Dreamweaver vs. GoLive

[aharrisreid]

I am currently evaluating GoLive 5.0 and Dreamweaver 4.0 in an attempt to find out which will better suit my web-development needs. There are features I like about both, but before I make my final decision, I would like to know if there are any web-developers out there who have tried both products, what they think of them, pros + cons of each, etc..

Any help or opinions would be appreciated.

Many thanks,
Alan Harris-Reid

 

[funkymonk]

I haven't used GoLive for a while but the thing that swung me towards Dreamweaver was the interface. I found with GoLive that the work space was restricted as it is all in the same window. With Dreamweaver you get lots of seperate windows so space is as free as you want it to be. As far as I know they both have pretty much the same abbilities as far as web design goes.

I'm sure people will say they don't like the interface of Dreamweaver but this just comes down to personal preference. If you've used both, wich one did you like working with the most? I think that's all you need.

One thing that may be better about GoLive is is the fact that is does not mess with your code as much as Dreamweaver does. This is the one thing that annoys me about Dreamweaver but unless your hand-coding, you will always have this problem with WYSIWYG editors. funkymonk B-)
rod@sameplanet.co.uk

 

[aharrisreid]

Funkymonk,

Many thanks for the reply.

Regards,
Alan

 

[neofactor]

I have been a long time GoLive fan since the early Mac days, so I never really caught onto DreamWeaver.

Now that I run a Web Team and have switched to PCs, I used Golive exclusively for the 1st year but my team and I found that it crashed all too often to be a reliable tool. I spoke with Adobe at conferences and they say they didn't hear about succh problems but I hear many others with the same problem. I even made a batch script you would launch 1st that deleted the old preference file and replaced it with a clean on before launching the app.

This helped for a while but still... problems arise. Especially with a client in the chair and changes get lost!

DreamWeaver is now in our office, but I still fall back on GoLive for clean fast layout. We are a Coldfusion shop now so we handcode almost everything.... That works the best for me now.

The short of it:
Handcode with thinhs like HomeSite or Coldfusion Studio... and sparingly let the Graphic designer use a GUI tool like Golive to layout the template... handcode whenever possible.

This may not help but a different perspective at least.
- David