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By adding usable new features without sacrificing its trademark ease of use, Adobe’s new GoLive 5.0 aims to do for Web design what Photoshop did for image editing. It’s been a long time in the making, but the result is a truly droolworthy program — a beauty to behold, with some serious power under the hood.
Our first experience was one of deja vu. As expected, GoLive has adopted Adobe’s tried-and-true look, which puts Dreamweaver’s clunky, inconsistent interface to shame. Many functions have moved to multitabbed palettes, further crowding your screen real estate (GoLive makes you long for a second monitor to keep track of all the elements in your project). However, as in other Adobe programs, you can keep clutter to a minimum by rearranging tabs within and between palettes, keeping needed functions on hand and removing the rest.
Despite the interface revamp, Adobe didn’t mess with the unique aspects of GoLive’s interface that so many designers love. The intuitive, tabbed Site and Document windows allow you to go back and forth between different site- and page-specific functions. The Mac-only palette-docking feature — with a Control-click, you can minimize palettes into tabs that hug the side of the screen — gives you more room to work. The innovative point-and-shoot tool, which connects objects and actions with one smooth move of the mouse, is a sheer joy to use.
Adobe has added a host of welcome new features, including dramatically improved contextual menu support, user-definable keyboard commands, cross-platform site file and extension compatibility, and customizable menus.
We used the new Transform and Align palettes to manipulate, group, and resize objects on the Layout Grid in a manner similar to Illustrator’s. A new History palette, which works exactly like its Photoshop counterpart, allows up to 20 levels of undo. Best of all, Adobe has removed GoLive 4’s annoying requirement that you press Return after entering data in palettes. GoLive also manages memory more effectively. Opening up too many pages (in our case, 20 complex, graphics-heavy pages) no longer predictably crashes the program.
Adobe has taken one of GoLive’s strengths, table creation and manipulation, and made it even better. The new Tables palette feels a lot like working with cells in Excel. The feature allows you to design and apply text, style, and color formatting with a click of the palette’s Apply button; sort data by row or column; and select multiple cells, which makes working with nested tables a breeze. The presentation of your table work in Layout Mode closely resembles the final product — not the case in Dreamweaver.
GoLive gets along better with its Adobe siblings, saving a tremendous amount of time you'd otherwise spend importing and exporting between programs. It incorporates native Photoshop, Illustrator, and LiveMotion files as Smart Objects, allowing you to optimize and manipulate them within GoLive. The Smart Links feature makes these objects automatically reflect changes in the original files — no more reoptimizing and reimporting graphics. Also, by incorporating Photoshop's Save For Web engine, GoLive allows you to make Image compression decisions at site-publishing time — not site-building time — and you can change your mind as often as you want.
GoLive finally plays nice with formats like Flash (SWF), RealPlayer G2, Cascading Style Sheets (CSS2), and WebObjects 5.0. Adobe has also improved the already wonderful QuickTime editor — it now delivers near- iMovie functionality, letting you drag and drop video. Flash, text, and audio tracks onto a timeline to create a unified QuickTime presentation.
For handling code, GoLive 5.0 is hands-down better than its predecessor. While the program primarily targets people who design sites for a living, its new Source palette is an ideal learning tool for beginning HTML programmers. The palette shows the on-the-fly changes to code that occur when you move objects around, so you get a good understanding of how HTML produces a page. This palette also allows you to hand-edit the underlying HTML quickly.
Previous versions of GoLive have frustrated workgroups. The program's former insistence on automatically rewriting HTML according to its strict guidelines annoyed many users, who needed flexibility to deal with custom source code introduced by new Web technologies and back-end databases. Version 5.0's new 360Code does not interfere with carefully hand-crafted code or custom tags (such as ColdFusion or XML) that are foreign to GoLive, so you can move back and forth seamlessly between GoLive and other Web programming tools using the same code. This feature works as advertised, although it will take a while to regain the trust of designers burned by older GoLive versions.
Other functions for working with code include dynamic links to ODBC databases; HTML snippets you can create, save, and drag and drop into any site; improved HTML and JavaScript editors that allow many formatting and presentation options; and cleaner code generation, especially for those using the table-based Layout Grid. You can search for and replace HTML elements, which enables batch changes of any tag-based element. You also have a full Javascript debugger for your programming pleasure.
In another nod to design houses and large workgroups, Adobe has included support for WebDAV (Web-based Distributed Authoring and Versioning), a program-agnostic protocol standard for group collaboration. WebDAV serves a version-control function by allowing multiple designers to check out and work on pages securely, locking them so colleagues can't edit them simultaneously. The process is a little trickier to set up than Dreamweaver’s proprietary method, but it works just as well and allows other programs to access files.
GoLive’s new site-planning features replace the Web designer’s traditional sketchpad. You can drag objects around a virtual whiteboard and play with different architectural concepts. This tool seems like a toy at first, but when the number of pages gets very large, its value is easy to see. Once you’re satisfied with the results, GoLive creates the site file and pages, ready for you to add text, images, and other page elements.
From this point, you can import a Photoshop file (say, a mockup of your page layout, colors, and graphics) as a tracing layer that lies semitransparently in the background. More than just a guide, the tracing layer allows you to select portions of the underlying graphic and turn them into elements on the page itself. After launching the site, use the Site Report Controller to generate reports that help you fine-tune and monitor it. This extension of GoLive’s excellent search capabilities lets you find files by error, links to and from a particular page, bad titles, last revision, and more.
In redesigning GoLive, Adobe carefully kept or improved the features that made GoLive 4.0 great, while leveraging the Adobe interface and graphics strengths to produce a must-have upgrade. The company has taken a hard look at how Web designers create sites, as well as the everyday problems they face in bringing complex sites online, and has addressed those needs with no-nonsense tools. The best thing about GoLive is that everything makes sense — from the drag-and-drop ease of adding page elements to creating rollover GIFs and adding JavaScript actions from GoLive’s database.
Compared to previous versions, GoLive 5.0 is more stable, produces cleaner and more cooperative code, and implements usable collaborative and site-planning tools that shorten the path from concept to live site. Though it has arrived a little late on the shelf, Adobe GoLive has finally matured into a world-class application. It’s been well worth the wait.
Amanullah, Shahed. (November 2000). GoLive 5.0. MacAddict. (pgs. 64-66).
Adobe Systems, Inc.
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