GOLIVE CS V7.0 CD-ROM Macintosh Upgrade

Product Details

• Shipping Weight: 2 pounds
• ASIN: B0000DC6ON
• Date first available at Amazon.com: November 7, 2006
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #25,300 in Software (See Top 100 in Software)
  • #73 in Software > Web Development > Web Page Editors > WYSIWYG

Product Description

From the Manufacturer

Adobe GoLive CS software delivers what you need to create professional Web sites. Work with Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, and Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF) files directly within GoLive without switching between applications. Share Adobe InDesign files for true cross-media publishing across multiple devices. Maximize your productivity with a creative Web design environment that suits your style. Design without compromise using powerful tools that support industry standards, including world standards for mobile and handheld devices.

Features:

• Smart Objects: open, edit, and place Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, and Adobe PDF files within the GoLive environment.
• InDesign Package for GoLive: use XML to transfer a print publication's text and image assets to GoLive.
• Advanced Adobe PDF integration: create, view, and add links to Adobe PDF files directly within the GoLive environment.
• Visual layout grid: create, edit, and refine sophisticated tables with pixel-level precision in a familiar drag-and-drop environment.
• Visual CSS authoring: true visual CSS Level 1 and Level 2 authoring and previewing provide real-time style rendering and feedback.
• Information architecture tools: plan out your site architecture, deployed technologies, and content structure with powerful diagramming capabilities.
• User customizable workspace: select, arrange, and stash updated toolbars and palettes—including the new Objects palette and Color palette—to match your individual workflow.
• Multiple source code views: work with source code in five different views: Layout and Source mode split view, Source mode, Outline mode, Outline and Source mode split view, and the Source palette.
• XML editing and validation: author and inspect XML using Layout, Source, and Outline editors with validation.
• Integrated team collaboration: collaborate with a team over FTP, HTTP(S), and WebDAV.

Top Reasons to Upgrade to Adobe GoLive CS:

• Smart Objects: open, edit, and place Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, and Adobe PDF files within the GoLive environment.
• InDesign Package for GoLive: use XML to transfer a print publication's text and image assets to GoLive.
• Shared color management: achieve consistent color with the common Adobe Color Engine.
• Advanced Adobe PDF integration: create, view, and add links to Adobe PDF files directly within the GoLive environment.
• Prebuilt page designs: choose from 58 professionally designed templates ideal for image gallery designs, editorial layouts, Web-based forms, and business and e-commerce sites.
• Object Toolbar: with the click of a button, transform the Object Toolbar from a Photoshop style orientation to a familiar GoLive style orientation.
• Visual CSS authoring: true visual CSS Level 1 and Level 2 authoring and previewing provide real-time style rendering and feedback.
• Source code completion: syntax-aware extensible source code completion allows you to quickly work with tags, attributes, and methods based on blocks of syntax, such as PHP, JavaScript, XHTML, CSS, SVG, and SMIL.
• XML editing and validation; author and inspect XML using Layout, Source, and Outline editors with validation.
• GoLive Co-Author mode; allow content contributors to update and maintain content within an access-controlled Co-Author interface (separate GoLive Co-Author software license required).

Top Features for Graphic Designers:

• Smart Objects: open, edit, and place Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, and Adobe PDF files within the GoLive environment.
• InDesign Package for GoLive: use XML to transfer a print publication's text and image assets to GoLive.
• Shared color management: achieve consistent color with the common Adobe Color Engine.
• Object Toolbar: with the click of a button, transform the Object Toolbar from a Photoshop style orientation to a familiar GoLive style orientation.
• Adobe PDF design reviews: quickly convert your Web designs into Adobe PDF files so they can be distributed for team review or stakeholder approval.
• Information architecture tools: plan out your site architecture, deployed technologies, and content structure with powerful diagramming capabilities.
• Visual layout grid: create, edit, and refine sophisticated tables with pixel-level precision in a familiar drag-and-drop environment.
• Visual CSS authoring: true visual CSS Level 1 and Level 2 authoring and previewing provide real-time style rendering and feedback.
• User customizable workspace: select, arrange, and stash updated toolbars and palettes—including the new Objects palette and Color palette—to match your individual workflow.
• XHTML support; convert, update, and transform existing HTML site files into valid XHTML pages for Web and mobile devices.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

12 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars WHOA! They forgot something, November 19, 2003

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Andrew Leyden "PenguinSix.com" (Chesapeake Beach, MD United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: GOLIVE CS V7.0 CD-ROM Macintosh Upgrade (CD-ROM)

I've been using GoLive since it was called Cyberstudio and owned by another company. I therefore rushed to buy this update and was utterly shocked when I got home.

GoLiveCS does not have the built in support for dynamic content that was in the previous version (6.0). The PHP/Mysql/asp interface for creating database driven websites is totally gone! Apparently Adobe thought no one was using it so they axed it. Let me tell you, as one of the ones who was using it, this has rendered this "upgrade" into a "downgrade" that I would never have bought had I known. Unfortunately, neither the store I bought it at nor Adobe will refund my money.

I've gone back to 6.0. I'm hoping a third-party vendor creates a PHP/MYSQL plug-in that I can use, or I might just have to switch to dreamweaver. You can also check the Adobe forums on their website for more details about the "loss" in this upgrade.

7 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great for dynamic, fresh web design on multiple platforms, December 3, 2003

By 

Shahn Flood (Dallas, Texas USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: GOLIVE CS V7.0 CD-ROM Macintosh Upgrade (CD-ROM)

I have tried both Macromedia Dreamweaver and Adobe Golive and until Golive CS, I considered Dreamweaver to be superior. Now after using the latest versions of each product, I would have to favor Golive CS. It is quite simply every bit as powerful as dreaweaver and in some cases, far more powerful ( ie: the built in development capability for mobile device platforms ) I never would have given a Smart Phone compatible site a second thought - until Golive CS ( it just seems so easy now ). As an HTML coder, I am surprised to see that Golive codes pretty well. Very clean. However, I feel that Dreamweaver at least matches it in this regard and perhaps is even a cleaner coder as far as table generation goes when using the layers ( Dreamweaver's version of Golive's grid ). Other than in this one area, however, they both appear to code equally cleanly. It is the Smart Objects in Golive and particularly the integration with Photoshop that sold me. Sure, Dreamweaver will allow the addition of much of the same content, but certainly not as fast and it seems a little bit easier to place the content right where you need it to be with Golive. All in all, Golive and Dreamweaver run neck and neck, but the mobile features, Smart Objects and integration with superior graphics software seals the deal for me. The ability to change between a photoshop style interface and standard interface is a huge improvement as well.