Adobe GoLive CS2 (Mac) [Old Version]

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Product Features

• Author and validate standards-compliant CSS content for mobile devices, using simple visual tools
• Develop for mobile using global industry standards - features a complete development environment for CSS, XHTML, SVG Tiny, SMIL, MPEG-4, and more
• View SVG-t content in split-view interfaces, for quicker development of mobile applications
• Track and manage everything in your site, from assets to links, uploading content using Secure FTP and WebDAV via SSH or SSL
• Open Developer Mode for accessing GoLive site management features in a more comfortable, code-only mode

Product Details

• Shipping Weight: 2.1 pounds
• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S. and to APO/FPO addresses. For APO/FPO shipments, please check with the manufacturer regarding warranty and support issues.
• ASIN: B00081G2IA
• Item model number: 13200455
• Date first available at Amazon.com: April 4, 2005
• Average Customer Review: 1.6 out of 5 stars See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #10,880 in Software (See Bestsellers in Software)

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Product Description

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With GoLive CS2, you have the power of an easy-to-use WYSIWYG (what you see is what you get) Web design tool that is compatible with the latest Web standards. Take full advantage of CSS and take your ideas to new places with powerful mobile authoring tools based on CSS/XHTML, SVG Tiny, SMIL, and other global standards.

View changes to mobile and Web content in real-time with GoLive CS2's advanced live rendering engine.

Visualize It
With GoLive CS2's enhanced live rendering engine, you can preview changes to Web and mobile content in real-time. Use this feature to view your ideas quickly and effortlessly via an Opera browser-based environment that supports Small-Screen Rendering (SSR). With this version of GoLive you can also quickly harness the power of CSS with CSS prebuilt block objects. Drag and drop prebuilt CSS elements, such as a three-column layout with fixed right and left columns and a liquid center, to quickly build standards-compliant CSS pages that you populate with text and images. Plus, you can use a visual CSS layout window to create standards-compliant code that renders faithfully on mobile devices and Web browsers. Or, code by hand and verify syntax easily. Meanwhile, you can select and manipulate CSS DIVs or their content more easily and efficiently than ever before.

GoLive CS2 also boasts tight integration with Adobe InDesign CS2--Adobe's newest version of its leading print production software--so you can share designs across your print and Web-based projects. Transfer InDesign assets to GoLive with drag-and-drop ease, open an InDesign package in GoLive and export to XHTML to jump-start your site, or flow tagged InDesign content into CSS templates. You can also choose which InDesign page elements you want to import into a GoLive Web project. Plus, you can hide or show content organized on layers in an InDesign package, such as alternative layouts or localized versions of pages. GoLive also offers warnings for automatic page creation so you can detect errors and problems that arise during your use of InDesign with GoLive.

Share designs across your print and Web-based projects; GoLive CS2 is tightly integrated with Adobe InDesign CS2.

Develop Your Own Way
If you like to get down and dirty with your coding, GoLive is built for you, too. You can open GoLive in a comfortable, code-only mode that is great for developers who still want access to GoLive's site management features, but don't need the visual layout tools. And if you like a little of both, there's also a split view mode for CSS development that allows you to view source code side by side with either a visual CSS layout window or a large real-time rendering window. Because GoLive is built to keep you in tune with the latest Web standards, it offers batch conversion from HTML to XHTML, allowing you to transform, in one fell swoop, existing HTML Web pages and sites into more flexible, standards-compliant XHTML Web pages and sites. If you're a real whiz, GoLive CS2 ships with an enhanced SDK for application development that lets you easily extend the capabilities of GoLive using an XML and ECMAScript-based environment.

Managing and updating your site has never been easier with this version of GoLive. Secure WebDAV and secure FTP clients are built-in, both with support for SSH and SSL connections. Easily upload, update, and manage all your files on a server using these state-of-the art security protocols. Meanwhile, GoLive CS2's collaborative asset management tools allow you to track your team-based projects using popular content versioning systems like Perforce, CVS, or Version Cue. Or, you can use Local/Network File System Directory Versioning.

Easily author and validate standards-compliant CSS content for mobile devices using simple visual tools.

Go Mobile
Designing for the mobile Internet and mobile clients can be challenging due to a multitude of formats and platforms. Fortunately, GoLive CS2 eases the burden with a number of tools that will maintain your sites' compatibility across a broad range of standards. At the top of the list are new mobile CSS features such as visual CSS authoring for mobile devices. Now you can easily author and validate standards-compliant CSS content for mobile devices using simple visual tools. You can also take advantage of Web-based project conversion from existing table-based Web sites to a mobile CSS layout. Plus, you can query and validate CSS Levels 1 and 2 and mobile profiles with meaningful feedback that helps you achieve standards compliance.

GoLive CS2 boasts a number of other built-in tools to help you develop for the latest mobile devices. First, MPEG-4/3GPP interactive video development tools allow you to optimize video output. You can also add interactivity with mobile video editing tools that support MPEG-4 and 3GPP standards. Next, Visual MMS authoring and batch MMS conversion tools give you a complete and intuitive interface to create Multimedia Messaging Service templates for slide shows and text messages. Meanwhile, you can quickly batch convert MMS content for deployment on leading mobile devices. There's also a Six Apart TypePad and Movable Type authoring environment for adding mobile blogging capabilites to your sites, as well as visual authoring tools for NTT DoCoMo i-mode iconography, and SVG-t and SMIL-based content. Lastly, GoLive CS2 ships with onboard phone skins and device emulation so you can view your sites as they would appear in standards-based mobile browsers and visually emulate how your MMS documents will render on mobile devices from Sony Ericsson and Nokia.

Product Description
Adobe GoLive CS2 helps you unlock the power of CSS, with intuitive visual tools that build more sophisticated sites. Take your ideas to new places with powerful mobile authoring tools based on CSS/XHTML, SVG Tiny, SMIL, and other global standards. Jump-start your designs by easily converting Adobe InDesign layouts into Web pages. Design Web and mobile content in an advanced, standards-based coding environment. Gain the freedom and flexibility of building on open standards, while leveraging your existing Adobe assets through tight integration with the other Adobe Creative Suite components. Transfer InDesign assets to GoLive with drag-and-drop ease Automated favicon creation through the simple interface Track team-based projects using popular collaborative asset management tools like Perforce, CVS, or Version Cue

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

9 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars One of the worst pieces of software I have ever owned, March 28, 2006

By	Peter Payne "Peter in Japan" (Isesaki, Japan) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

I want to warn you about GoLive -- it is the most frustrating, least reliable, most crash-prone app I have used since switching to OS X. GoLive CS2 crashes regularly for me several times a day, and has even managed to crash WHILE SAVING A VERY IMPORTANT FILE, which wiped out an entire day's work for me, causing me to redo it all. Bottom line, Adobe does not deserve your money for this application, which they clearly dislike within the company (when you make a bug report, it's interesting to note that it's called GoLive, not Adobe GoLive). Sadly, the only thing to do is go to Dreamweaver...but that's not an option for me since its interface is not something I'm willing to use.

My distaste for Adobe is so great because of their crap with CS2 -- from the activation problems to not recognizing an upgrade of Photoshop (stand alone) when coming from the full suite set -- that I would willingly jump ship to just about any other product -- but opps! There are almost no other products anymore, since no company can stand against Photoshop, Illustrator, and so on (not even Macromedia). Bottom line, the actions of Adobe with CS2 (principally GoLive, since I rely on it so much) have robbed me of much of the joy that is my right as a Mac user.

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars A pretty piece of crud, April 21, 2006

By	D. Bailey "Designer" (Portland, OR) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

I want to like this program. I've been very patient with it through many versions and upgrades, but this latest version is so full of bugs and quirks that I wouldn't recommend it to anyone! In theory GoLIve is great. But, like an enabler in a bad relationship, I've learned workarounds, and weird working habits just to keep the program from crashing. I'm actually pretty patient and methodical--I shudder to imagine what using this program would be like for a novice user. Don't waste your money--this is total junk!

7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Great! (when it works), January 30, 2006

By	Rob S. (Bay Area, CA) - See all my reviews

I initially had a great time with GoLive. Having never used an industrial strength web dev environment, I was a little intimidated. Without going through the training or documentation, I was able to figure out everything, with a little help from Google.

Then, the crashes started. Crashes when I close files. Crashes when I open files. Crashes when I do _anything_. A GLCS2 reinstall fixed it, but not for long.

I would have given it 4-5 stars otherwise, because when it works, it works great. As it stands, I more "suffer through it" than I actually "use it".