Go-Live Vs Dreamweaver

Tommyttt · Feb 19th, 2008, 17:43

Hallo all!

What is better Golive or Dreamweaver?

I know that Golive is more orientated towards the designer, with the nice touchs such as drag and drop.

However does the automation of tasks restrict your capabilities in golive?

Also can you design a login function in golive? do you use the forms buttons? is something todo with PHP?

Thanks

Peace

Tommy tooooT

Jack Franklin · Feb 19th, 2008, 17:46

Moved to Design & Development Software

To be honest, I have never used GoLive, but Dreamweaver is pretty much almost 100% the industry standard.

aso186 · Feb 19th, 2008, 17:48

I would also guess that since acquiring Dreamweaver, Adobe are trying to phase out GoLive.

In which case, like Jack says, stick with Dreamweaver for the long term.

Jack Franklin · Feb 19th, 2008, 18:05

Just a quick hint - If you can find DreamWeaver 8 and it's a lot cheaper than Dreamweaver CS3, go with it. I personally find the differences between DW8 & CS3 very little. (I have DW8 here but have used CS3 whilst on Work Experience. I noticed very very little difference - although if you have Fireworks CS3, Photoshop CS3, and everything CS3, the integration bit is handy sometimes).

unitedcraig · Feb 19th, 2008, 20:35

If you have cash to spare then i would get a CS3 package, but, if you are the average user and not the son of either a millionaire or an adobe employer

, then i would do as jack says, get hold of version 8.

I have got CS3 at home, (not rich id just like to add, just have good friends

), and use 8 at college, CS3 is obviously shineyer etc, but if i were choosing i would 100% go for 8, much better value for money.

What is it you are going to be using it for?

Tommyttt · Feb 20th, 2008, 06:59

Thanks for all your responses!!

I have both packages, on CS2.

My question is really based around capabilities, I plan to create a ecommerce site.

I suppose if there are any problems with go-live you can import the site into dreamweaver and edit that way.

But dreamweaver drives me nuts sometimes.

danny322 · Feb 20th, 2008, 08:20

bloody hell i still use dreamweaver MX at work, tight buggers lol. You dont even get the dropdown lists on your css pages for example, u type background-colour: it doesnt display the colour picker.

I have CS3 at home, i come to work and have to use MX!!!

crackafaza · Feb 20th, 2008, 10:02

As I am a dreamweaver cs3 user, can I ask!

What is Go-Live? because I have never heard about it before?

Cracka

aso186 · Feb 20th, 2008, 11:28

Adobe GoLive is (was) basically Macromedia's 'Dreamweaver' alternative.

Of course, since Adobe acquired Macromedia, and since Dreamweaver was considered the standard, Adobe fully adopted Dreamweaver and it seems are now starting to phase out GoLive.

crackafaza · Feb 20th, 2008, 13:34

Oh Right

Thanks for that information Aso186

So, Stick with dreamweaver would be the best solution then yes?

aso186 · Feb 20th, 2008, 14:29

Since you're already a user, then yes!

Tommyttt · Feb 20th, 2008, 16:20

Hmm, well not really the answer I was looking for.....but nice to chat anyways

Yer Go-Live is :

software allows both web professionals and graphic designers to visually create sophisticated, CSS-based content. Design graphics in other Adobe applications and bring them to the web with ease, using familiar tools and concepts.

didnt know that it was discontinued.....oh well

Its a nice piece of software, easy to use, well for me