Think Secret is reporting that they’ve been tipped off on the future development of Adobe GoLive. Not only is it interesting to consider that GoLive will continue to live on in the Creative Suite but I like the idea of GoLive being targeted more to traditional designers and Dreamweaver more to professional Web designers. If you’ve used both of these Web design applications, you’ll probably agree that targeting the two in this manner makes a lot of sense — at least to me it does.
The Think Secret article goes on to report that Adobe is expected to have GoLive CS3 fully embrace the Adobe experience with much more consistent control palettes we’ve grown so fond of in the other Creative Suite applications. I’ve dreamt of a GoLive that was more like Illustrator and InDesign and less like GoLive CyberStudio ever since the news broke out of Adobe acquiring the company GoLive. Now it sounds like the dream may finally come true.
Be sure to read the entire Think Secret article for more: Adobe targeting traditional designers with GoLive CS3. And please feel free to comment on this post with what you think of this rumored strategy of targeting the two Web design tools for two types of professionals.
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I’ve just looked at the Think Secret report just before I read this article. However, it’s now 2007 and I can’t see GoLive CS3 coming out at all. If not, I will be very disappointed as It’s taken me a while to learn. I’ve been hearing rumors for a while now that Dreamweaver is totally replacing Golive…is this true?
Well Andrew, considering it can’t be found anywhere on the new roster of CS3 offerings, I’d have to say we shouldn’t expect the best for GoLive. My guess now is they give GoLive much the same treatment they’ve given PageMaker once InDesign arrived on the scene. Meaning that they will still offer it for sale and may do updates to it but it will not be officially considered part of the Creative Suite anymore. PageMaker, which was once marketed “the” page-layout tool, is now deemed the page layout tool for business users.
Dreamweaver isn’t all that bad. The UI is the thing that got to me the most and sadly it looks like the team didn’t get around to updating Dreamweaver CS3 with the new Adobe UI found in everything else in CS3 (except for Fireworks). Dreamweaver definitely feels faster and more powerful than GoLive. I know I’m going to miss GoLive’s Smart Objects (I do already). But I think Adobe made a critical bad decision not overhauling Dreamweaver’s UI to feel more like an Adobe application. How else are you going to win the hearts and minds of longtime Adobe GoLive users if they’re forced to use this very anti-Adobe UI? This just when GoLive was really starting to look and feel like the other Adobe applications in the suite.
Although it may be still too soon to tell, GoLive might be one of the major casualties from the Macromedia merger — much like FreeHand seems to be. But FreeHand didn’t seem to be getting much love from Macromedia in a while, anyways. I couldn’t even get it to successfully run on my Intel-based Mac.
I guess we can say GoLive may eventually come out though, since I did spy it on the new elemental, icon wheel that was released a couple of months ago.
Thanks for the reply. I agree with your opinions on the Dreamweaver interface not matching the Golive UI - that’s one of the things that will hinder the changeover in my case. I’ve figured now that I’ll still use Golive until the release of CS4. Then hopefully a more integrated TRUE Adobe Dreamweaver may make an appearance.