Why Go Live?
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- gcabral
Why use Go Live over Dreamwearver?
I'm thinking of making the switch to Go Live.
- unknown0
The important question is: why are you switching?
- lemon7140
stay with dreamweaver they both write unnecessary shit but golive is far worse on that end
- bhawk0
I agree with lemon. The code for go live sucks. DW is way better. And to orginze files and FTP it takes the cake. I tried using Go live for a day and it was to complicated. And didn't real offer anything better then DW.
- JazX0
you can also hand code and use Front Page, depends on what you are doing. Stick with Dreamweaver.
- luke0
i go with the rest - stick do DW and if you have at least some html skills do yuor changes by hand after dreamweaver did the bricks!
- Xentic0
When I made my first website I was using GoLive... That's about 4 or 5 years ago and I knew the k10k guys were using it too :) So I thought it would be okay. I've been using for a few years and I thought it was pretty good.
I handcode the most of the things now and when I need a wysiwyg I use both Dreamweaver and GoLive... As long as you don't use the build in actions (javascripts and stuff) the code stays okay....
- unfittoprint0
Stay with that Dream Weed, err.. DreamWeaver.
- unknown0
Another reason.... it is bundled with homesite i think has a homesite option to code in ... in dreamweaver....
that alone is worth it
- Geith0
I love GoLive, but I usually hand-edit the code.
- 187LockDown0
OK OK OK HOLD THE F ON!
Dreamweaver MX is the only way to go assmunch. Im very dissapointed in you. Buy this book:
DreamweaverMX
The Complete Reference.By Tom Muck & Ray West
DWMX is extensible. It has great FTP capabilities, Search Find & Replace coulcd not be better. It writes ASP, PHP, ColdFusion, ASP.NET, JSP!
You must be frigging insane or just not educated on the matter. I pray for your pitty ass soul, do not switthc or I will hunt you down and cut off your ballls!
- reluct0
The only reason I sometimes use Dreamweaver is for the built in rollover and popup scripts.
Tables and stylesheets are cleaner and more intuitive in Golive imo.
If you edit your stylesheet classes in your page a couple of times in Dreamweaver you'll end up with multiple garbled tags.
- gcabral0
wow.. that is very threatening lock.. hahaha
i just got Go Live... the swith will be made shortly...
get the knife
- stormzealot0
i've used GoLive for 3 years now.
I love it.the very fact that i can sit down and have powerful PHP and CSS tools right at my fingertips that are easy to use is great.
but what really takes the cake is PSD implementation. i can build a layout in photoshop go to image ready make a couple wuck rollovers, and import the entire PSD into an anchorpoint on the Golive layout, whatever frame or table i want it in...
then presto chango the website is basically therei've used Dreamweaver at school for 2 years now. it's nice, ok sure but in my oppinion it just isn't as poweful as GoLive.
The reason why DW has more market share is because it is graphical web editor taught at most schools for the simple fact that it is a good app, and its dirt cheap for schools. thus everyone learns it and uses it.
this doesnt mean that it is better.
in my humble oppinion i'd take GoLive ANYDAY
- unknown0
ummm storm zealot, if you came out from behind go live enough you'd know that macromedia pretty much invented the whole make an image and slice it up and add some rollovers thing. Fireworks and dreamweaver have been doing that since i've been using em (back since about 2.0). At that point Image Ready wasn't even being talked about. MX studio is all the functionality you could ever need/want. It has helpful code clues for ASP,PHP,.NET,JSP, and java. I do admit they need to work on the css stuff though. NOTHING beats dreamweaver.... nothing
- Dolan0
Learn HTML. Go Live is the worst piece of shit ever invented. It breaks code just opening it. If you ever get in a position where you have to open someone else's HTML, Go Live is a nightmare. Go Homesite/DW or BBEdit and learn how HTML really works, not just how to run an app.
- stormzealot0
i used to hard code everything i do.
if i have problems with GoLive's code i fix it.
but generally i dont.GoLive not only offers help with PHP but has an entire engine for it along with the CSS, and when u r running high content management ecommerce sites like i am u have to have those.
and ok YES DW worx grand with Fireworx, but i don't care what people say, Photoshop will always do a better job in my oppinion, and GoLive out classes DreamWeaver 5 to none when it comes to photoshop integration.
- 187LockDown0
Please some one back me up on the DW tip. Go Live is the biggest piece of shit.
- corin0
I've never used GoLive but I've always been interested in it. DW is constantly a dissapointment, its interface is awful to use, its workflow is yukky, why do I 'have' to define a site before i make it. WHat if i only want to make somehting that is three pages full, why do i need to go through that nonsense, and why can't i do it afterwards without getting all those silly warnings. Why is the CSS functionality laid out in the most long winded fashion possible, and whoever said that macromedia invented the image slicing - rollover concept (i'm dubious but i don't know) well good on them, i'm glad they came up with such a wondeful idea, but they excuted it with such superb crapness that they deserved to get steamrolled by adobe and imageready. Everyone knows that IR is pretty crappy when standing against photoshop (batch processing aside) but IR looks damn good when u put it alongside fireworks. Adobe just seem to have a better grasp on interface design than macromedia do. Of course it doesn;t help when adobe keep trying to sue them for copying their interfaces:)... anyway rants aside, keep this thread coming, I really want a good wsywig HTML editor, but at the moment i lean more towards topStyle and realistically I do almost everything in notepad.