Previewing pages

You can preview your Web pages and test your links directly in Adobe GoLive. You can preview QuickTime movies, animated GIFs, or any other plug-in media items that Adobe GoLive supports. The preview approximates what your page looks like when it's finally published on the Web.

In addition to previewing your page in Adobe GoLive, you should always preview it using a variety of browsers, browser versions, and platforms. You'll need to use browsers to determine potential browser differences and to preview JavaScript, DHTML, Macromedia Shockwave animations, or other items for which Adobe GoLive doesn't provide native support. If desired, you can launch a browser from within Adobe GoLive by first adding browsers to the Show in Browser menu.

Note: If you are using Adobe GoLive for Windows, you need to install Microsoft Internet Explorer before you can preview pages in Adobe GoLive.

To preview your page using Adobe GoLive:

1 Make sure that Preview Mode is activated in the Modules Preferences.

To activate the Preview Mode, choose Edit > Preferences, click Modules in the left pane of the Preferences dialog box, select Preview Mode, and click OK.

2 Click the Layout Preview tab in the document window.

To check your page layout, scroll the document window. To test your links, click all of the hot spots on your page. (In Mac OS, Adobe GoLive opens each referenced page in its own window.)

You can also preview your page in Layout view or Layout Preview using the Adobe GoLive View Controller. Choose Window > View Controller. In the View Controller, choose an option from the Root CSS pop-up menu to view a simulated preview of your page in a Web browser for Windows or Mac OS. For more information on using the View Controller, see Selecting viewing options.

To add browsers to the Show in Browser menu:

1 Make sure that each browser is installed on your hard disk and that all plug-ins you need for previewing are placed in the browser's Plug-ins folder (or any other location your browser uses for multimedia extensions).

2 Choose Edit > Preferences, and click the Browsers icon in the left pane of the Preferences dialog box.

3 Do one of the following:

To add all browsers on your hard disk to the browser list, click Find All.

To add a single browser, click Add. Then select the browser, and click Open (Windows), or click Add and then click Done (Mac OS).

4 Select one or more browsers in the scrolling window that you want to be launched when you click the Show in Browser button () on the toolbar or choose Special > Show in Default Browser.

Note: Most browsers only allow you to open one version at a time. For example, you can open Netscape Navigator and Microsoft Internet Explorer at the same time, but not Netscape Navigator 3.0 and 4.0.

When two or more types of browsers are selected in the Browsers preferences, such as Navigator and Internet Explorer, a generic browser icon appears on the toolbar. When only a single type of browser is selected, such as Navigator 3.0 and 4.0, the program icon of that browser appears on the toolbar.

5 To delete a browser from the scrolling window, select it and click Remove.

6 Click OK.

To preview your page in a browser:

1 Add browsers to the Show in Browser menu.

2 Do one of the following:

To preview the page in the browser or browsers that you have selected in the Browsers preferences, click the Show in Browser button (

) on the toolbar, or choose Special > Show in Default Browser.

To preview the page in a single browser, click the triangle in the lower right corner of the Show in Browser button on the toolbar, and then choose the desired browser from the pop-up menu. Or, choose a browser from the Special > Show in Browser menu.

Show in Browser button and pop-up menu

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