Deborah Shadovitz started out the meeting showing several of the new features in the just released Macintosh Operating System, OS X 10.3 also known as Panther. Deborah has a feature article on Panther in the January, 2004 MacAddict Magazine which is extremely informative and explains how much time one saves by switching to Panther because of its improvements.

Deborah, then switched gears and showed the benefits of the updated GoLive CS. The biggest improvement in CS is the CSS style sheets that give a real time preview of how the style looks in the dialog box before the style is applied to the page. The settings can be set for text, font, box, background and border attributes. Adobe also improved the method of creating these style sheets to make it more accessible for the average user. Deborah than showed the tight integration between GoLive with Illustrator and Photoshop with smart objects. When you place a smart file into GoLive, GoLive creates a new version of the file that's optimized for the Web and maintains a link to the source file, and automatically updates the object whenever you modify the source file. She demoed this effect on a photo of her mom and dad from their wedding and it worked brilliantly. Another new feature of GoLive CS is it's tighter integration with InDesign CS. InDesign CS has a "Package for GoLive feature, which uses XML to export the content of a document for use in GoLive CS. Once the Package is imported into GoLive, a window previews the InDesign CS document. You can now drag text and graphics objects from the preview window onto a GoLive CS Web page. Pretty slick!

Deborah is now offering hands on 1-day classes for $99 in GoLive CS. Classes are held when there are groups of 3 or more, usually in Los Angeles. Deborah's classes are a great deal, as a small class enables you to pretty much have private tutoring. If you are interested, email Deborah from her website, http://www.shadovitz.com. Provide your contact information: Whether you're an absolute beginner, have used another web application before, are intermediate with GoLive, etc. Also tell her whether you have an iBook, PowerBook, or laptop to bring, and if you own Adobe GoLive yet. Deb will also teach Mac OS classes for groups of 3 or more when you form your own group.

There wasn't a minimum $20 interest in holding a raffle (we had an Academic version of GoLIve 6 and the Adobe GoLive 5 Bible authored by Deborah Shadovitz) so those prizes will be available in a future raffle.