Adobe GoLive was a

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and web site management application from

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. It replaced Adobe PageMill as Adobe's primary HTML editor and was itself discontinued in favor of Dreamweaver. The last version of GoLive that Adobe released was GoLive 9.

History

GoLive originated as the flagship product of a company named GoNet Communication, Inc. then based in

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, and the development company GoNet Communications GmbH in Hamburg, Germany, in 1996. Later GoNet changed its name to GoLive Systems, Inc, and the name of its product to GoLive CyberStudio. Adobe acquired GoLive in 1999 and re-branded the GoLive CyberStudio product to what became Adobe GoLive. Adobe took over the Hamburg office as an Adobe development site to continue to develop the product. At the time of the acquisition, CyberStudio was a

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-only application. In the spring of 1999 Adobe released Adobe GoLive for both Macintosh and

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. The first versions of Dreamweaver and CyberStudio were released in a similar timeframe. However, Dreamweaver eventually became the dominant WYSIWYG HTML editor in

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. After the Adobe acquisition of

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(the company that had owned Dreamweaver), GoLive was progressively re-targeted toward Adobe's traditional design market, and the product became better integrated with Adobe's existing suite of design-oriented software products and less focused on the professional web development market. The Adobe CS2 Premium suite contained GoLive CS2. With the release of Creative Suite 3, Adobe integrated Dreamweaver as a replacement for GoLive and released GoLive 9 as a standalone product. In April 2008, Adobe announced that sales and development of GoLive would cease in favor of Dreamweaver.

General description and distinctive aspects

GoLive incorporated a largely

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workflow that relied heavily on drag-and-drop. Most user interaction was done via a contextual

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rather than the modal workflow found in Dreamweaver. Among its features were a separate editor for tables that supported nesting, and a two-dimensional panel for applying CSS styles to elements. GoLive supported drag-and-drop of native

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and

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files via what the company called "Smart Objects", which then automatically guided the user through saving those files in web-supported formats. Updates to the original Photoshop or Illustrator assets were automatically tracked by GoLive. It also implemented a tool called "Components" which allowed updates to interface elements throughout a site to be updated globally by changing one single file. As a website management tool, GoLive allowed users to transfer and publish content directly from within the application, and allowed individual files to be excluded from uploading.

Features

One of the new features of GoLive version 5 was Dynamic Link, which was a method of creating dynamic, database-driven web content without the need to know a server-side language and with full WYSIWYG support in the GoLive

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. GoLive had a powerful set of extensibility

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which could be used to add additional functionality to the product. The GoLive SDK provided interfaces which allowed developers to use a combination of

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and C/ C++ to create plugins for the product. The extensibility API allowed developers access to custom drawing and

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using JavaScript, as well as a full JavaScript

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and

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. This allowed intermediate-level developers using interpreted

to create sophisticated

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Language and framework structure

Adobe GoLive is coded in the C++

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. It uses a custom C++ framework called SCL (Simple Class Library) which was initially built from scratch by the engineers at GoLive Systems Inc. The SCL framework was also used in the short-lived Adobe Atmosphere 3D software.

Release history

As the final version, GoLive 9 was discontinued in April 2008.

References

External links

Adobe GoLive homepage
* ttp://www.futurastudios.com/golive911/ Adobe GoLive Tutorials & Resource Sitebr>GoLive CS2 Tutorials and ReferenceGoLiveCentral - Tutorials & ResourcesRevive GoLive Adobe Forumchronicles from the GoLive era
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