Many designers started designing websites with Adobe PageMill (html editor application), which then became Adobe GoLive. Both had good interfaces with smooth learning curves. Adobe discontinued GoLive in April 2008 in favor of their recently purchased Dreamweaver, and now we are forced to learn Dreamweaver with it’s maze-like interface, if we are to survive in a web developer’s dream. Although several years have passed, I still hope Adobe will improve this application or at least offer the same graphic mode of designing pages which GoLive offered.
After several failed attempts, I put off learning this Dreamweaver beast for years until yesterday, thanks to this tutorial “Dreamweaver for GoLive Users” by Sheri German, and expert in Dreamweaver, technology education, eLearning, Fireworks, Photoshop, design and typography.
More good tips, and video tutorials can be found on this Adobe Dreamweaver support section “Migrating from GoLive to Dreamweaver.” Hopefully we can break the barrier and get back to feeling in control of our web tools. I can always go back to using GoLive or ImageReady to design visually if I get stuck, but I love a good challenge 