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.
Comments [0]