Chapter9.Using Adobe GoLive CS2

Chapter 9. Using Adobe GoLive CS2

Adobe InDesign and Adobe GoLive are kindred spirits. Both of these applications are what I call "aggregators," meaning that you use them to bring together text, images, and multimedia elements created elsewhere. Yes, you can do some drawing in InDesign, and, yes, you can do image compression, cropping, and animation in GoLive. But the heavy lifting in terms of creating image assets is done in Photoshop, ImageReady, and Illustrator.

None of the graphics tools in the Creative Suite, however, has anything remotely like GoLive's incredibly powerful site-management capabilities for links. Websites can have dozens, hundreds, even thousands of pages, each including multiple links to additional pages, images, and more. Long, long ago (as in 1992), most people kept track of URLs by keeping copious notes and by testing, testing, testing. These days, though, you leave that stupefying job to GoLive.

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What's New in GoLive CS2?

If you've used GoLive before, here's a quick overview of what's new in the CS2 version of GoLive: visual CSS tools for creating pages for the Web and mobile devices, visual SVG-t authoring for mobile devices, automated favicon creation, enhanced InDesign integration with an improved Package for GoLive feature, and Secure FTP support.