About developing a CHTML site

As you develop on your CHTML pages, work in a site project file to get all the benefits of working in GoLive. The site project file manages links and site assets, lets you use site diagramming to design the structure of your site, and save pages as templates and stationery to increase your consistency and work efficiently. Follow these basic steps and guidelines to develop your site.

Set up the environment and pages.

You'll need to configure the Objects palette so that you can drag only valid CHTML elements to your page. If you are creating a Japanese CHTML site, you'll need to configure Golive to use the shift-JIS document encoding. Finally you'll need to set the page to the CHTML doctype and choose a browser preview setting. When you set the doctype, only formatting options that are valid in CHTML will be available.

Important: After you've configured the Objects palette and set the doctype, the GoLive context menus will continue to display all elements--including those that are not valid. Avoid using the context menus for adding CHTML elements and formatting text.

Add content

You can add text, links, form elements, and images just like any other GoLive page. However, not all HTML elements are supported, so they don't appear in the Objects palette when it's configured for CHTML.

Note: While the Div element is part of the CHTML specification, you shouldn't use GoLive floating boxes in your CHTML pages. Floating boxes include nonvalid CHTML tagson your page.

Preview pages in the phone emulator

The Adobe GoLive 6.0 CD (Windows version only) includes an emulator so that you can check how your CHTML pages will look on various i-mode compatible phones. See Previewing a page in a phone emulator (Windows only) for information on the Emulator. You can also use the Syntax checker to see if your pages use valid CHTML code. (See Checking syntax.)