Adobe GoLive CS2 [Old Version]

by Adobe

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: 2.2 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: B00081G316
• Item model number: 23200455
• Date first available at Amazon.com: April 4, 2005
• Average Customer Review: 1.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (11 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #14,048 in Software (See Top 100 in Software)
  • #52 in Software > Web Development > Professional Development
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

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

28 of 29 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Nagging Bugs from CS Not Fixed In CS2, May 25, 2005

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Dave Pascal "Aeon" - See all my reviews

This review is from: Adobe GoLive CS2 [Old Version] (CD-ROM)

Very disappointing release! I have been a GoLive user for going on two years now and after a long waiting period, CS2 is finally upon us. Unfortunately, CS2 did not herald the bug fixes and core improvements so many GoLive users have been waiting for.

The most glaring problem is that GoLive CS2 still does not have a history feature. Even ridiculously simple functions like previewing your in-development pages make it impossible to revert to a previous state and undo any mistakes. Perform a find/replace and again, once you commit to the replace you cannot undo the change.

What is the point of previewing your webpage if you can't go back and correct a mistake? It is this kind of blatant oversight that damns GoLive to being a subpar program that just doesn't feel as intuitive or polished as other Adobe products.

There have been a number of small improvements (such as an advanced CSS library) but those changes cannot make you overlook the fact that at its core, GoLive CS2 is a buggy and fundamentally broken product that fails to deliver on every level.

Another poor showing. When will Adobe get this right? Not worth the money as a stand alone product and certainly not worth upgrading from CS.

13 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Close to a bull's eyes., September 29, 2005

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Michael Han (Illinois, USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Adobe GoLive CS2 [Old Version] (CD-ROM)

Compare to other web development tools, this one is ahead by many steps. I think the great features that set this product apart from others seem to be the fuller support for the latest Internet web standards (XHTML, CSS, etc), ease of plugin (called module in this one) development, and intuitively usable interface common among Adobe products. As many have pointed out already, it is still buggy, but you can continue to be productive following some basic advices found on Adobe's support website.

Common errors I've experienced are related to its integration with Version Cue 2, file locking controls, and FTP uploading so far. If you find it crashing more often, you may want to recreate the website from existing one (per advise found on Adobe's support website). Unfortunately, it does crash while working on a page time to time so you need to be saving your work as with any other program.

It's simply the best web design package out there with some annoying bugs in this initial release. The updates haven't arrived yet, but when it does I'm sure it'd be even better.

11 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Serious QA issues waste time, money., November 2, 2005

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D. Hartwell (Livermore, California) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Adobe GoLive CS2 [Old Version] (CD-ROM)

My wife purchased CS2 as required for her college courses. The product did NOT install properly, and it took two weeks with multiple calls to Adobe until we finally found someone technically competent enough to fix the issue. (Turns out if you have CS, you have to be careful to uninstall ALL components prior to installing CS2. But that is not documented except in some tech manual inside Adobe support.)

She spent long nights for the next week trying to get a simple web page with images to come up without using tables. (E.g. using CSS.) Not being an HTML technical Guru, she thought the problems were something she had done. When she got back to school she found that many of the students are having the same problem. For example: the program ends with "a serious error has occurred" message, the display objects jump all over the screen when you scroll or click anywhere, it inserts bogus code into the HTML header, the graphics rendering is done wrong.

Bottom line: CS2 is completely unstable; do not purchase it unless you have to. The schools should not force students to layout a ton of money for something so flakey. If you can avoid it, don't buy this product. Adobe should be ashamed.

[FYI, we have Win XP, P4 2.2Ghz, 512Mb mem., and other programs do not have these problems.]