Using Adobe GoLive CS, Part 1

On the left side of the screen is what appears to be a toolbox similar to that found in Photoshop, ImageReady, Illustrator, and InDesign. Looks, in this case, are deceiving, because in GoLive it is called the Objects palette, and it functions differently than the toolbox in the sibling apps. The Objects palette has a series of square buttons at the top. Clicking a button opens a set of objects in the lower portion of the palette. Hover your mouse over a button, and a ToolTip with the name of that set of objects will pop up. You can also select a set of objects by clicking the Palette Options button at the lower-right corner of the Objects palette and choosing the name of the set from the list. To limit the available objects shown to only those that conform to a specific Document Type Definition (DTD), choose ConFigure from the Palette Options and select the DTD of your choice.

Although the name of this palette is not Toolbox, you will find that you need to access it just as often as you use the tools in the graphics applications.

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Tip - Those of you familiar with previous versions of GoLive might want to revert the Objects palette to its old look. You can easily do that by clicking the Toggle Orientation button at the lower left of the Object palette.

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You can use all the objects in the Objects palette (see Figure 9.6) by dragging and dropping them into place. You can also place many of them by double-clicking on them.

Figure 9.6 The default configuration of the Objects palette includes the following sets of objects: Basic, Smart, Forms, Head, Frames, Site, Diagram, QuickTime, and SMIL.

The Inspector Palette

Objects are conFigured via the context-sensitive Inspector palette. For example, you could drag and drop a Table object from the Basic set of the Objects palette onto a page, and then set its attributes, such as the number of rows and columns or its width and height, via the Inspector palette. The Inspector palette will change according to whatever object is currently selected so that you can set the attributes for that particular object (see Figures 9.7 through 9.9). You can tell which object is selected by reading the label in the lower-left corner of the Inspector palette.

Figure 9.7 The Inspector palette offers attributes for the currently selected object. This Figure shows a Table object selected.

Figure 9.8 The Inspector palette attributes with a
Smart Object selected.

Figure 9.9 The Inspector palette attributes with a file selected.