Digital Home Thoughts: Adobe's Creative Suite 2 Premium Reviewed

GoLive Outside The Box
If you are going to produce print media, then you should be using the same branding on your website (or vice versa). And with Adobe GoLive (Figure 25), you can do this and more. With the included toolset (Figure 26), you can not only create, but also manage your site.


Figure 25: GoLive gives you the capabilities to take your Adobe projects to the web.


Figure 26: The tools you need to manage a site (such as layout, site mapping, ftp, etc.) are included within GoLive.

As with InDesign, the close integration with Adobe Bridge allows one to quickly replace graphics in templates, or even drop in your InDesign elements (Figure 27). Double-clicking these elements allows you to open them in their originating application (and have them update the site in return).


Figure 27: As with InDesign, the integration with Adobe Bridge allows for quick and easy element replacement.

If you decide to change the font, and you are creating (or editing) a CSS-based site, just make your change inside the CSS editor (Figure 28), and the results are propagated throughout the rest of the project.


Figure 28: Using the CSS editing capabilities, you can modify the entire site or just specific sections.

Then, using Live Render, you can test your content for various web browsers, operating systems, and even small format screens (such as cellphones).


Figure 29: You can even test your content for the very small screen (such as a cellphone).

GoLive certainly has a lot of potential. But at this point, I still prefer my prior application, Dreamweaver. Although, as with Photoshop, I think that as I became more familiar with the layout and tools of GoLive, I might be more apt to keep using it, if for nothing else but the great integration. I did crash GoLive a few times, and without it giving me any sort of error beforehand. When I returned to the project I was working on - guess what, the changes were lost.