Product Description

Adobe GoLive CS2 helps you unlock the power of CSS, with intuitive visual tools that build more sophisticated sites. Take your ideas to new places with powerful mobile authoring tools based on CSS/XHTML, SVG Tiny, SMIL, and other global standards. Jump-start your designs by easily converting Adobe InDesign layouts into Web pages. Design Web and mobile content in an advanced, standards-based coding environment. Gain the freedom and flexibility of building on open standards, while leveraging your existing Adobe assets through tight integration with the other Adobe Creative Suite components. Transfer InDesign assets to GoLive with drag-and-drop ease Automated favicon creation through the simple interface Track team-based projects using popular collaborative asset management tools like Perforce, CVS, or Version Cue

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #8111 in Software
• Brand: Adobe
• Model: 23200455
• Released on: 2005-04-28
• Platforms: Windows 2000, Windows XP
• Format: CD-ROM
• Original language: English
• Dimensions: 4.00 pounds

Features

• Author and validate standards-compliant CSS content for mobile devices, using simple visual tools
• Develop for mobile using global industry standards - features a complete development environment for CSS, XHTML, SVG Tiny, SMIL, MPEG-4, and more
• View SVG-t content in split-view interfaces, for quicker development of mobile applications
• Track and manage everything in your site, from assets to links, uploading content using Secure FTP and WebDAV via SSH or SSL
• Open Developer Mode for accessing GoLive site management features in a more comfortable, code-only mode

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With GoLive CS2, you have the power of an easy-to-use WYSIWYG (what you see is what you get) Web design tool that is compatible with the latest Web standards. Take full advantage of CSS and take your ideas to new places with powerful mobile authoring tools based on CSS/XHTML, SVG Tiny, SMIL, and other global standards.

View changes to mobile and Web content in real-time with GoLive CS2's advanced live rendering engine.

Visualize It
With GoLive CS2's enhanced live rendering engine, you can preview changes to Web and mobile content in real-time. Use this feature to view your ideas quickly and effortlessly via an Opera browser-based environment that supports Small-Screen Rendering (SSR). With this version of GoLive you can also quickly harness the power of CSS with CSS prebuilt block objects. Drag and drop prebuilt CSS elements, such as a three-column layout with fixed right and left columns and a liquid center, to quickly build standards-compliant CSS pages that you populate with text and images. Plus, you can use a visual CSS layout window to create standards-compliant code that renders faithfully on mobile devices and Web browsers. Or, code by hand and verify syntax easily. Meanwhile, you can select and manipulate CSS DIVs or their content more easily and efficiently than ever before.

GoLive CS2 also boasts tight integration with Adobe InDesign CS2--Adobe's newest version of its leading print production software--so you can share designs across your print and Web-based projects. Transfer InDesign assets to GoLive with drag-and-drop ease, open an InDesign package in GoLive and export to XHTML to jump-start your site, or flow tagged InDesign content into CSS templates. You can also choose which InDesign page elements you want to import into a GoLive Web project. Plus, you can hide or show content organized on layers in an InDesign package, such as alternative layouts or localized versions of pages. GoLive also offers warnings for automatic page creation so you can detect errors and problems that arise during your use of InDesign with GoLive.

Share designs across your print and Web-based projects; GoLive CS2 is tightly integrated with Adobe InDesign CS2.

Develop Your Own Way
If you like to get down and dirty with your coding, GoLive is built for you, too. You can open GoLive in a comfortable, code-only mode that is great for developers who still want access to GoLive's site management features, but don't need the visual layout tools. And if you like a little of both, there's also a split view mode for CSS development that allows you to view source code side by side with either a visual CSS layout window or a large real-time rendering window. Because GoLive is built to keep you in tune with the latest Web standards, it offers batch conversion from HTML to XHTML, allowing you to transform, in one fell swoop, existing HTML Web pages and sites into more flexible, standards-compliant XHTML Web pages and sites. If you're a real whiz, GoLive CS2 ships with an enhanced SDK for application development that lets you easily extend the capabilities of GoLive using an XML and ECMAScript-based environment.

Managing and updating your site has never been easier with this version of GoLive. Secure WebDAV and secure FTP clients are built-in, both with support for SSH and SSL connections. Easily upload, update, and manage all your files on a server using these state-of-the art security protocols. Meanwhile, GoLive CS2's collaborative asset management tools allow you to track your team-based projects using popular content versioning systems like Perforce, CVS, or Version Cue. Or, you can use Local/Network File System Directory Versioning.

Easily author and validate standards-compliant CSS content for mobile devices using simple visual tools.

Go Mobile
Designing for the mobile Internet and mobile clients can be challenging due to a multitude of formats and platforms. Fortunately, GoLive CS2 eases the burden with a number of tools that will maintain your sites' compatibility across a broad range of standards. At the top of the list are new mobile CSS features such as visual CSS authoring for mobile devices. Now you can easily author and validate standards-compliant CSS content for mobile devices using simple visual tools. You can also take advantage of Web-based project conversion from existing table-based Web sites to a mobile CSS layout. Plus, you can query and validate CSS Levels 1 and 2 and mobile profiles with meaningful feedback that helps you achieve standards compliance.

GoLive CS2 boasts a number of other built-in tools to help you develop for the latest mobile devices. First, MPEG-4/3GPP interactive video development tools allow you to optimize video output. You can also add interactivity with mobile video editing tools that support MPEG-4 and 3GPP standards. Next, Visual MMS authoring and batch MMS conversion tools give you a complete and intuitive interface to create Multimedia Messaging Service templates for slide shows and text messages. Meanwhile, you can quickly batch convert MMS content for deployment on leading mobile devices. There's also a Six Apart TypePad and Movable Type authoring environment for adding mobile blogging capabilites to your sites, as well as visual authoring tools for NTT DoCoMo i-mode iconography, and SVG-t and SMIL-based content. Lastly, GoLive CS2 ships with onboard phone skins and device emulation so you can view your sites as they would appear in standards-based mobile browsers and visually emulate how your MMS documents will render on mobile devices from Sony Ericsson and Nokia.

Customer Reviews

Don't put ANY money into ANY version on ANY platform of GoLive!
GoLive CS2 gets ZERO stars. Having worked with GoLive since 2003 on Macintosh, in February 2007 I upgraded to CS2 -- piece of crapola -- big mistake. "1 star" is one too many!

GoLive used to be a nice program. Whether you are an old user or thinking of getting it anew, don't. I regret upgrading to GoLive CS2 -- and Adobe won't make it right granting suckers like me a $200 upgrade to Dreamweaver (vs. $400). Adobe offers GoLive 9 via their website, but don't fall for it. Adobe is phasing out GoLive. Shame on Adobe! If I had any choice, I'd dump Adobe in a second, but Dreamweaver is the only game in town for Macintosh. Adobe, because you've abandoned your GoLive users: you s_ck! Talk about greed.

Summary: If you buy any GoLive version on any platform, you're throwing your money away. Don't make my mistake. I am out the cost of GoLive CS2 ($180) plus another $200 in GoLive CS2 how-to books. Am I bitter? You betcha.

Adobe isn't trying very hard with this product
I'm an amateur at web design/building, so if I've found several quirks and bugs, imagine what the REAL developers experience. The good news: GoLive CS2 is loaded with features and contains what most people would need to create and manage the content of their websites. The bad news: where should I begin. I'll just name a few. 1) The program generates several "Windows" errors EVERY TIME it closes. Basically, it crashes on exit. I've contacted Adobe directly - they blame Microsoft for something THEY do incorrectly in their OS. Funny, none of the other programs I've ever worked with crash everytime I close them. Somehow only Adobe suffers this so-called Microsoft bug. Perusing the GoLive forums reveal that many (if not most) people experience this same, unfixed, problem. Adobe seems to be doing nothing about it. 2) It's also crashed many times WHILE using it. 3) When you do any file transfers to/from your website, the rest of the program is off-limits. You can't use it. In other words, it's single-tasking. 4) Seriously FAT code. The first time I launch GoLive CS2 after boot-up is the time I get that cup of coffee. Literally, 1-to-2 minutes before it's usable - on a FAST computer. I think Dreamweaver being updated to CS3 first is a forecast for the beginning of the end of GoLive. They are talking about a new version, but why wait? I switched to Dreamweaver 8 and the world is a better place! :)

Worst Web-editing software available
First of all, this product is unbelievably bloated, it takes literally minutes to come up. That wouldn't be so bad if it was a decent product, but it's quite the opposite. Numerous bugs, frequent crashes and non-intuite UI are enough to drive anyone insane. IF you for some reason decide to use this,
there's one piece of advice for you: save your work every 2 minutes. I've lost work on numerous occasions when the application just crashes or freezes.
The quality of this is below the of level of some free products that are available out there.