Adobe GoLive!

[PaCrappa]

It looks like I'm getting one free Adobe design suite here in the next couple of weeks. While I'm up to speed with Photoshop and Illustrator and can't think of a damn thing to do with InDesign, I haven't the foggiest clue about GoLive. Is it any good? Any recommended reference materials/sites? If I can party with Photoshop will I be able to pick up GoLive relatively easily? Lastly, if GoLive sucks beyond belief, what's the leading bleeding edge wysiwyg web development app?

Thanks for your time and consideration,
PaCrappa

[Gymkata]

I thought this was about Abobo from Double Dragon. I need to slow down a bit.

[Wolffen]

Lastly, if GoLive sucks beyond belief, what's the leading bleeding edge wysiwyg web development app?

Not sure how good GoLive is, but Macromedia Studio MX, specifically the new Studio MX 2004 is sweet. (expensive, but sweet). Dreamweaver gets better and better (that's your wysiwig web tool), Flash 04 has improved capabilities, not the least of which is cutting Flash files in half, filesize-wise, and Fireworks does a lot of what Photoshop does. My web developer here at work has almost stopped using Photoshop for anything other than mockups now. I haven't heard much about Freehand (Macromedia's Illustrator competitor), but if it's improves as much as Dreamweaver has, it's all good. You can download a 30 day trial from Macromedia for any and all of the Studio MX 04 components. I'd at least download Dreamweaver and give it a whirl. You might find you can't do without it.

I thought this was about Abobo from Double Dragon. I need to slow down a bit.

Don't feel bad. I saw 88/Icepick's Galleria thread "I make pictures with your titles." as "I make pictures with your titties."

[Blaine]

I've never even touched GoLive.

*shrug*.

As far as FlashMX, yeah it's well worth an upgrade. Listeners are very nice. They've finally worked out nested movie clips so they work perfectly.

The Drawing API is very hip, though not terribly useful in every day life.

LoadVars is also very very cool.

[PaCrappa]

Thanks for the thoughts, but I'm not getting Macromedia anything. I'm being given this Adobe package as a gift and it comes with GoLive.

Is there anyone out there who has used Adobe's GoLive who would be in a position to comment on any of my earlier questions? If so, what sayeth you?

Thanks in advance,
Pa

[cka]

How do you get Adobe products as gifts? Doesn't everything they make cost like $900?

[Rhydant]

GoLive is 'meh'. i used it for about a year but i just couldnt get into it. i never really could get anything i hand-write to appear right in the preview window, so the program would try to fix it itself. and that didnt do any good. so i do everything in HomeSite. its like Notepad on crack. very usefull, and very free on file-sharing programs.

[PaCrappa]

Bumpy Johnson!

When you live in Seattle (actually, I now live in the boonies but I'm still right close) you're pretty well guaranteed to know people at Microsoft, Nintendo and Adobe. Me getting the creative suite or whatever is a result of the random odds of me living around here and knowing folks at Adobe.

I should also mention that I'll be using this with my Mac and that I have little to no HTML skill. I've never used Homesite nor do I know what it is.

Pa

[bandit]

Never used GoLive, but I would like to. I mainly use PhotoStop, Illustrator, Director, Dreamweaver MX, Flash MX. I should get GoLive and try it out.