1.5 stars

out of 51 user reviews

nothing innovative hereby - April 23, 2002

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Review: I was expecting something really great from Adobe this time around (don't ask me why) and I was disappointed. I have 50 machines to buy for, and I will not be buying GoLive.
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4.5 stars

out of 51 user reviews

Professional Level Power!by - April 23, 2002

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Review: I've been using this product professionally since it was GoLive CyberStudio 3.0. The interface, excellent link management, and integration with other Adobe products has doubled my productivity, and GL 6.0 only gets better. Most, if not all, of those that put it down have not taken the time needed to learn how to use such a powerful product. I routinely see complaints that are based on ignorance of proper use. Does anybody read manuals anymore? BTW the GoLive manual is NOT that bad if you actually read it.
User Rating:
5.0 stars

out of 51 user reviews

A solid upgradeby - April 12, 2002

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Review: Not sure why there are so many folks that are insanely loyal to either Dreamweaver or GoLive (sort of like the tired PC vs. Mac thing). I've used both, and they each have their strengths. Neither are perfect, but they're both solid products. I would imagine most of the negative comments posted are founded on ignorance more than intimate knowledge of the products. As for GoLive 6 (that's what the review is about, right?) if you're using GoLive 5, your money will be well spent on this upgrade.
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1.0 stars

out of 51 user reviews

Dreamweaver is still king of the hill!by - April 7, 2002

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Review: I seriously think CNET needs to whip it's editors who are one sided. Macromedia's DreamWeaver is surely a worthy competitor and definately a better HTML editor.
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1.0 stars

out of 51 user reviews

Better than 5.0, but not muchby - March 29, 2002

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Review: I bought GoLive 5.0 expecting it to deliver what it promised. It didn't. In fact, it is easily the worst single piece of, uh, software I've ever bought. Based on that experience alone, I would not recommend 6.0. The program is bug-ridden, the support is intentionally difficult to reach and evasive when you do reach them (they actually know the product is no good, of course), and the documentation is terrible. In 5.0, two of the three included site templates were so defective they would not even run correctly - one caused the program to crash. From what I hear, 6.0 is better, but not much. I have been a fan of Adobe products int he past (Acrobat, PageMaker, etc.) but my experience with GoLive has been SO bad that I won't be buying or upgrading any more Adobe software.
User Rating:
4.5 stars

out of 51 user reviews

Top of the line productby - March 29, 2002

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Review: I must admit that I had problems with program stability using GoLive 5 for Windows, but GL6 for Windows is rock solid and a pleasure to use. Incredible integration with Photoshop, Illustrator and Livemotion!
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4.0 stars

out of 51 user reviews

Better than Dreamweaver!!!by - March 29, 2002

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Review: All you Dreamweaver fans that posted review...do you want some cheese with you WINE? I have used both Dreamweaver and GoLive and both have their strengths. GoLive 6 is just better. I recently asked a well known author that has written books on both programs what we thought. He said that GoLive 6 was his favorite! GoLive 6 in his valued opinion is better than Dreamweaver! GoLive 6 sets the new standard.
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1.0 stars

out of 51 user reviews

Stick with Dreamweaverby - March 18, 2002

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Review: It's mind-boggling that the only decent wysiwyg editor in existence wasn't included in this article. GoLive pales in comparison...and always has. This sounds like a review that could have been written by some Mac-hugging Adobe worshipper. Adobe ignored web designers for years and it's their own fault that they'll always be playing catch-up to Macromedia. One of these companies "gets it". The other just follows and picks up some stragglers.
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2.5 stars

out of 51 user reviews

Unbiased opinion?by - March 18, 2002

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Review: The native PHP is a welcome addition, and one Macromedia should take on board soon to retain long term credibility. I know they have a third party extension, but this really should be in the core product. Anyway, I thought CNET prided themselves on being objective. Why were the Macromedia products excluded from the review? They are probably one of the most adopted products in the industry.
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3.5 stars

out of 51 user reviews

Consumes too much of the system resources.by - March 18, 2002

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Review: Adobe GoLive works great; but, I also watch my system resources dwindle to dangerously low levels. If this was the only program I needed to run, it would be great. When you add Outlook, IE and an image editor, watch out for a system crash.
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0.5 stars

out of 51 user reviews

Complex, but powerfulby - March 17, 2002

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Review: GoLive 5 was very good, but V6 brings many advanced features that will tempt designers to explore advanced web designs. Just the ease in editing tables is worth the price of admission.
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0.5 stars

out of 51 user reviews

Very disappointed...by - March 17, 2002

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Review: We have used golive 5 and were ok with it but were looking forward to 6.0...quite disappointing...The worst part of the whole processes is dealing with their support people...The first 2 tech's we spoke with were clueless...This definitely is not worth the money...If you feel comfortable with golive5 stick with it but don't waste your time or money on this product. Any body that thinks that the upgrade is good is a new operator with little to no advance skills...
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3.5 stars

out of 51 user reviews

Cnet is afraid of the "D" word (as in Dreamweaver)by - March 16, 2002

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Review: well... to see a comparison of WYSIWYG editors and to forget to include Dreamweaver is a bit silly! The editor must have an adjenda or other motives than to really give a sound comparison of the top products. GoLive is not a bad editor, but Dreamweaver beats it hands down in many categories and Cnet looses credibility by providing questionable product comparisons. It seems like mixing editorial reviews and advertising has gone too far.
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1.5 stars

out of 51 user reviews

What was Kimby - March 16, 2002

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Review: Working on? In the review Kim stated, "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." The translation for this "reviewer-speak" is, "Go-Live is so full of tools and features that an intermediate-level web developer would go completely insane trying to learn all of the capabilities of the program. Also, to insure that you will remain completely in the dark, Adobe has seen fit to create the worst set of documentation that could be possibly created. Thus, if you purchase GoLive you will find yourself being forced to purchase about $90 - 100.00 of "Designing with GoLive" books, just so that you can begin to understand the application." Also, I would like CNET review to mention the configuration of the computers that the program was running on. GL6 crashed both my Mac & Wintel machines that I gave up and got my money back. Run, don't walk from this program.
User Rating:
5.0 stars

out of 51 user reviews

Greatest investment my company has ever had!by - March 16, 2002

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Review: The ability of syntax editing on PHP and MySQL is great and limits the amount of purchased programs. The easy to use tools gives a wide variety of options and selection. No matter if your young or old it is the most easiest editor I have ever laid my html on and I will continue to use it until someone can proves otherwise.
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4.5 stars

out of 51 user reviews

Another great Adobe productby - March 15, 2002

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Review: It gets better each time they improve it - and like most Adobe products it runs like a charm.
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2.5 stars

out of 51 user reviews

Looks good on paper.........by - March 12, 2002

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Review: but up to now I've been unable to successfully bring a current site into Golive 6 without crashing, freezing, etc. Adobe's tech-support was, as usual, unable to answer even basic questions much less offer any assistance. These 3rd party companies that Adobe and other companies use for their free 'tech support' puts a customer at a huge disadvantage but I can understand why they do it. It helps put profits to the bottom line so what are you going to do? Though I did think that having a 'tech support' person ask me if I'd considered re-building the entire web site a bit over the top.
User Rating:
5.0 stars

out of 51 user reviews

Simple, clear and powerfullby - March 11, 2002

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Review: It's so easy to built pages and a site with GoLive. The links with Photoshop, Illustrator and LiveMotion are realy cool. The best to work on Video for the Web.
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3.0 stars

out of 51 user reviews

Not worth the wait.by - March 11, 2002

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Review: Adobe waited SO long (two years? I don't recall exactly) to upgrade GoLive 5, that I switched over to Dreamweaver. GoLive 6 just isn't good enough to get me to switch back.
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2.5 stars

out of 51 user reviews

OK but expensive and complexby - March 11, 2002

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Review: Web hobbyists and other should try Freeway. Unlimited, free support and a free upgrade to the OSX version. The Erin Brokovich site was made with Freeway. Get a 30-day demo from http://www.softpress.com.
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5.0 stars

out of 51 user reviews

What you've been waiting for!by - March 11, 2002

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Review: Finally, this version addresses some needs of the pro web developer, including seamless integration with PHP/JSP. I am able to use hand-coded PHP and Golive's PHP on the same page with no problems. CSS implementation is great, as is the integration with all the other adobe apps. A must-upgrade for earlier versions of Golive, and for DW folks that don't know what they are missing!
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5.0 stars

out of 51 user reviews

Golive has become a Webtool-Environmentby - March 10, 2002

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Review: Golive has become a complete environment of its own in this version. From Workgroup-Server up to the Dynamic Content-Features (ASP/PHP/JSP) with an own Dynamic-Server-package to "click-and-go" for Mac and Win it has become a world which you rarely have to leave to use other specialized apps.
User Rating:
5.0 stars

out of 51 user reviews

Best graphical editor that existsby - March 10, 2002

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Review: Best graphical editor that exists. It is logical (compared to DW) and it contains everything one could ask for. It has easy of use at the same time as being a power software with a lot of strength under the hood.
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5.0 stars

out of 51 user reviews

This version puts Dreamweaver to shame.by - March 10, 2002

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Review: Adobe products have always had the edge on Macromedia as far as user interface is concerned, and GoLive has never been the exception. But now it is even easier! And this version even surpasses Dreamweaver in features. Way to go Adobe!
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5.0 stars

out of 51 user reviews

Stable, fast, well worth upgrading.by - March 10, 2002

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Review: This upgrade to GoLive 5 finally brings full Dynamic Content support for PHP and MySQL - the only mainstream commercial app to do so. Stability is excellent here, on Mac OS X and Windows 2000 machines and the new syntax checker and other tools make the upgrade well worth the money. Integration with other Adobe apps is superb, including the ability to place a master Photoshop or Illustrator file and change the text in the file right within GoLive. Along with its powerful new workgroup solution, GoLive 6 rocks hard.
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0.5 stars

out of 51 user reviews

Buggy, crash-prone - keep your moneyby - March 10, 2002

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Review: Another lousy upgrade on a product that once was the leader in it's field - until Adobe Systems bought it. When it was announced that Adobe Systems had acquired Golive CyberStudio 3.x there was concern that they'd kill this application - and they did. Support is horrible - the last version never was fixed but now Adobe Systems insists they will support it this time around. What the reviewer did not mention is the terrible documentation/manuals that accompany this product. If you buy this 'upgrade' then you'd better plan on spending another $100.00 or so on books to learn how to use these 'features' I'm getting my money back but not because of Adobe Systems - only because I purchased this with an AMEX card.

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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 XP , Microsoft Windows Millennium Edition , Microsoft Windows 2000
  • 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
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