04/28/2008, 1:15am, EDT
Monday, April 28th
Adobe discontinues GoLive, offers cross-grade
Adobe on Monday announced that GoLive website creation tool has been discontinued in favor of Dreamweaver, the popular design tool acquired from Macromedia a little more than three years ago; confirming reports from a almost two years ago (which the company later denied and subsequently promised continued support), Adobe said it has ceased development and sales of the effective Monday, April 28, 2008. However, despite the Macworld report, the software was still available for sale (and as an upgrade) on Adobe's website early Monday morning.
Before Monday's announcement, Adobe had already begun a "switch" campaign for current users with a section of its website dedicated to gently "pushing" users away from its recently launched GoLive product toward Dreamweaver.
"Before purchasing Adobe GoLive 9 software, consider Adobe Dreamweaver CS3, the market-leading tool to design, develop, and maintain websites and web applications," the company's "switch" website reads. "Part of Adobe Creative Suite 3 software, Dreamweaver CS3 offers a visual layout interface, a streamlined coding environment, and intelligent integration with related Adobe software. Free tools and support are also available to help ease your transition from GoLive to Dreamweaver."
Although the company launched GoLive 9 last summer with visual CSS and site management features, Adobe said that the line had blurred between GoLive and DreamWeaver, forcing to the company to choose one the "better fit" product for its customer base.
“GoLive helped creative professionals to support what was then a new market trend,” GoLive product manager Devin Fernandez told the publication. “That is, design moving to the Web. Even after GoLive 9 came out people were drawn to Dreamweaver...especially around features and support for technology like AJAX and CSS Starter Points. Dreamweaver also supports dynamic content, while GoLive doesn’t."
Adobe promised that will continue to support GoLive users with online tutorials and migration assistance; it also offering a $200 upgrade for registered GoLive users to switch to Dreamweaver; however, the details were not available early Monday morning.
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I seriously don't think that the product should be bought by anyone. Rather Adobe should try to merge the good bits into Dreamweaver and actually close the book. Why keep dragging a old soldier without the arms.
Adobe Golive is dead...
I owned both GoLive and Dreamweaver. I also owned Freehand and Illustrator. While Golive was a good product, it continued to lose market share to Dreamweaver. Freehand was dying a slow death, it was buggy and Macromedia has diverted resources away from it.
As a Macromedia and Adobe stockholder as well as users of both lines of products, this was a fantastic merger. Adobe has killed the correct products, and focused development on the better products.
It has dumped more resources at Flash, and standardized workflows.
Moving away from GoLive to Dreamweaver or Freehand to Illustrator takes a bit of effort, but it is not that difficult.
As for Bush being the root-of-all-evil, and ruining your life. I think you need to stop looking for excuses and start relying on yourself to get things done.
First - you really should get out of CS1 and upgrade_
DW has had built in FTP since at least UltraDev 4_
It's had a layout Grid since at least version 3_
It started out as an HTML Editor - so yeah - DUH!! It has a Code View and it can be color coded to seperate out different Tags_
I'm not sure what the hell a "pick whip" is....but all you hvae to do is select and image [graphic] you want and then apply a Link to it and it becomes a "button"_ There is also Image Mapping capability - where you can set multiple links to a single graphic_
ImageReady is Dead_ It was a crappy product to begin with_ And Everything that it did was a part of Photoshop for years and now has been re-integrated back into PS_
As far as the rollovers go - setting them up in an image processor and not an HTML App is just stupid_ Either pull your graphics into Fireworks or Dreamweaver and set the Rollovers there_ So to answer your question - Yes it has Rollover setup and doesn't have to be reworked unless you break the link to the images_
Are you still using PageMaker too?
And at least thru CS it was more overly complicated to use than the rest of the Adobe Product Line_ It never had the Adobe integrated interface that InDesign and Illustrator and Photoshop shared_ Keyboard Commands - functions and interactivity were different than the rest_ It was bloated and Adobe never made an effort to clean it up_
GoLive is, by no means a perfect product. It's slow, it's buggy, it crashes, and the interface has never been fully Adobe-ized. That said, it's 100% better than Dreamweaver. There has long been a split between Freehand and Illustrator and that has a lot to do with the UI paradigm. Same goes for GL and DW. DW's UI paradigms are just awful as far as I am concerned.
Of course, looks like I'm beating a dead horse here... It's just too bad that the wrong horse has been killed.