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Once you are done designing your site in GoLive the process is far from over. We need to check to make sure that we don't have any errors and we need to make sure that there are consistencies across browsers when people are looking at our page. Let me show you just a few tips here. I'm going to go down back to our Site window here. And on the right hand side where our server is, there's a tab called Errors. Click on that and you'll see problems or potential problems with your website. Once of the problems I have here is that I have what's called a Orphan file. This photo that we used down here of me getting eaten by a camel almost is called "Chadalmosteaten.jpg. And what an Orphan file is, is a file that GoLive can find but it's not in our Site folder that we created when we created this website. So basically, it's still going to work ok but it's telling us, "hey bonehead you made a bad mistake by not putting this in your Site folder." So you might want to do that now and then re-link it so you have all of your elements in the same spot. In this area you would also find warnings for missing files. If you moved or deleted or renamed a file in your Site file and GoLive can no longer find it. This is where you would have that error as well. And of course all we'd have to do to remedy this is just copy this file and put it in the Site folder with the rest of our content. Now once you fix all the errors you still need to test your page or your pages in different browsers. To do that, I just have to go up to this button here and go to this dropdown. Hold that button down. And I have the choice to do a live rendering which basically is GoLive mimicking of a real web browser kind of like the preview that we were working with earlier. And this small screen rendering we don't have to worry about here. This is for mobile content - testing mobile content. And I have here three different browsers in which to test my browsing. Now you probably won't see those in yours. We have to first go to this Edit. And basically this will take us to this same area of the Preferences called Browsers where we can add additional browsers. Again, if you don't want to get into this dropdown you can just go to the Edit Preferences menu on Windows or you can go to the GoLive menu on the Mac. Again, by default the only browsers that should be here are live rendering and small screen rendering. And life rendering is cool because you can preview what your site actually might look like in a browser with out all the grid lines and that type of thing. But it's not super helpful because you need to see specifically what individual users are seeing. You need to be able to test it on Internet Explorer. You need to be able to test it on Firefox and other browsers that might be common at the time. So to add the new browser you could hit the Add button. And it will take you to your program files. You can navigate to the executable file for your browser. Or what I did, just hit the Find All button and it finds every browser out there, every browser on your hard drive. And GoLive did a great job of knowing where Firefox was and where Internet Explorer was and loading them up here. So once you hit Firefox and if you want to check this here and check Internet Explorer. Then it will be previewed when we select this dropdown here - preview in default browser. But if we do not check it, it will not be tested such as here in the QuickTime player. I'm going to go ahead and cancel this. And folks that's pretty much it for GoLive. I realize this was a very brief tour. But again, just like with all the other programs that we've seen so far, your already kind of knowing quite a bit about GoLive just from having gone through Photoshop, Illustrator and InDesign. For example, this Hand tool. Your probably know what that does and the Zoom tool, the Eyedropper tool, the Black Arrow Selection tool. All these things are common elements that we have seen before. And even somethings that we haven't covered. Let's say for example you had this document open and you were wondering well hey, how do I get rulers to show so I can measure where I'm at. Well guess what, all you have to do is go to the View menu just as in every other program that we have seen so far, and select Show Rulers. Same thing with type. If we selected our type here, you'll see that we have some type options; bold, italics and we can have orientation options. We can align this to the center or whatever. But these options are very similar to ones that we've already been dealing with in other Adobe programs. And that's why I'm such an Adobe-aholic. Because I love the way Adobe thinks and the way their programs integrate together. One of the last chapters in this series is devoted just to that - just to how they integrate these programs together. We're going to talk specifically about how they integrate InDesign and GoLive. There's a great feature for taking your InDesign compositions and bringing them over into GoLive. It's phenomenal. Now again, the world of web design is a huge one, definitely more than we could even scratch the surface of in this training series. If you'd like to learn a little bit more my brother Todd Perkins, who's a published author and expert as well, you'll find on VTC has a few titles there. He's a great dynamic trainer. Really good at instructing and teaching people about web design and as soon as I get a chance I'm going to definitely take one of his classes myself. And so I recommend checking out his training. He explains things very well. And now we are going to move on to another freakish program in the Creative Suite. It's different than everything that we have seen so far. And that is Adobe Acrobat.

Tutorial Information

Course: Adobe CS2 Power Projects
Author: Chad Perkins
SKU: 33760
ISBN: 1-933736-82-8
Release Date: 2007-05-17
Duration: 8 hrs / 111 lessons
Work Files: Yes
Captions: For Online University members only
Compatibility: Vista/XP/2000, OS X, Linux
QuickTime 7, Flash 8

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