Conclusions

We're very happy with Adobe GoLive 6.0 and look forward to learning and using some of its many new features. We are not sure if any or all of the improvements that we've noted while using v6.0 were previously made in v5.0 since we have not used that version. However, we are pleased to have them. Certainly the improvement in speed over using Classic mode alone is worth the upgrade to us.

Several features that we would like to have added involve tables. First, it is difficult to select a table by clicking on its edge, especially when the cell padding and border have been set to zero. A key sequence may exist but we haven't found it. We still can not find a way to globally change the text font type, size or characteristics within a table. The text in each cell has to be changed individually even if it is all the same changes in every cell. There may be ways to do some of this by creating a table style with the new special table palette and then saving and reusing it. But most of our tables are different from the others that we've created and those that aren't we just cut and paste them, then change the entries. [Update from Ian Price, "Select a cell and then shift-click (on a Mac, anyway) on the other cells (clicking inside them is fine...it doesn't have to be by the edge) you want to format...then go to town. You can format font, alignment, text size...almost anything you can think of." Thanks-ed.]

Adobe GoLive v6.0 runs native in Mac OS X, the first major web authoring and site management application to do so. Its MSRP is $399 for the full version or a very reasonable $99 for an upgrade from versions 4.x or 5.x.