Others say...

"Don't Waste Your Money on This Software"
Adobe GoLive CS2 is easily the worst application I've used in years. I went through the Adobe GoLive "Classroom In a Book" and then proceeded to develop a very simple website. I quickly discovered that the book carefully avoids doing anything too complex, because the software simply can't handle it.

This software crashes regularly. I quickly became trained to save the file after each operation. Other bugs include its inability to produce code that can be interpreted by either MS Internet Explorer or Mozilla Firefox. Pages will appear different in each browser. Java scripts might work in one or the other browser, seldom in both. Also, CSS text formatting tags (a:link, a:hover etc.) perform differently in each browser, the preview pane and the so-called Live Rendering screens.

It is very clear that this software was not thoroughly tested before being released. Or, more likely, it was released to meet a delivery target rather than any established quality criteria.

"Serious QA issues waste time, money. "
My wife purchased CS2 as required for her college courses. The product did NOT install properly, and it took two weeks with multiple calls to Adobe until we finally found someone technically competent enough to fix the issue. (Turns out if you have CS, you have to be careful to uninstall ALL components prior to installing CS2. But that is not documented except in some tech manual inside Adobe support.)

She spent long nights for the next week trying to get a simple web page with images to come up without using tables. (E.g. using CSS.) Not being an HTML technical Guru, she thought the problems were something she had done. When she got back to school she found that many of the students are having the same problem. For example: the program ends with "a serious error has occurred" message, the display objects jump all over the screen when you scroll or click anywhere, it inserts bogus code into the HTML header, the graphics rendering is done wrong.

Bottom line: CS2 is completely unstable; do not purchase it unless you have to. The schools should not force students to layout a ton of money for something so flakey. If you can avoid it, don't buy this product. Adobe should be ashamed.

[FYI, we have Win XP, P4 2.2Ghz, 512Mb mem., and other programs do not have these problems.]

"Close to a bull's eyes."
Compare to other web development tools, this one is ahead by many steps. I think the great features that set this product apart from others seem to be the fuller support for the latest Internet web standards (XHTML, CSS, etc), ease of plugin (called module in this one) development, and intuitively usable interface common among Adobe products. As many have pointed out already, it is still buggy, but you can continue to be productive following some basic advices found on Adobe's support website.

Common errors I've experienced are related to its integration with Version Cue 2, file locking controls, and FTP uploading so far. If you find it crashing more often, you may want to recreate the website from existing one (per advise found on Adobe's support website). Unfortunately, it does crash while working on a page time to time so you need to be saving your work as with any other program.

It's simply the best web design package out there with some annoying bugs in this initial release. The updates haven't arrived yet, but when it does I'm sure it'd be even better.

"Completely Unusable"
I can't even get this program to run for longer than ten minutes. At random intervals the program just shuts down and leaves me at my desktop. I'm running this program on a top of the line Windows XP laptop and I know my computer is not to blame. I far surpass the minimum requirements.

This is worse than GoLive 6.... and I have a deadline on a website! Thanks a lot Adobe for your useless software.

"Nagging Bugs from CS Not Fixed In CS2"
Very disappointing release! I have been a GoLive user for going on two years now and after a long waiting period, CS2 is finally upon us. Unfortunately, CS2 did not herald the bug fixes and core improvements so many GoLive users have been waiting for.

The most glaring problem is that GoLive CS2 still does not have a history feature. Even ridiculously simple functions like previewing your in-development pages make it impossible to revert to a previous state and undo any mistakes. Perform a find/replace and again, once you commit to the replace you cannot undo the change.

What is the point of previewing your webpage if you can't go back and correct a mistake? It is this kind of blatant oversight that damns GoLive to being a subpar program that just doesn't feel as intuitive or polished as other Adobe products.

There have been a number of small improvements (such as an advanced CSS library) but those changes cannot make you overlook the fact that at its core, GoLive CS2 is a buggy and fundamentally broken product that fails to deliver on every level.

Another poor showing. When will Adobe get this right? Not worth the money as a stand alone product and certainly not worth upgrading from CS.