And make sure you don’t use features like GoLive’s layout grids, which use proprietary code to work their magic. Ĭan you make GoLive produce compliant pages? Sure – you just have to manually create a page that passes the validation test, save it as stationery, and tell GoLive to use the stationery for each new file. Yet pages created with GoLive 5 don’t pass the HTML 4.01 validation test at. Compliance makes pages display predictably across computing platforms and makes them more readily accessible by people with disabilities.
There’s no excuse for a professional Web production tool not to create standards-compliant HTML. You can apply color and text styles to the map, and you can save your own styles for reuse. You select cells, rows, or columns by clicking on a miniature map of the table in the palette. The new Table palette is another time-saver. View from a Height – One of GoLive 5’s many site-management improvements is the addition of multiple panes to the site view window. If you resize a smart object, it’s automatically reoptimized – a big time-saver. GoLive also lets you take files from three of Adobe’s other products (Photoshop, LiveMotion, and Illustrator 9) and place them as ‘smart objects.’ Double-clicking on a smart object opens the file in the source application, and changes in the source cause the copy of the file in the Web page to be updated. You can now import native Photoshop files and make each Photoshop layer a GoLive floating box you can even apply different optimization settings for each layer as it’s being imported. GoLive now has Photoshop’s Save For Web image optimizer built in, so you can prepare your graphics for the Web without leaving the program. For example, Dreamweaver introduced the concept of putting an image layer in the background of a document to use as a guide Adobe takes that idea a step further by letting you cut out parts of that tracing image and turn them into floating boxes (dynamic HTML elements) that become part of your Web page. In other cases, GoLive has taken a good Dreamweaver feature and made it much better. It’s clear that some of Adobe GoLive’s new features, such as 360Code, are intended to help the program play catch-up with Macromedia Inc.’s Dreamweaver 3. Also welcome is the ability to view the layout and the page’s source code simultaneously in separate windows. Particularly welcome is 360Code, a tool that lets you create code in GoLive, tweak it in another editor, and return it to GoLive without having the program rewrite your source code.
Yet the devil is in the details, and some troubling particulars with this upgrade may cause you to pause when reaching for your checkbook.Īs expected, GoLive 5 offers a slew of new features. The qualities that have attracted legions of Web designers, such as a powerful design environment and excellent site-management features, have been strengthened integration with Adobe’s other world-class tools, including Photoshop, helps GoLive handle almost any Web chore with aplomb. That’s just what you get with Adobe Systems Inc.’s GoLive 5 for the Macintosh. () – Once an application reaches version 5, you expect it to be strong and capable, with no rough edges.
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