#Creating image maps in adobe golive install#
#Creating image maps in adobe golive software#

Okay, before I start on my rant, I want to make sure that I do give Adobe some respect for Photoshop, Illustrator, After Effects, and InDesign. There was talk that during the merging process that all the up and coming young talent wanted to switch over to the Macromedia division and all the business types wanted to head to the main offices at Adobe. I can’t tell you how hard it was to take the news. Then the black day that I’ll always remember as the beginning of the end came when I heard the announcement that Adobe had purchased Macromedia. There was a sense that Macromedia was an outlier, based on the idea that they cared about helping people to build sites not about greed. Nearly everyone I knew used Dreamweaver and it usually showed in their sites. Then there was the much loved Macromedia Dreamweaver. For some reason they just didn’t get any traction or respect from designers back in the day.

Adobe’s Golive was the second offering from Adobe.

#Creating image maps in adobe golive install#

To upload a Frontpage site you had to install special files on the server to ensure that your site would work. Frontpage was basically considered your parents choice and suffered from corporate bloat everywhere. If you were a right-brainer, then you went for a wysiwyg editor like Micorsoft’s Frontpage, Macromedia’s Dreamweaver, and lets not forget Adobe’s GoLive. The problem was that the site built this way were awful to look at. If you had a programming background, you could code it with something like c++. There were two ways to build a site back then. Just by having a site meant something to others, mainly that you were dedicated, and depending on what the site looked like, maybe talented too. This to me is just awful, not for using those services, but that there was a technical aspect to building a site. It was a something that nearly anyone could do if they really tried hard, now it’s left to services like Squarespace or Wix and just a step above them is WordPress.

There were a lot of problems building a site back in the day, but over time, mostly because of large corporations getting into the mix, the web design process has become more domesticated.

#Creating image maps in adobe golive software#

Points were lost if you just used an image map to create your site, or the worst was having some software build it for you, “save as web page” ugg! If you were around back then, you remember the days when you were cutting edge if you had a site, bonus if it actually worked. Those were the days when the web was new, back in the mid to late nineties. I remember the good old days when I’d jump on the computer and fire up Dreamweaver to either make a new web site or to make changes to a site already up.