I am a medical technologist, using a Mac G4 with a 933 Mhz processor, 768 MB of RAM and 60 gig hard drive. The operating system I use is Mac OSX 10.2.4.
I started out using Netscape Communicator then I became familiar with Adobe PageMill. More recently I have used Adobe GoLive 5 to design our Mac User Group webpage. The review I wrote for that software is posted on our webpage at http://homepage.mac.com/murness. I was looking forward to being able to use GoLive 6 with my Jaguar operating system.
Adobe GoLive 6.0 can run in either Classic with system 9.1 or 9.2 or native in OS X. It requires a G3 or G4 processor and at least 96 MB of RAM (128 recommended) and 90 MB of free hard disk space and a CD ROM drive.
Adobe GoLive 6 is a web design software. Its purpose is to let you quickly design, build, manage and deploy web content. This version also will allow you to design dynamic content in a work group setting and make sites for wireless devices.
The install was quick and easy. It took 5 minutes to get up and running. The first thing I did was open and save our user group website in GoLive 6. The general feel was the same with new sleek OS X look to the site window and inspectors.
One of the things I wanted to do that I had not done before is to upload directly from GoLive. When I was using Netscape, I used Fetch to do the upload to my ISP’s server. I recently went to DSL and had not filled my measly 5 MB space given with it for a webpage. I went for a weekend getaway for scrap booking with my daughter in law and took along our digital camera. We got talking with the owner of the B & B in Amana where we stayed and she expressed an interest in seeing the pictures that I took with the idea of possibly using some on her webpage. I got the idea of putting the pictures on a webpage and then sending her the URL so that she could download any one of the 12 pictures she was interested in. It seemed the easiest way to get the transferring done. It was so smooth to put in the settings for the FTP, connect and upload. The other feature that I think I will really enjoy is the easy of site clean up. After you have changed the content and broken links to unwanted pages, you can quickly remove files not linked. Which would reduce the space needed for the site on the server.
GoLive offers online tutorials that are very good. From within GoLive, click HELP>GoLive HELP and then the webpage will open. I plan to use this to further my study of dynamic content pages.
Included with my software was a video workshop CD. I found this hard to use. When I put it in my CD drive and double clicked the CD ROM icon it opened just fine. But after I went to the Hyper CD webpage I found out 2 very important things that were not covered in the readme file. HyperCD is not compatible yet with Mac OSX, nor will it work properly with Netscape 7. So, in order to use the CD I had to open the URL for the CD in classic with a older browser. It was not easy to find the URL for the CD either because the newer browsers don’t give you a message that contains it. It was only after I changed the start up HD to my OS9 and tried to open it in Netscape 4.72 that I learned what the URL was and could open it in Explorer. It does contain a good presentation on the use and integration of the Adobe programs, Illustrator, Photoshop, InDesign and GoLive. I would recommend a Quicktime movie on CD instead of the HyperCD.
Another feature of the software is the ability to have several people (a workgroup) contribute to a site. The workgroup software also allows the building of commercial sites with shopping carts and dynamic pages. Although this is not my current situation, it gives me an opportunity to investigate dynamic content rendering.
I’m very pleased with the software.
It currently sells for $399.00 at MacMall http://www.macmall.com/ The upgrade costs $99.
Submitted: Jan 27, 2003