Customer Reviews

Adobe GoLive CS [Old Version]

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NO Dynamic content. Adobe completely left dynamic content out of this product. The css features are improved. The templates they advertise are only page templates not site templates.
Don't upgrade.
Adobe has completely forgotten the consumer and removed one of the most important features of golive. They could have at least left the features from version 6 in, but didn't. All this is, is a re-design of Golive 4.0
Adobe also expects you to buy third party software if you want dynamic content. Well, this starts at $300 from Zend studios. WHY???

GoLive CS 7.01 is the most unstable application on my system (100% serious). It crashs when doing very basic things like handling text and using the built in FTP. It crashes all the time. I must admit that version 7.01 is a little more stable than GoLive CS 7.0, but this kind of stablity does not cut it. I had over five GoLive CS 7.01 crashes yesterday (once is too much). GoLive CS 7.01 does nothing for me but cause me rework (constantly) and paranoia of the next impending crash (When will it happen? I promise it will crash). For now I would WARN anyone to steer clear of GoLive CS and wait and see if Adobe is even able to fix this broken or buggy application. The GoLive CS 7.01 code is bad. GoLive CS 7.0 code is even worse.

GoLive CS is a very buggy application. Despite running on a very stable Windows XP system (2.8ghz cpu, 2048mb RAM, 2x WD 7200 80gig HD), GoLive repeatedly freezes forcing you to kill the application from the task manager. Additionally, functions within the app such as FTP Browser will freeze or fail when transferring even benign text files or simple HTML files.

This program is very frustrating, has a number of show stopping bugs that are still waiting to be patched and certainly nothing like the quality we have come to expect from an Adobe product.

This product is terrible and should be removed from store shelves immediately.

In the final analysis, the best feature of Go Live has been abandon and the product is so unstable that I found it un-usable.

Buy Go Live 6.0 or Dreamweaver. Go Live 7.0 crashed at least 30 times in 24 hours, and lost dozens of links in my website, it lost the configuration information and created other problems. I uninstalled it and reinstalled Go Live 6.0, which at least is stable enough to use, it only crashes a few times a day. Go Live 7.0 is not ready for release!!! I spent $400 on private, high end tech support to try to get it not to crash. Don't waste your money or time.

Go live 6.0's main problem for me was that it will not update files that are outside of the website directory. Each file needs to be manually re-linked every time it is updated. On the positive side, Go live 6.0 does run, and will let you preview your site and directly edit anything you don't like. This extremely convenient feature was the reason I chose Go Live. Adobe abandon this feature in Go Live CE 7.0 and it makes maintaining a web site like mine twice as much work.

Adobe did fix the bug that won't update files outside the web directory, but Go live CE 7.0 still won't even run an Adobe photo gallery created outside the web site. This is pathetic same company product interaction. There is a reason that Adobe wants around $300 a year for tech support. Your going to need lots of it.

Adobe GoLive CS crashes every 5 minutes or even less. It crashes without any warning and you loose your unsaved job. It's impossible to build any website with this soft, absolutly impossible. This problem has been repport by a considerable number of customers to Adobe. For $400, I expect the programm to work.

I agree with the above listed comment! Adobe has renamed key functions like floating boxes to layers and rearranged the locations of common tools found in previous versions. Adobe must have decided that after pulling this stunt with Photoshop 6 it was GoLive's turn. What are they thinking? Being a web designer the last thing I want to do is relearn a software package that I have been using forever. The only reason I am giving GoLive two stars is the new intergraded PDF functions that should be included in all of Adobe's software.

GoLive CS (7.x)?
- Crashes very often, even on basic commands.
- Basic bugs: site window with nothin in it, for instance? Very nice!!
- Prefs or shortcuts vanishing...
- Desperately slow: just for text corrections or to download a site to the server, you'll have to be very very zen.
This is grreat: I'm on G5 2x2 Ghz and all that (and more was faster) and more reliable on GoLive 5.x on a G4 400 Mhz.
What's the idea of Adobe teams about that? Ignorance? I don't think so...
Then why?

I realize there are a number of folks who have obviously have issues with this newest version of GoLive. However, my experience has been very good. It's been very stable for me so far, and in my opinion many of the features which have changed deserved to be changed. I am using version 7.02 - you should update right after the initial install.

While some of the changed interface takes some getting used to, I've found I like most of the usage improvements. In a couple of days I was quite comfortable - even with the renaming floating boxes to layers. I don't miss any support for dynamic content since I never used it. I use MenuMachine extend scripts and they worked fine - which is the area that I expected problems in.

I think that new users will have a better time of it with CS than previous versions, some of the annoying usability issues have been fixed in this release. The Adobe developers site has a ton of free full site templates for beginners, it is regrettable that they don't supply some with the software package itself.

I've been using it for hours and hours without any major issues. I've been very pleased with it.

Windows Version of Adobe GoLive CS:
This is the buggiest piece of software since Windows 3.1 !!! I've had NO problems with the other programs in the Adobe CS suite (InDesign, Photoshop, Illustrator, etc.). However, this is so buggy it is useless. Here are some of my issues with this software:

o It becomes sluggish after using it for awhile. I have to close & reopen it for it to work again.

o The "black bar" functionality, which is critical for creating sites, doesn't always work! I've seen other reviews where other people have the same problem. It makes adding web pages ungodly tedious.

o The tool tips are not even correct.

I received this with the rest of the Adobe CS suite. Unfortunately, I'm going to have to buy another web site authoring tool because this program is so buggy that it is unusable.

Alex Collins

This software absolutely SUCKS!!! I have the entire CS2 Suite and GoDEAD is the runt dog of the pack. It CONSTANTLY crashes regardless of what you are doing. Tech support is useless, they can't fix an unfinished, undeveloped program. Adobe sold this pig to use the public as their bug fix test grounds, kind of like microsuck. I am thoroughly burnt on this bottom end application. Do yourself a HUGE favor and avoid this one like the plague!