What You Get

In the GoLive 6.0 box is the GoLive CD, Web Workgroup Server CD, GoLive User Guide, Web Workgroup Server User Guide, Wireless Authoring User Guide, Quick Reference Card, two support and registration pamphlets and a Video Workshop CD. The GoLive CD has the installer plus a product demo folder (Illustrator 10, Photoshop 6 and After Effects 5.5), a myriad of information files in PDF format, a LassoStudio172 evaluation extension, and several extras (Acrobat Reader 5.0.5, QuickTime 5.0.2, RealPlayer 8 and SVG 3.0).

The GoLive User Guide is a high quality 462+ page paperback book. It is nice to have a complete paper manual again since we bought the download edition of GoLive 4 which did not include a paper manual. While we are ardent supporters of going paperless, we still find that locating information is much faster and easier with a paper book than a PDF file, i.e. provided of course that one doesn't have to search for the book.

The Web Workgroup Server User Guide seems complete. Its 51+ pages covers the topic very well. Groups working together on web sites will really like this new feature of 6.0.

The Wireless Authoring User Guide covers creating web pages for wireless devices like cell phones with internet capability. GoLive 6 authors pages in special languages for these devices. Unfortunately, the preview pane that allows a web author to view the pages as one using a Nokia or Access phone browser is Windows-only, grrr....

The Video Workshop CD has a hyperCD link that installs a plugin into any Classic mode browser that is on your hard disk. Unfortunately, the CD does not have a plugin compatible with Mac OS X. Doing so requires Classic mode to launch as well as the browser, in our case Internet Explorer 5.1. The web browser navigates to a Total Training HyperCD web site where four lessons as stacks of QuickTime movies are offered:

1. Creating Layered Images in Photoshop
2. Working with Transparency and Symbols in Illustrator 10
3. Designing Interactive Animation in LiveMotion
4. Tying it All Together in GoLive 6

The lessons are given by Steve Holmes and are quite instructive.