The Casualties of CS3: GoLive
Here’s a post I started about the sad end of GoLive now that Macromedia had been absorbed into Adobe. So while cleaning up the blog for the new year I found this old draft lingering around. I thought you all might be interested and could share your thoughts on how you feel about Dreamweaver CS4.
I cut my teeth in web development on GoLive so it was disappointing to me that Dreamweaver and GoLive didn’t come together more holistically. I still feel GoLive’s UI, site management, and drag-drop feature set has always been better than Dreamweaver. Where as Dreamweaver really excelled at responsive code writing and better live preview support. GoLive’s Smart Objects (where the term originated with) was by far more seamless than even the new feature in Dreamweaver CS4 that behaves very similar to Smart Objects. But don’t get me wrong, I used Dreamweaver for about four years before I turned to just using a straight-up code editor. So I know Dreamweaver. But my heart will always go out to GoLive and its cleaner user experience.
Now that Dreamweaver has had a version or two to try and catch up with GoLive in terms of productive features and a more Adobe-like UI. Do you think it’s a better than GoLive ever was? As always leave a comment and let me know. Here’s the short bit I originally started. Not much here but still worth seeing how it started…
Sure, we may be swept up with all the excitement of Adobe Creative Suite 3 on the verge of being released, but let’s not forget some of the applications we might have used in the past. These applications are the victims of the Macromedia merger and what I’ve deemed casualties of CS3. First up, Adobe GoLive.
Andrew Kelsall of Sqwink Design commented on my post, GoLive Rumored to Fully Embrace the Adobe Experience in CS3:
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, now over two years later, we know it was totally true. The strangest part of it all is that Adobe went ahead and released GoLive 9 months after the release of Dreamweaver CS3. And funny enough, the updated UI in GoLive 9 was even more in place with Adobe apps than Dreamweaver CS3. So now GoLive has gone the way of PageMaker. I agree it shares a similar ill-fated life as PageMaker but I still felt it had a lot of things going for it. What’s your take?
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George, check the year on this entry. Little ahead of yourself.
Dan
Thanks for pointing this out. I think it’s a bug in PHP since WordPress says it’s the correct year. Maybe I can just try to republish it tomorrow.
Maybe PHP is suffering from the same bug as the leapyear bug in the 30GB Zunes.