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Adobe GoLive 6.0

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GoLive has various features that help build a website right from the concept to uploading. When you start working on the site you can make a flowchart like Site Diagram and then publish the same as PDF or SVG for client approval. The same diagram can then be used to generate the Site Map and convert the diagram into live pages for your site. The links that were in the original diagram can also be verified in the Site Map.

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The product can integrate well with other Adobe products. This can be seen once you have made your site’s template and are ready to design it. You can design the page in Photoshop, slice it and bring it into GoLive as a ‘smartobject’ with all the links and slices intact. The individual slices can even be optimized individually here. One very exciting feature of smartobjects is using variables. Creating multiple buttons of the same kind with rollovers is simplified with GoLive. Just create a single button in Photoshop with text. Use the Photoshop file in Golive as a smartobject and it will recognize the text in the image, take it as a variable and you can change the text for the various buttons you want on the page. It even goes a step ahead in creating buttons by the inclusion of smart rollovers. Name your button files as button_main, button_over and button_click. Just define the main image and GoLive will search for the rest of the states itself. 

create visual representations of your website before creating the actual pages

Snapshot
Adobe GoLive 6.0
Price: 
Rs 22943 (estimated street price)
Meant for:
Website designers
Feature:
Smartobjects, smart rollovers, Visual CSS, Works Workgroup Server
Pros:
Better CSS visual interface, close integration with Adobe Photoshop and other Adobe products
Contact:
Adobe Systems, Noida
Tel:
0120-444711
E-mail:
sandeepm@adobe.



com

The CSS (Cascading Style Sheet) interface is more visual and user-friendly as compared to the earlier version. Earlier the user needed to know the style elements to manipulate them. GoLive also boasts of a dynamic content module, which lets you use a Web page with a database source. Just bind the page contents with the database source and the coding is taken care of by GoLive. It is good if you are just a designer and do not want to mess up with the coding aspect of Web designing. 

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Another new feature of GoLive is the Works Workgroup Server. If you have a team of developers and designers working on a website with the content on a server, this workgroup management tool gives you a set of tools to manage the same. The user will need to mount the site once on his local machine and then he can edit the various files on the site. The files when being used by him can be opened only in a read only mode by other users. The workgroup server helps you share, manage and track changes of files easily. With advanced site archiving, versioning facilities the whole site can also be rolled back at any time by the administrator.

The Bottom Line: In a nutshell, while Dreamweaver has more of a programmer-based approach and is recommended for people working on Web services, enterprise systems etc, GoLive is a WYSIWYG for designers, workgroups and site managers.

Geetaj Channana for PCQ Labs

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