![]() Thus, you can directly modify the source art via GoLive’s interface. ![]() The SmartObjects added in GoLive 5 include tools to link source files to Photoshop, Illustrator, and LiveMotion documents. GoLive integrates actions through a special Actions palette that lets you attach behavior to a mouse click, a key press, and the other standard JavaScript triggers. Previewing works perfectly, and the underlying JavaScript works on both Internet Explorer and Netscape Navigator most of the time.ĭHTML animations can be easily combined with GoLive Actions for creating sophisticated website elements. GoLive uses CSS to create exactly positioned floating boxes, and it still has good support for layout grids, which use tables to stick things in a certain place on a page.ĭHTML support continues to be as easy as point and click, with a dedicated timeline allowing objects to be easily placed and moved. GoLive supports all standard HTML objects and features, including tables, frames, color, font sets, CSS, DHTML, JavaScript, Meta-tags, text formatting, and forms. GoLive can also store stationery templates. The HTML Outline Editor chunks HTML into nested tabs that are useful mostly for troubleshooting. You can also use the new Source Code palette to simultaneously view or edit HTML with the Layout Preview displayed. The HTML Source Editor provides a simple view of the underlying HTML. The Frame Editor lets you drag, drop, and resize frames in a frameset. The Layout Editor shows a rough browser-agnostic preview that’s fully editable. A Document window contains six tabs, each corresponding to a different view of the page. When starting on a page in GoLive, you first bring up a Document window. These tools alone reduce to minutes the time it takes to edit any page containing a table. You can also sort tables by rows, and apply (and capture) repeating designs for headers and cells. This makes it much easier to work with complex tables without spending half your life moving the mouse in tiny increments trying to grab the precise edge of the right cell. Choosing cells, rows, or columns (contiguous or not) in the Table palette selects the corresponding parts of the table on the page. The Table palette, for instance, offers a schematic proxy for selecting table cells. GoLive 5 offers seventeen floating palettes which are very useful during the various phases of site creation. Now, drag this object into the appropriate spot on a page, select it, and you can modify it using the Inspector palette, link to an image, change its dimensions, set its properties, or change its format. You make an object, such as an image or table, and find the icon placeholder for that item in the Object palette. GoLive’s approach is focused on the user’s workflow. The interface is intuitive and easy to use, especially if you have been using other Adobe products. While its launch of the renamed GoLive 4 was little more than a PC update of the existing Mac-only version, major changes in its latest release, GoLive 5, show that Adobe is finally ready to offer competition to Adobe woke up just in time and brought up the well-regarded GoLive CyberStudio. Macromedia promptly filled the gap with its Dreamweaver package. The company’s only Web design offering till recently was PageMill, and that left much to be desired. With packages such as Photoshop, Adobe is the undisputed leader when it comes to traditional graphic design but, unfortunately, it slept through the advent of the Internet. Pros: Excellent workflow features, great for people without coding experienceĬons: Links have to be handled manually limited control over HTML Features: Multiple palettes and views, support for all HTML objects and features, powerful prototyping tool
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