Page jumping?
If you notice that some pages shift in relation to others, it is probably because some have scroll bars and others don’t. For those without, change the page size accordingly or add scroll bars, even if they do nothing. The latter may look better.
Problems setting backgrounds?
If you try to change the background color of a file and nothing happens when you select a new color, you probably have it prohibited in your basic.css file. Open this Basic.css file, which will be in the Site window, select the Body style on the left, click the Background Properties icon, and from the Color menu choose either Unchanged to use the background color that you applied through the Page Inspector palette, or double-click the color swatch to specify the background color through the CSS style.
Reselecting imported text
When you try to import a tab-delimited text file into a table in GoLive, it works for Windows users, but for Mac users the file is dimmed so you can't select it. The workaround is to open the file with a resource editor such as ResEdit or Resourcer and change the creator code of the file to GoMk, that is, the GoLive creator. Then it will work as it should.
Accurate tables
If you click on a Layout Grid, you will notice that the top left corner of the square you click in has the corner highlighted. Then if you click and Command/Ctrl drag on the Table Object in the Object palette to give you the required amount of rows and columns, the table will be placed on the square in the grid that you selected.
Colors from Photoshop
To pick a color from a Photoshop file, make sure the image is open in Photoshop and that you can see it and GoLive at the same time. Click with the Eyedropper in the GoLive interface and while keeping the button pressed, drag it over the Photoshop file. If you simply click on the Photoshop file with the Eyedropper you will make Photoshop active.
Plain links
If you want to remove the underline from all your links make a new style in the CSS Editor, create a new Element Style (<a>) and make sure that the No Text Decoration button is selected.
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Custom defaults
Once you have created a page that you like, you can make it a default for future pages. Save it as something like template.htm (it can have any name but must have the .htm suffix). Then go to General Preferences (Edit>Preferences>General), click the option for New Page Template, and browse to your page. This way you can have all the required metatags, XHTML, style sheets, menus, and logos already set up. You can even have a different page set up for each client, and when developing a range of new pages, just load the desired default.
Stop dynamic code being dynamic
If you get GoLive to create dynamic content, it will change when circumstances do. To stop changes being made once the code is generated, surround it with < noedit> and </noedit> tags. These should be outside any PHP tags you have used and outside the GoLive-specific tags.
Colored links
For folks who like to have multiple link colors on a page, Mads Rasmusens has a tutorial on using different colors with pseudo-class links by using code. If you are unsure about declaring pseudo-classes, there is also a tutorial on that on his site.
www.rasmussens.dk/tut/css/codeway.html
Import from local
Because the GoLive Work Group Server cannot import a site stored on another computer or import it through HTTP, first open it on your machine and use the Convert to Workgroup Site from the Workgroups submenu. Remember that workgroup sites have their own icon in the upper-left corner.
Anchors become bookmarks
In recent versions of GoLive, HTML Anchors become named bookmarks when web pages are converted to PDF.
When setting a target with a frameset HTML open, the link may open a new window for the file. Firstly, do not try and view the result in GoLive, as it doesn't always work. The target page appears in a separate page, even if the code is right. If it happens when previewing in a browser make sure that the name of the target frame is in the frameset page. Then when setting up the link to the page, enter the url to the page you want to appear in the frame and then the name of the frame in the Inspector's Target field. This can be typed in, or if the frameset page is opened before the link is set, the target name will appear in the drop down list. Make sure that your frame names do not contain any spaces or other special characters, and that the names start with a letter.
Placing new pages
When you add a new page (File>New Page), this new page is not usually created in the correct place in your Web site, unless you have previously created one there in the current session. So save immediately and be careful to save the page within your site. If you drag a page from the Objects palette, be sure you drag it to the correct location in the Site window so a simple save will make sure it is located where you want it. Using Align on the toolbar will align objects relative to the layout grid, and the Align palette will align objects relative to each other.
Anchors become bookmarks
In recent versions of GoLive, HTML Anchors become named bookmarks when web pages are converted to PDF.
When setting a target with a frameset HTML open, the link may open a new window for the file. Firstly, do not try and view the result in GoLive, as it doesn't always work. The target page appears in a separate page, even if the code is right. If it happens when previewing in a browser make sure that the name of the target frame is in the frameset page. Then when setting up the link to the page, enter the url to the page you want to appear in the frame and then the name of the frame in the Inspector's Target field. This can be typed in, or if the frameset page is opened before the link is set, the target name will appear in the drop down list. Make sure that your frame names do not contain any spaces or other special characters, and that the names start with a letter.
Placing new pages
When you add a new page (File>New Page), this new page is not usually created in the correct place in your Web site, unless you have previously created one there in the current session. So save immediately and be careful to save the page within your site. If you drag a page from the Objects palette, be sure you drag it to the correct location in the Site window so a simple save will make sure it is located where you want it. Using Align on the toolbar will align objects relative to the layout grid, and the Align palette will align objects relative to each other. |
