Binding: CD-ROM
Brand: Macromedia
EAN: 0044431477031
Format: CD-ROM
Weight: 300 hundredths-pounds
Label: Macromedia
Manufacturer: Macromedia
Packaged Height: 69 hundredths-inches
Packaged Length: 384 hundredths-inches
Packaged Weight: 200 hundredths-pounds
Packaged Width: 315 hundredths-inches
Platform: Macintosh
Publisher: Macromedia
Release Date: 2002-06-11
Studio: Macromedia
Product Description:
Studio MX is the ideal bundle for professional Web designers, bringing together Dreamweaver MX for page design, Flash MX for animation and interactivity, and Fireworks MX for editing and optimizing graphics. Users also receive FreeHand 10, a full-featured vector image editor. As for the quality of the individual products, Macromedia proves yet again why the company continues to earn the highest praise in its field of expertise. Dreamweaver MX is a visual Web editor that generates highly compatible code while also including useful site-management features. Flash MX is the de facto standard for Web animation, containing rich multimedia content in remarkably compact files. Fireworks is a great tool for putting the finishing touches on existing graphics, adding text effects or other elements, and optimizing the results for Web display. These three are the core Studio MX products, and the suite offers excellent value for these alone. Integration between the individual products is generally very good. It begins with the interface, which uses common elements such as dockable, collapsible panels and a dynamic property inspector, so that you can switch comfortably between products. On a technical level, the key feature is roundtrip support. You can embed Fireworks graphics and Flash movies in Dreamweaver pages without losing any information, letting you later reopen an element in its original application with all its features intact. Application development is not just a matter of server-side scripting. Flash MX also has potential as a rich client, with an interface driven by embedded JavaScript. Through a technology called Flash Remoting, Flash MX offers support for Web services. While it may seem strange to think of Flash as a rich client moving beyond the Web page, it does make some sense when you consider that it is cross-platform and very widely deployed. Taking everything together, Studio MX is an essential development tool, as well as a great bundle for any Web designer. --Tim Anderson
Customer Reviews:
1 of 1 customers found the following review helpful:
 If I could give 0 stars I would., 2003-02-25
No one running Mac OS X should buy this product until the bugs are worked out. Some of the more annoying Fireworks MX bugs: Eyedropper - when selecting a color, selects the inverse of that color, so you have to select the color, then select it again to get the correct color. Crop - If you set up your canvas to delete objects when cropping and then crop your document, it won't delete objects. Text - You cannot copy and/or paste text into or out of the program Those are all I can think of right now... but these are not all the bugs, I run into more and more every day. DO NOT BUY THIS PROGRAM. It's not worth it.
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