GoLive Tips from the Top - Page 2

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3. Highlight Palette
GoLive 6.0 introduces a new highlighting tool that will save you time when you need to find instances of a certain tag being used. More than that, you can use it to highlight all uses of CSS statements or JavaScript code, as well. After you've played with it a while, you'll think of other ways to use it, like locating stray tags, orphaned CSS statements, link errors, or W3C validation errors.

How to do it:
1. First, open the page you want to highlight, then open the Highlight palette from the Window menu.
2. You'll see various pulldown menus that let you select whatever it is you want to highlight. Pick one and GoLive will highlight the results in the layout view.
3. For even more control over the results, switch to the Source or Outline viewing modes. The tags you wanted to find are now easy to spot.

4. Generating page thumbnails
If you're trudging along on a slower PC, you know the value of having thumbnails for your pages - after all, who has the time to open and browse through those pages when you can't remember the name of the one you're looking for? GoLive's File Inspector includes a Content tab, which offers an easy way to see a preview of graphics and web pages without opening them. Sometimes, however, pages won't display a thumbnail graphic in the Inspector. This might happen after importing Web pages created with another application, for example. If that happens to you, there are two ways to generate the missing thumbnails:

How to do it:
1. To generate thumbnails for every page in the site, select the site window, then hold the Command and Option keys (Mac) or the Control and Alt keys (Windows), and choose Site/Create Thumbnails.
2. To generate a thumbnail for a single page select the page in the Files tab of the Site window, then click the Refresh button in the Content section of the File Inspector.

5. Split Source Code View
People who haven't used GoLive since its early days like to complain that it's more for designers than coders or programmers. Look, people will point out, you can't even work in preview and source code modes at the same time. Well, those days are gone. Coders, listen up, it's time to give GoLive another look.

How to do it:
To open the split source viewing mode, open a document and click the Show/Hide button in the bottom left corner. You can also choose View/Show Split Source (Command/Control-Y) from the top menu. Hold down the Option and Alt keys when you select Split Source view (from either the button or the pulldown menu) to rotate the orientation of the two views.