Adobe GoLive 6.0 [Old Version]

by Adobe

Product Details

• Shipping Weight: 3.3 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: B00005V7GM
• Item model number: 23200324
• Date first available at Amazon.com: May 10, 2002
• Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #12,528 in Software (See Top 100 in Software)
  • #37 in Software > Web Development > Web Page Editors > WYSIWYG
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

Product Description

Amazon.com Review

Adobe has taken GoLive, its Web design and management tool, and improved its integration with other applications, adding a number of useful extras in the process. In addition to the design elements of the program, GoLive 6.0 includes sections devoted to Web site management and maintenance, as well as team collaboration.

The main working area of the program deliberately looks much like other Adobe applications, making it easy to move between them. The main editing windows float on the GoLive worktop, with palettes of functions controlling the tools. Users can now drag and stash palette tabs individually at the edge of the screen.

The key new features of GoLive 6.0 can be divided into three areas. Under the design-and-develop category comes greatly improved table handling, with new editing features--particularly selection--and increased control of HTML code. Adobe has also integrated GoLive more closely with Photoshop, Illustrator, and LiveMotion.

Manage functions govern how several people working on same aspect of a site handle different versions and revisions. The revision list is a good example, as it offers full details of who made certain changes to what, along with the time the changes were entered.

Finally, there's the deploy function, for when you finally launch your site. This feature offers new and improved support for WML authoring, writing for display on WAP devices, XML, QuickTime, and more of the growing family of Web standards.

Overall, GoLive is a worthwhile improvement if you're thinking about upgrading from a previous version. For newbies, make sure you're serious about Web site management, as this is a heavyweight tool. --Simon Williams

Amazon.com Product Description

The Adobe GoLive 6.0 visual authoring program has a lot to offer Web designers, not the least of which is the addition of the Adobe Web Workgroup Server. Building on previous versions, this release delivers powerful site management and collaboration capabilities, wireless authoring, and unparalleled support for incorporating print and video content. GoLive 6.0 also adds features that facilitate collaboration and help creative professionals easily develop content and rapidly deliver assets to a variety of outlets.

The Web Workgroup Server site management and collaboration tool in GoLive 6.0 lets multiple users track changes, as well as share and manage files, with ease. It adds version control and side-by-side comparison capabilities, including the ability to roll back to previous versions. Designers will also find full support for any WebDAV-enabled application in GoLive 6.0, including support for programs such as Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, and Macromedia Dreamweaver.

Other development features include a QuickTime 5.0 editing environment with streaming conversion and optimization capabilities. There's also a visual authoring environment utilizing video, audio, SWF, and SVG with support for W3C standards (including SMIL). GoLive 6.0 even adds the ability to deliver database-driven content and native support for common dynamic scripting languages, including PHP, ASP, and JSP. And, as always, GoLive integrates tightly with Adobe's entire family of professional design products.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

26 of 26 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Nope - it's doesn't match Dreamweaver, February 6, 2003

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Wy "wyattfoxen" (United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Adobe GoLive 6.0 [Old Version] (CD-ROM)

For the type of webpages I build, the ability to handle dynamic content is a *given*. A good web page creation tool isn't just a glorified text editor with shortcuts.

First, a few good points about GoLive. It's got great directory managing abilities. It comes with quite a bit of jscript and other scripting 'objects'. It's well integrated with photoshop, with the ability to make live previews, etc.

However, it's worst problem is that if you want to use newer web technologies, such as PHP, CSS, and other dynamic content, it isn't any better than a text editor like vi or notepad. As a comparison to Dreamweaver, it just doesn't cut the salt. It won't preview external stylesheets. It won't parse the php on your page to show you what your project would look like upon completion. It can't even handle server side includes.

Granted, Dreamweaver isn't perfect in it's parsing of such things, but GoLive is an order of magnitude worse.

14 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Solid Adobe product - but not intuitive, April 29, 2003

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Just another Music/Web/Technology Lover "rdf" (Thornton, CO United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Adobe GoLive 6.0 [Old Version] (CD-ROM)

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.

4 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Great for you OSX users, March 24, 2003

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Kirk A Fickert - See all my reviews

This review is from: Adobe GoLive 6.0 [Old Version] (CD-ROM)

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.