Meet the Parents of Your Next Site Building Environment
Meet the parents of your next web site building environment: the industry’s two leading software packages, Adobe GoLive CS2 and Macromedia Dreamweaver 8, have recently been brought under one roof by the acquisition of Macromedia by Adobe. We take a look at how the two packages measure up and offer suggestions about upgrading or waiting for the products’ futures to become clearer.
Readers of our previous review of Dreamweaver MX will know that the main reason packages like Dreamweaver originally came into existence was to provide a way for users to build and edit web pages in an environment where they could see how the page would actually look when displayed by a browser, as distinct from the code-centric environment of the underlying HTML or XHTML. Although many sites nowadays are created and maintained with a CMS (content management system), which enables webmasters to separate the job of handling content from the job of determining how pages will look, nonetheless visual editors still occupy an important or even essential role for anyone interested in modifying or creating that look in the first place.
So for the many mental health professionals who do want to have a hand in crafting their site’s look and feel — and certainly for those who manage their site’s structure and organisation directly, rather than through a CMS — packages like Dreamweaver and GoLive are worth evaluating.
In the part of the site devoted to Developing Your Practice, which includes a section of hardware and software reviews, we take a look at the features and limitations of both Dreamweaver 8 and GoLive CS2 and offer some suggestions about upgrading (or not), depending on your needs and your current site building environment.
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