Adobe Golive 5.0 Upgrade

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Summary: Much Too Unstable for Serious Web Developers
Review: GoLoive is a great idea, unfortunately this application is not stable enough and has way too many bugs for serious WebDevelopers. Try running it along side Photoshop and you will find your system slowly run out of resources and crash. It completely defeats the purpose of the tight integration between Adobe apps because you can't run more than two at a time with out taking down your system.

There are so many bugs in this app, it is surprising that it made it to retail. Adobe needs to improve it's software testing. It has also been over 9 months and Adobe has made no effort to release a patch for the numerous bugs, poor use of system resources and severe memory leaks.

If you are a Web Designer that spends 8-12 hours a day in front of your computer like me, expect to reboot at least 3 or 4 times through out the day. And, if you do purchase GoLive. SAVE WITH EVERY CHANGE YOU MAKE TO A PAGE OR YOU WILL BE SORRY!!!!!

We have installed this on over 20 graphics workstations, with plenty of RAM and resources, in eight different companies where they do serious Web development work. Not using it for 2 hours every few days on a personal page, serious 10-12 hours of continuos use work and it is a nightmare. We will not make that mistake again. ...

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Summary: Give a little Get a lot!
Review: I've been using Adobe Go Live for some time now and I have to say it's the best tool I've ever used for designing web sites. If you've used Adobe products before then you'll be right at home. I've tried Deamweaver but I just don't like it as much as Go Live. If you want your web site to look professional and really stand out then this product is for you. There are various books on the market that you can pick up which will simplify things a bit more then the manual that comes with the program. Read thereview on CNET I think it's really fair. Just read your manual and before you know it everything will fall in place.

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Summary: Think twice before upgrading!!!
Review: If you have been using GoLive version 4 and are upgrading to version 5 because 4 was so unstable, watch out for version 5! You may first want to check the Adobe User to User Forum for GoLive on Adobe's WebSite and look at all of the problems people are having before purchasing this product. This could be a great Web Development tool, however, lack of stability and numerous bugs make this product the equivalent of driving a luxury sports car with no brakes.

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Summary: Great Idea Without The Programming Talent to Pull It Off!
Review: It has been 10 months since GoLive 5 was released with many bugs, oversights and memory/resource problems. Adobe has decided that, unlike Photoshop, Illustrator, LiveMotion and many of the other Adobe applications, GoLive 5, although the most unstable of all of the Adobe product line, does not warrant a dot release. Adobe must view this as a perfect application or they have no real control over the development team at the company that they purchased GoLive from.

Besides the fact that this application will crash often when run along other Adobe apps in a heavy production environment, there are also many annoying bugs and oversights that, while on they’re own maybe seem minor, together they make GoLive a hair pulling, nail biting, desk pounding nightmare to use in a production environment on a project deadline.

A few of the things you will have to deal with when using GoLive are:

Application Problems - Frequent crashes and display problems due to poor memory and resource usage. Be prepared to restart your system many times during the day and cleaning up the many Backup files that GoLive leaves behind when it crashes.

Color Palette Annoyances – Again, minor until you combine them with the other problems. The RGB palette does not lock into WebSafe colors. (unusual for a Web Development Tool). So, since you can’t rely on the sliders you have to type in the values. When you type in the first value and hit TAB to move onto the next RGB value, the cursor disappears. Where it goes, I have no idea. Hit the tab key again, and it comes back. You have to do this little double tap dance every time you enter color values by hand.

Template Problems – GoLive has Stationaries in place of templates. The problem is that the stationary files link things differently than the rest of the site, so in many cases the stationary file shows the broken link icon next to the file name in the Site Window. I spent hours trying to figure out what was broken, only to find out it was GoLive. Also if you accidentally open your Stationary File in Preview mode and save, it looses it’s links to everything on the page including images. You have to click over to Layout View, let it break and close it without saving. Then you reopen it again it layout view. Make sure you close it in layout view when your done or you will have the same problem next time.

Extended Character Problems – This will be the last one in my review because I could go on ALL DAY!!! Add a special character to your page by hitting ALT plus the number of the special character and the character appears. Switch to preview mode and go back to Layout and you will find a blue box with a question mark has replaced your special character. View it in a Browser and you will see something like &149; in your WebPage text. You have to go into source code and fix the character manually. Then GoLive and browsers will preview correctly, but GoLive will show a blank box in layout view. (There is a very long workaround to this problem,… very long!!!)

GoLive would be a great application if it worked. Unfortunately, it does not.No Thanks!

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Summary: Golive quirky but powerful
Review: It's true that this program is somewhat limited by bugs that can limit its usability. Once these are learned, however, they can easily be worked around without adversely affecting productivity and with minimal affect on efficiency. Golive is a super tool, far ahead of comparable programs and should be considered regardless of several minor drawbacks.