I remember when Adobe purchased Macromedia… it was a shock, and as a web developer a worry. GoLive’s smart objects features), and include the site management power features of GoLive, then I’ll be a happy mollified camper. If the Adobe people working on the Dreamweaver team can integrate it with the rest of the Creative Suite (e.g. And I have hope that the ex-Macromedia crew who are now Adobe employees will not allow them to lose the pulse of the web, and keep this program on track with what web developers need. I am heartened that they’re still working on a new version of GoLive. I know many GoLive users continue to use that version (v6) to this day just because of those features.Īch. The web was (and is) moving towards more dynamically-generated sites (like this one!), Dreamweaver already had a solid set of dynamically-based web dev features, and here Adobe was removing the ones we had all just started understanding and using? Unbelievable. (I can’t tell you how many times I saw other Adobe staffers talk about/demo the Creative Suite and forget to mention GoLive!) As an observer it was obvious that Adobe added GL as an afterthought to the Creative Suite.Īll this for years, while Macromedia evangelized a robust Dreamweaver developer community, provided a slew of tutorials and forums on their web site for it, developed courseware, certified Dreamweaver training centers, encouraged and supported third-party plug-in developers (or whatever they called them … extensions? “behavior”-ists?), listed dozens of third-party books on Dreamweaver in Macromedia Press, and so on.Ī few years ago, when Adobe came out with a new version of GoLive that was missing built-in database development features found in previous versions, the GoLive web dev community was shocked. As a GoLive user/trainer, it’s been incredibly frustrating watching Adobe just sort of sit there with its knockout powerhouse of a product, and did relatively nothing to market it or grow its community, save for field staffers Adam Pratt’s and Lynn Grillo’s road presentations. But Dreamweaver was available for Windows (as well as Mac) long before GoLive was, as I recall, and in retrospect I guess this was a telling blow.īut I think Adobe’s laissez-faire attitude to the web developer market was the real telling blow over the long run. They added a decent number of features to it over the years, many of which are still unmatched in Dreamweaver (which we sometimes use, reluctantly, when forced). As a long-time GoLive user (we’ve developed dozens of successful commercial sites with it), this is depressing but not surprising news.ĭepressing, because I can’t imagine trying to maintain and modify some of the sites our studio is responsible for without GoLive-only features like the site window, In/Out links palette, smart objects with variables, save for web, and more.Īdobe bought GoLive from a third-party developer when it was the premiere web authoring program for the Mac, before Dreamweaver was even a speck in its daddy’s eye.
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