GoLive Vs. Dreamweaver

Obviously, GoLive and Dreamweaver do many of the same things, but here are a few things that they do NOT have in common.

+ When using Input PHP in GoLive, you are still able to view the design of your website. The parts in PHP are shown with little icons.

- When using Input PHP in Dreamweaver you are no longer able to view the design of your site and unable to edit things unless by the source code. In place of your site you have a bunch of code. In other words, if you want to see what it will actually look like, you HAVE to open it in the browser or upload it or you can save two versions of every page, one in HTML (just so you can see what it looks like) and one for the PHP.

- GoLive does not have built in FTP. You must upload your site and pages with another program (It's not like it's hard to jump over to Fetch).

+ Dreamweaver has a handy little FTP built in, so that you can upload the pages as you do them and/or without opening a new FTP client like Fetch.

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GoLive does not have the ability to create AP Divisions(Layers) which could come in handy if you wanted a drop down menu. If you want one of these, you'll have to use a javascript code or buy a license with somewhere like opencube.com.

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Dreamweaver has the ability to create AP Divisions(Layers) so you can create drop down menus (and more) relatively easily. The Problem: These layers don't actually work in all browsers or on all computers. In other words, you're better off figuring out one of the javascripts or not using drop downs at all!

+ GoLive's interface is very clean and friendly. It is minimalistic in a way. Only what you need when you need it and you can pull the tool windows to the right and have them stay as little icons until you need them, giving you more room to work.

- Dreamweaver's interface is full of little buttons and gadgets being more confusing than helpful. You can't pull them to the side and have them turn into little buttons. Instead they are several columns of little buttons which you can collapse back to the column after it. Even if you collapse all of them, they still take up a significant amount of space and are constantly getting in my way as I work.

People often argue that GoLive sort of "invents" its own code, so the code is not perfect and may be incompatible with some browsers or computers. And yet I have and have owned multiple websites which were all designed in GoLive and they have always been cross browser compatible. On the other hand, a website I designed for a job with Dreamweaver was not cross-browser compatible and I have come across multiple Dreamweaver designed websites which are not (most often because they were designed in layers).

Is it the tool or the artist? I will leave it up to you.

My Vote: Golive all the way...

It will continue to vex me why GoLive was dropped and the majority of people favor Dreamweaver despite its flaws.