Touted as the King of HTML authoring tools it usefully received a five mouse review in the July 1998 (UK based) MacUser Magazine, which is hard to argue with. Indeed hard work and systematic improvements have won the hearts and minds of legions of reviewers.
 
Another upgrade and it's now looking pretty slinky. Features for the full edition include instant java goodies like rollover buttons. Professional designers who are trying to reproduce corporate layout for the net should find it helpful. Not quite as devilishly (and some would say unnecessarily) complex as Macromedia's horrific DreamWeaver 1.2, though still likely to need a spot or two of RTTFM [refer to the f**king manual]. Arguably it has forced Page Mill to incorporate SiteMill as part of PageMill's architecture just to keep up. It boasts a number of useful fine tuning features and does seem to successfully straddle the ever-widening gap between WYSIWYG and the older source exposed method of authoring. In fact, other than a rather overwhelming complexity of options, you'd be hard pressed to spot shortcomings, though a suggested size of nearly 19megs of RAM might be one.
 
Personally I still find Symantec's VisualPage the more intuitive and "Mac-like" application. However, GoLive 2.0 has been intensively marketed and successfully hyped over it's principal rivals and this update can only help to solidify their enviable market position. Symantec should find a way to legally poach their marketing team. Offered for the Mac and other platforms at www.golive.com as a 30 day demo it requires a registration key which GoLive will subsequently supply you by Email.
