Migrate, upgrade, or…

There have been a lot of discussions among GoLive users on what to do after GoLive was removed in the CS3 suite.

Here is my take, depending on which user category you're in:

Satisfied GoLive CS2 (or earlier) user:

If you are mostly doing static sites with no server side scripting, there is probably no point in migrating to Dreamweaver right now.

Upgrading to GoLive 9 doesn't make much sense since you are pretty happy with what you got, and there is always a learning curve with a new app.

Not so happy GoLive CS2 (or earlier) user:

Upgrading to GoLive 9 might sound as a good idea, but GoLive 9 is quite different from GoLive CS2, and there are very few indications of more versions after 9.

Advanced GoLive CS2 (or earlier) user:

If you are working with server side scripting, XML/XSLT, AJAX, Flash or any other web technologies beyond HTML you should definitely migrate to Dreamweaver.

Features that disappeared between GL CS2 and GL9:

• Preview Tab
• Site Diagrams
• Co-Author
• Package4GoLive
• HTML Styles
• Visual tag editor
• Moveable Type, WML, QuickTime, Real, SMIL/MMS, SVG-t editing (not all were switched on by default in previous versions)
• SVG output from Illustrator smart object (only bitmaps now)
• Bridge extension (added Go To Bridge, Stock Photos toolbar)
• SWF Detect extension (added SWF detect tab to SWF inspector)
• MobileConvert extension (added Convert to XHTML Mobile to Special Convert menu)

To check out the new features please go here .