GoLive basics

The GoLive work area includes the site window (one for every site project), document windows for each open Web page, and a variety of editors and palettes for working with everything in your site. Windows can be stacked or tiled on your screen, and palettes can be grouped, ungrouped, rearranged on the screen, and saved as custom workspaces.

GoLive is designed for dragging

You can drag files around in the site window just like you drag files on your desktop--but by dragging in the site window, GoLive continually tracks the files and updates file references in the site accordingly. You can drag files from the site window into an open Web page to add images, smart objects, site assets, or hypertext links to the page. You can drag text and objects from one page to another, and from one site to another.

Using the Objects palette, you can drag objects representing HTML elements to an open page or drag them to the Library tab in the site window to store with your site. You can drag text and objects from the page back into the Objects palette (in the Library set) for storage with the application.

Using the point-and-shoot feature, you can create resource links (between object placeholders on the page and their source files) or navigational links (between the page and other pages or URLs) by dragging from the page or the Inspector to destinations in the site window or another open page.

If a window is hidden behind other windows, you can drag to the Select Window button  on the toolbar to bring the window to the front. When you drag a file or object to a tab on a window, GoLive brings the tab to the front of the window.

Starting the application

When the GoLive application starts, an Intro screen appears by default that contains options to create a new page or a new site, open a file, or close the Intro screen. You can deselect the option to show the screen at startup and later reselect the option in the Preferences dialog box. (See Setting preferences for opening pages.)