Adobe discontinues GoLive “Adobe has discontinued sales and development of its Web design software GoLive in favor of Dreamweaver, which it acquired as part of its Macromedia purchase.
(Via MacCentral.)
As I’ve said before, don’t count any application in or out in Adobe’s eyes if they have a competing product offering. But back in March 2006, Adobe did say they plan to continue to support GoLive and FreeHand. Continuing to support and continuing development are two very different things.
I’ll miss the web development application that I cut my teeth on. I remember GoLive when it was GoLive CyberStudio. I just threw out all those manuals last year. Sure, Dreamweaver had a lot more features when it came to coding but GoLive definitely had a more accessible interface and visual design tools. R.I.P. GoLive. You helped me a lot back in the day.
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MacNN | GoLive 9 ships: visual CSS, site management Adobe has announced immediate availability of GoLive 9, the latest edition of the WYSIWYG Web site creator/editor, Primary improvements come in the areas of interface refinement, integration with other CS3 applications, adherence to page creation techniques set forth by InDesign, and site management…
…Adobe officials say: “This intuitive new version empowers non-code savvy design professionals to create modern, CSS-compliant websites using a visual interface and design techniques familiar to anyone who knows Adobe InDesign® CS3 software and print layout. Designers can easily incorporate assets from other Adobe products by copying and pasting formatted content from InDesign layouts and by embedding native Photoshop, Illustrator, and Adobe PDF files as smart objects. (Via MacNN.)
Looks like Adobe is trying to reposition GoLive as the visual interface web site designer for creative professionals instead of killing it off.
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The Completely Redesigned Layout Grid in GoLive CS2. GoLive’s Layout Grid is what eased me into Web design years ago. Many don’t realize it’s been redesigned in CS2 with a bunch of CSS goodness. (Via Resource Center Tips & Tutorials.)
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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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According to Macsimum News, which translated an article from MacGeneration, Adobe announced that it would cease development of FreeHand and GoLive during last week’s Adobe Live event.
The two applications are the first causalities from the Macromedia acquisition. Fans of the applications have been hoping against hope they would continue on. Although, the news shouldn’t come as much of a shock considering Illustrator and Dreamweaver seemed like the obvious contenders to survive. Illustrator because of its long lineage with Adobe and tight integration within the Creative Suite. Dreamweaver for its popularity in the Web development community and apparent edge over GoLive in terms of development features and performance.
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Adobe Says GoLive and Freehand Are Not Being Discontinued
(The emphasis on the word “support” is my doing. I just find the choice of this word interesting as opposed to using the word “develop”.)
Be sure to read the entire post to get the complete context, but I’m getting the impression that this is Adobe’s attempt at letting us down easy.
Continue reading ‘Adobe Says GoLive and Freehand Are Not Being Discontinued’
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