The main working area of the program deliberately looks much like other Adobe applications, making it easy to move between them. The main editing windows float on the GoLive worktop, with palettes of functions controlling the tools. Users can now drag and stash palette tabs individually at the edge of the screen.

The key new features of GoLive 6.0 can be divided into three areas. Under the design-and-develop category comes greatly improved table handling, with new editing features--particularly selection--and increased control of HTML code. Adobe has also integrated GoLive more closely with Photoshop, Illustrator, and LiveMotion.

Manage functions govern how several people working on same aspect of a site handle different versions and revisions. The revision list is a good example, as it offers full details of who made certain changes to what, along with the time the changes were entered.

Finally, there's the deploy function, for when you finally launch your site. This feature offers new and improved support for WML authoring, writing for display on WAP devices, XML, QuickTime, and more of the growing family of Web standards.

Overall, GoLive is a worthwhile improvement if you're thinking about upgrading from a previous version. For newbies, make sure you're serious about Web site management, as this is a heavyweight tool. --Simon Williams

Amazon.com Product Description
The Adobe GoLive 6.0 visual authoring program has a lot to offer Web designers, not the least of which is the addition of the Adobe Web Workgroup Server. Building on previous versions, this release delivers powerful site management and collaboration capabilities, wireless authoring, and unparalleled support for incorporating print and video content. GoLive 6.0 also adds features that facilitate collaboration and help creative professionals easily develop content and rapidly deliver assets to a variety of outlets.

The Web Workgroup Server site management and collaboration tool in GoLive 6.0 lets multiple users track changes, as well as share and manage files, with ease. It adds version control and side-by-side comparison capabilities, including the ability to roll back to previous versions. Designers will also find full support for any WebDAV-enabled application in GoLive 6.0, including support for programs such as Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, and Macromedia Dreamweaver.

Other development features include a QuickTime 5.0 editing environment with streaming conversion and optimization capabilities. There's also a visual authoring environment utilizing video, audio, SWF, and SVG with support for W3C standards (including SMIL). GoLive 6.0 even adds the ability to deliver database-driven content and native support for common dynamic scripting languages, including PHP, ASP, and JSP. And, as always, GoLive integrates tightly with Adobe's entire family of professional design products.

On the other hand, Namo WebEditor 5.5 had all the same features, plus more, and was more intuitive. Not to mention the $... price tag, which can't be beat. Templates, dynamic menus, site management, dynamic content, server side scripting with ASP, JSP and PHP, yea they both have it.

As time goes on, I may use GoLive more often, but for the moment I believe Namo is superior. The fact that both output clean HTML helps, and I am actually able to switch back and forth between both editors.


Great for you OSX users   March 25, 2003
Kirk A Fickert (Lake St. Louis, MO United States)
4 out of 6 found this review helpful

I have used Frontpage and Dreamweaver in producing web pages over the past few years. Most of my sites have moved to dynamic webpages using PHP/MySQL on Unix based systems. Adobe GoLive has great support for PHP and MySQL on an OSX based system allowing one to develop sites locally and test them before deployment. This is a cool feature mainly found on the Mac OSX version as I have not used this program on a windows Machine. The closest I come is running Windows 98SE via Virtual PC.

If you use a work group to create webpages, the Adobe WebDEV server is great for manageing changes amoung the different designers. WebDev took a couple installs to work correctly on our MAC workstation that doubles as our development/test server, but once it was set up, it has been easy to use and stable.

The one feature that Golive lacks compared to DW is no intergration of BBedit text editing software. There are still some mac coders that can't live without BBEdit and I am one of them. The lack of cross support with BBedit is why I gave this a 4 star rating instead of a 5.


Speechless   March 4, 2002
First of all, Let me just say that I've been developing web pages for a long time, however have not come across something as feature-filled as this. Over the years, I've tried many HTML editors, Including online ones such as Yahoo! Geocities, and looking at the code it generated, I must say I was disgusted. GoLive's code cleanliness is commendable, how many times have you designed a page in frontpage and found that Mozilla doesnt like it? Could GoLive be the next Dreamweaver?

People building Database-Driven websites should feel right at home too, with built in support for PHP, JSP and ASP you'll double your productivity rate.

However, I must stress that GoLive as with any program, doesn't come without some flaws, one of the things I noticed is that it may take a week or two to become familiar with GoLive's complex interface, also If you're just starting out Web Developing, I would suggest not to purchase this, you'll need reasonable experience in web design to feel comfortable with GoLive, frontpage would be more your thing.

All in all I'm very pleased with my purchase, once again Adobe continues to impress with it's outstanding programs for web / graphic developers alike.


Excellent Customer Service   January 27, 2005
B. Lowery (Tulsa, OK)
3 out of 10 found this review helpful

I recently purchased a copy of Adobe GoLive 6 (electronic license) from AngelExTech.com. They promptly delivered the serial number for registration and were very willing to assist me if I had any technical issues (which I didn't). I would recommend using this company to anyone looking for this software or any other package they offer.

B. Lowery
Webmaster, WebIce, Inc.