Adobe Golive 5.

GoLive 5 sees major improvements from site prototyping and intelligent image handling through to dynamic data and extensibility but Dreamweaver still retains its edge.

With advanced packages such as the latest Photoshop, Adobe is the leading software developer when it comes to traditional graphic design - but it was caught napping by the advent of the Internet. For a long time the company’s only Web offering was the underpowered PageMill which allowed Macromedia to fill the gap with its Dreamweaver package. Adobe saw the light just in time and bought up the well-regarded GoLive CyberStudio. Last year’s launch of the renamed GoLive 4 was little more than a PC update of the existing Mac-only version, but the major changes in this latest release show just how determined Adobe is to put right its mistake and to seize the high ground in Web design.
This is immediately apparent in GoLive’s revamped interface which has been given an Adobe-style makeover. Many of these changes are welcome such as the more consistent menus, customisable keyboard shortcuts and comprehensive context menus, but other improvements are more debatable. In particular where version 4 made do with just six floating palettes, there are now seventeen! The power made available is impressive but so is the potential for confusion especially as some palettes, such as the Objects and Colour palettes, offer up to nine tabs while the Site window now offers ten! At least palettes can now be grouped together and docked to each other, but even so your working environment can soon become unworkable. Adobe’s bizarre solution to this is the Reset Palettes command which deliberately piles all palettes on top of each other in the middle of the screen! The sooner the GoLive interface is given a Photoshop 6-style rationalization the better.

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