TIP 29: Touring the Six Document Modes

When you open a Web page in GoLive you see six tabs across the top of the document window. Each tab offers a different way to edit or view your page. To change modes, click on the document tabs. Let's start on the left side and work our way across.

Changing the Default Mode

The default document mode is the Layout Editor, and, like so many other things in GoLive, you can customize it. In the General section of the application preferences, select your favorite option from the Default Mode pull-down menu.

Figure 29. There are six powerful ways to edit and preview your Web pages in GoLive.

• Layout Editor: Visual designers spend most of their time using GoLive's Layout Editor. When you add and edit objects in this mode, GoLive writes all the source code for you (see Tips 3660).

• Frame Editor: HTML frames are not nearly as popular as they used to be, but if you need to create frames pages this is the mode you work in (see Tip 75).

• Source Code Editor: GoLive includes a very full-featured source code editor that is chock-full of timesaving features (see Tips 7782).

• Outline Editor: The Outline Editor sports a unique outline view of the structure of a page (see Tips 8591).

• Layout Preview: To see an accurate preview of what your Web pages will look in a browser, switch to this preview mode that uses the Opera browser as the rendering engine (see Tip 92).

• PDF Preview: GoLive includes a one-click conversion of any Web page to an Adobe PDF (Portable Document Format) file (see Tips 95107).