What is GoLive CyberStudio 3?

It’s ironic that the company that brings us CyberStudio 3.0 is named Golive, because we sure aren’t going anywhere now that we’re glued to our Macs, cranking out killer Web sites by the bucket. This massive upgrade adds a slew of features to this robust Web-pubhshing tool that meet most of the needs of Web pros.

Golive has labeled this upgrade the Professional Edition for a reason. The manual totals a whopping 843 pages (including a WebObjects addendum); learning how to use all of CyberStudio’s features isn’t for the faint of heart. To complete even basic tasks, you need to become familiar with how this application works. CyberStudio presents many of its tools in palettes, which necessitates not only a huge monitor but also the ability to grasp the icon-driven process of building Web pages.

CyberStudio 3.0 offers three ways to create and edit Web pages: WYSIWYG layout mode, tag-outline mode, and regular text-source mode. GoLive has improved the source editor for those Luddites out there by supporting grep search and replace functions, HTML syntax and compatibility checking based on a number of different browsers, and line numbering.

The WYSIWYG layout editor has been enhanced as well. Finally you can select multiple objects. You can import tab-delimited ASCII files as tables. Object alignment is possible. And, thankfully, you can select multiple table cells and modify them as a group. One major enhancement is the inclusion of master objects, which allow you to edit the common elements of a site — say, a navigation bar — in one place and update them across the entire site. All these features have been high on user request lists since version 1.0, and we’re delighted to see them in this upgrade.

Now the fun begins: CyberStudio 3.0 allows Web designers to create and edit WYSIWYG Cascading Style Sheets and Dynamic HTML. These advanced features, which 4.0 browsers support, allow you to animate your pages and to control design elements such as placement and typography. While these features still do not enjoy universal support on the Web, CyberStudio helps you tackle the arcane scripting with a minimum of fuss. Premade JavaScript actions round out CyberStudio’s advanced feature set.

Golive has completely overhauled CyberStudio’s site-management tools. Previous versions used a confusing system of abases to files on the hard drive. This upgrade references your hard drive directly, so you can check links and view your site’s hierarchy with ease. Version 3.0 also does away with the old Projects window. Instead, it places common elements of a site into the more sensible Site window. CyberStudio 30. also allows incremental page and site uploads to your servers.

The 3.0 upgrade to GoLive’s CyberStudio extends the original’s powers significantly, improving on old features and adding new ones for today’s Web technologies. While it’s not the easiest tool to use, it is one of the most feature rich. Given the complexity of the Web as it exists today, designers will very likely rely on CyberStudio as a mainstay in their site-budding processes.

Love, Scott. (August 1998). GoLive CyberStudio 3.0. MacAddict. (pg. 48).

Download GoLive CyberStudio 3 for Mac

Architecture

IBM PowerPC

System Requirements

From Mac OS 8.0

Compatibility notes

Minimum Requirements

• PowerPC processor
• 16 MB RAM available
• 30 MB hard disk available
• Mac OS 8.0

Emulating this? It could probably run under: SheepShaver