Go Live 6...

[Tyger]

...arrived on my doorstep this weekend!

Easy Install, easy import of my Go Live 4 sites.

LOADS of goodies in this version. Much improved UI.

Oh and it's OSX native of course...

Dreamweaver? What's that?

[lerkfish]

very cool. good to know since I was hovering on upgrading.

[meancode]

lerkfish, it is very well worth the upgrade.

he he, do you want to start a dreamweaver/golive fight here? i dont you do. i am a dreamweaver user since version 1, i have also used golive since it was called golive cyber studio (before adobe took it over). i cannot stand golive 4 or 5. it is so slow to work with anything. i hate it. but i have been using the golive 6 betas, and now have the final as well. and i must say i am VERY IMPRESSED with this new release. i am NOT happy that they do not have built in support for CFML, it probably never will, since golive still has yeet to be as customizable as dreamweaver. but the improvements in UI in golive 6 make it a very usable product. i think it is funny to note that all the UI improvements to golive 6 are strait out of dreamweaver 4's bag of tricks. if you are a golive person, i think you will be much more productive with version 6. adobe is trying to make it more and more extensable, wich is a good thing. golive 6 is not going to make me swich (all the new features are in the old version of dreamweaver 4) but it is a hell of an improvement for golive people. i am chapped about no CFML support though. i mean if you are going to support major server technologies, the leaste you could do iis support them all. were i would give golive 5 only 3 stars, i give golive 6 a full 5 stars. (and thats coming from a dreamweaver user, he he).

on the other hand, watch out for the MX line from macromedia. i have been playing with the betas of the MX products and it is insane. that being Dreamweaver MX, Flash MX, Fireworks MX, and Cold Fusion MX. with the exeption of Fireworks, they are all kick ass. (i never cared much for Fireworks).

[lerkfish]

I too have used golive since the first cyberstudio PE release.
Although I've not had the problems others have with 4 and 5, I agree it needed work.

[cj69collins]

:rolleyes:

'meancode,' are you working on MX on MacOSX? I was not pleased to see the announcement of Flash MX arrive when my preordered GL/LM bundle arrived last night. I probably would not have ordered it had I the confidence that Flash and Dreamweaver for X were a possible reality, rather than the distant hope Macromedia exuded repeatedly.

I have yet to fully explore GoLive 6 against my existing Dreamweaver 4 site, though I do have some 'interface transition issues' to consider. I would like to see how GL works with the JSP and PHP tests I have.

[Phil St. Romain]

I'm moving this thread to our new Software News and Reviews thread and closing it here.

I'll mention that I installed Golive 6 without a hitch last nite, imported my 5.0 sites and re-worked a few web pages. Very nice, and decently fast on my Pismo 500.

I rebooted into OS 9 to see how it worked there, and all went well. Nice to have a carbonized app that works well under both systems (as opposed to one for X and one for 9--e.g. Eudora, Mozilla, IE, etc.)

Let's keep comparing notes on the new forum.

Phil

[meancode]

cj69collins, i dont know if you have used DW UltraDev to do asp, jsp, php, or cold fusion stuff. there is a 3rd party that puts the php server model into Ultradev, and it works just as good as the other 3 built in technologies. i have used all 4 with ultradev. and man it is slick.

i used php and asp with golive 6 so far, and its not the same ease of use. first off adobe calls things different names. they dont call them by the widly exepted terms, such as repeat region, ect. and the tools in golive for the dynamic creation are not as nice, and not as many as ultradev. its a hell of a lot more than that golive 5 asp kit had though.

i have not seen a beta of ultradev mc yet, but they betas of flash mx, dreamweaver mx, and fireworks mx i am playing with look pretty final to me. flash was just announced, and i imagine dreamweaver and fireworks to follow suit.

i dont know if you have noticed, but macromedia canned generator 2 in lue of a cold fusion based solution. this mx series is that solution. flash mx has all the tools in it to work with cold fusion. and there is also cold fusion mx, and am sure there is also going to be a cold fusion mx server. i am guessing the new version of ultradev will also work with the slew of them in the dynamic flash stuff as well.

oh, yes i am working with flash, etc betas on mac os x. they are great. they have incorporated a lot of dreamweaver things across the entire line. such as the property inspector. also flash has this quick tag editor-esk thing in the new action script window.

[Phil St. Romain]

3rd day using Golive, and I'm very impressed. When it's not in use, it lets go of the system and processor resources, unlike what Golive 5 in Classic did. It's also faster than Golive 5/Classic, which wasn't so hard to do.

Lots of great new features here that I'm still discovering.