GoLive CS2 introduces new features that make it easy for Web designers to use Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), preview pages for mobile devices, and edit SVG files, just to name a few. In GoLive CS2, you will find a rich environment for mobile content, and tighter integration with other applications in the Adobe Creative Suite 2.
The What’s New section includes some of the features that are included in the GoLive CS2 Classroom in a Book lessons. You can find a complete list of new features in GoLive Help. To access GoLive Help choose Help > GoLive Help.
With the addition of the toolbox, GoLive makes selections of objects easier. Using the Object Selection tool (
) and Standard Editing tool (
) makes it easy to select CSS containers (DIVs) and their contents.
The Selection tools are referenced and used throughout all of the lessons in the GoLive CS2 Classroom in a Book.
The enhanced Layer tool helps you to draw and position CSS DIVs with precision and accuracy.
Use this tool to visually position your layers. You can be more precise by entering exact values in the new Set Position, and dimension fields in the Main toolbar. Discover more about the Layer tool in Lesson 3, “Creating Page Layouts in GoLive.”
Whether using the default CSS-based layout grid or the table-based grid, you can take advantage of the new Grid Text tool.
The Grid Text Box tool allows you to visually create text areas on layout grids. Simply select the tool and click and drag a text area on your grid, much like you would create a text area in a page layout application such as InDesign or PageMaker. Read more about the Grid Text Box tool in Lessons 3, “Creating page Layouts in GoLive,” and 5, “Adding and Formatting Text.”
GoLive CS2 offers new support for pre-built, drag-and-drop CSS block objects. You can now recreate a number of standard CSS designs in no time by dragging CSS objects onto a page. You can the customize the design by adding objects into the layouts.
The new CSS objects are located in the CSS section of the Objects palette and include a 3-column layout with a liquid (flexible) center as well as a standard two-column layout with a fixed left column. Read more about using liquid layouts in Lesson 3, “Creating Page Layouts in GoLive.”
GoLive CS2 also introduces other CSS enhancements such as an improved CSS Editor. The CSS Editor allows you to check source code and syntax as you edit CSS styles, provides automatic conversion of HTML styles to CSS, and provides a default external style sheet that applies to all new pages in a site. Read more about CSS used in text formatting in Lesson 5, “Adding and Formatting Text.”
With the Mobile market booming in Asia and Europe, and now emerging in the United States, designers need to be prepared with the right tools for creating and editing mobile content.
GoLive delivers rich mobile authoring tools based entirely on open standards, such as CSS, XHTML, SMIL, SVG-Tiny, MPEG-4, and 3GPP.
Discover more about designing for the mobile market in “Designing for mobile devices” in GoLive Help.
GoLive CS2 offers live previews. As you make changes, you can see the changes immediately in the Live Rendering window. Change the settings in the Live Rendering to display a small screen by choosing SSR (Small Screen Rendering). Read more about displaying your page in the “Previewing your document in GoLive” section in Lesson 1, “Getting to Know the Work Area.”
Favorite icons let you specify an image that appears with your page’s title in the Favorites or Bookmarks menu of a Web browser. You can specify an image by using the favicon feature in GoLive CS2. You can even use a Smart Favorite icon from the Smart set of the objects toolbox to specify a Smart Object as a favorite icon. For more information see “Smart Favorite icons” in GoLive Help.
With InDesign’s Package For GoLive feature, you can easily incorporate content from InDesign documents into GoLive pages and sites. From open InDesign packages, you can either drag individual text and graphic assets to Web pages or export entire InDesign layouts to HTML. If you regularly revise package assets in InDesign, GoLive automatically updates related text and images using components and Smart Objects. For more information read “Importing InDesign packages” in GoLive Help.
Keep track of your team-based projects with Version Cue® and keep projects organized using Adobe Bridge®.
Version Cue uses projects to store related files and folders. If you work independently, you create a project to gather all the files you need, view the files in Bridge, and use Version Cue features such as versions and alternates. In a workgroup, depending on your workflow, you can create one Version Cue project for files that everyone in your workgroup collaborates on, a different project for files that don’t require collaboration, and yet another project restricted to specific users. Discover more about Version Que in Lesson 13, “Using Version Cue and Bridge with GoLive CS2.”
Adobe Bridge is the control center for Adobe Creative Suite. You use it to organize, browse, and locate the assets you need to create content for print, the Web, and mobile devices. Adobe Bridge keeps native PSD, AI, INDD, and Adobe PDF files as well as other Adobe and non-Adobe application files available for easy access. You can drag assets into your layouts as needed, preview them, and even add metadata to them. Bridge is available independently, as well as from within Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe InDesign, and Adobe GoLive.
Customize text components for different audiences. The Crop Text feature allows you to delete text that resides on components on individual pages without affecting the original component file. Discover how to use the cropping feature in Lesson 7, “Using Graphics in GoLive.”