Just got GoLive 9... which should have been part of CS3. Instead, I had to pay $169 to update it. Has the CS3 interface, a few really irritating interface features (separation of the text tool/cursor from the object tool). But so far no major crashes. Before the upgrade, today alone, GoLive bailed four times on me.

I didn't even know GoLive was even being supported. I thought once Adobe absorbed Macromedia they had dropped GoLive all together.

That was the plan, but there was a hue and cry. As much as I love Dreamweaver, and use it... there are some things GoLive does better. Some ways it makes life easier.

Adobe is pushing to have every GoLive site converted to Dreamweaver, they give some fairly good tips on how to do this, but when you think of all the actions that were created for GoLive, and how many people prefer the interface... it's not going to happen overnight.

The new GoLive interface continues to be a struggle. It was so much simpler before, now there are separate editing tools that are pretty counterintuitive to use... for example, when you select an object like a graphic that has a hyperlink, the inspector no longer shows the link. You have to use the TEXT tool to select the object, which makes no sense, because it ain't text.

What I do like, is that nice small font in the site window. Fairly readable. I'd love to be able to use that one in my finder lists.

Could you make a screenshot, please? I'm highly interested in that font.

Thanks, that font looks pretty good regarding it is an anti-aliased font rendered in OS X.

It's currently the smallest semi-readable font on the Mac that's still aliased. I like it better than Lucida Mushé.

Bye Bye Go Live.

Oh. You. Have. Gotta. Be. Fucking. Kidding. Me.

Well, screw them. It crashes all day anyway. I think they should offer REFUNDS for people who bought 9.

I have been warning you of this for the last year.

Switching over from GoLive to Dreamweaver is turning out to be hell on earth for certain things. There are SO many great extensions for GoLive, which of course will not work with Dreamweaver. Plus there were a lot of really nice intuitive interface things in GoLive which take much longer, and are slower in Dreamweaver.

Since I owed both, I can't even take advantage of the special deal for GoLive users (Dreamweaver for $199). I'm going to see if I can get a Windows copy at the discount.

If they had kept developing GoLive (which I was a beta tester for), I'm sure it could have been to web designers what InDesign became to Graphic Designers. ID began its life as Pagemaker. Which was kind of the GoLive of page layout.

GoLive did, however, have a series of niggling and irritating bugs that, despite my best efforts to report, they never fixed. And the program took a nosedive in reliability since the advent of OS X, that it never really recovered from.