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Automate Email Replies in HTML

4. December 2007

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In GoLive, Dreamweaver, or any HTML editor, you can set up a link that automatically sends an email message, along with a subject, body text, optional carbon copies, etc. Here’s how: A normal email link starts with mailto: and then the email address. After that, add a question mark (?) followed by any combination of the [...]

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A Handy History

4. December 2007

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GoLive’s palettes can all be docked at the side, top, or bottom of the screen (except where the Mac OS X Dock resides). Since the History palette tends to get long, open it, stretch it as long as your screen is tall, then drag the double lines on its Tab to the top-right of your [...]

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Simplify a Palette

4. December 2007

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The Color palette is normally paired with the Objects palette. Unlike any other palette, however, it opens automatically when you click any Color Swatch. So pull it off the Objects palette, then close it. Each time it opens, just use it and close it again. –by Deborah Shadovitz

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A Visual Clue

4. December 2007

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When you’re working on a page, give yourself a color reminder that it’s in progress. Select that page in the Files tab, then choose a status from the Status menu. –by Deborah Shadovitz

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GoLive Tips Site

4. December 2007

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Here’s a site for free GoLive tips. (You’ve gotta love folks who do this for you!) It’s www.GoLiveTutor.com by Dave Jones, who hosts the GoLive Windows forum at adobeforums.com. (Many thanks to Dave.) –by Deborah Shadovitz

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Safest Uploading

4. December 2007

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When you upload a page after changing it, it replaces the version of that page that’s currently on the server. As a precaution, before you upload a new page, connect, and in the FTP tab of the Site Window, rename the old page. I add “LAST” to mine so it reads, indexLAST.html. That way if [...]

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Easy Special Edition Pages

4. December 2007

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Need to post a temporary special edition of a page? In the Files tab, dupe the “real” page. Rename the duped page to reflect the change it’ll contain and make the changes to the duped page. Upload that duped page, still with the descriptive name, and then on the server (in the FTP tab), append [...]

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Easier PayPal, Part 1

4. December 2007

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Using PayPal? Transmit Media has a free PayPal eCommerce Extension for you. It provides a wizard for you to easily create PayPal payment buttons from within GoLive. This is for both Mac and PC versions of GoLive, but only for GoLive version 6.01. You can download it from www.transmitmedia.com/golive/paypal. (Thanks Paul Vachier.) –by Deborah Shadovitz

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Easier PayPal, Part 2

4. December 2007

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Here’s another way to use a PayPal solution: eCatalogBuilders, Inc. has a PayPal interface for their excellent CatalogIntegrator Lite shopping cart. Built around GoLive’s Dynamic Content module, it includes a pre-written cart interface that submits complete shopping cart orders through a PayPal account. To learn more, visit http://web1.ecatalogbuilders.com/common/purchasecbcart/buy_now_Lite.htm. –by Deborah Shadovitz

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Another Tips Site

4. December 2007

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Lynn Grillo and Adam Pratt not only work for the GoLive community by day as Application Specialists for Adobe, but also do amazing work for GoLive users in their spare time. You’ll find a plethora of their tips on a page called GoLive 6 Tips and Tricks, by clicking the Tips button at www.GoLiveIn24.com. They [...]

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