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- Students save over £480 off the standard version
- Note that the student retail product does not contain any software. Each product contains an order form, which you fill out and post to Macromedia together with proof of your eligibility. Proof of student eligibility will be required by the manufacturer. See Manufacturer's Description below for details
- Integrated suite of software tools for creating rich, Internet applications
- Work in a familiar, customizable environment
- Includes Flash MX, Dreamweaver MX, Fireworks MX, FreeHand and Flash Player
- Create each element of the Web production process
- Use pre-coded HTML objects, Flash components, and templates
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Product Description
Amazon.co.uk Review
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 optimising graphics. You also get FreeHand 10, a full-featured vector image editor, and Windows ColdFusion MX for dynamic Web applications. There is no doubting the quality of the individual products. Dreamweaver MX is a visual Web editor that generates highly compatible code, and also includes 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 to existing graphics, adding text effects or other elements, and optimising the results for Web display. These three are the core Studio MX products and the suite is 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 round-trip support. You can embed Fireworks graphics and Flash movies in Dreamweaver pages without losing any information, so that you can later reopen an element in its original application with all its features intact.
The MX range differs from earlier Macromedia products by targeting application development as well as design. For this you need to build on a Web application server, such as the bundled ColdFusion MX, or one of the other supported platforms including ASP, ASP .Net, PHP or any Java Enterprise Edition server. You can connect to databases through JDBC, OLEDB, or .Net data providers, depending on the server platform being used. Dreamweaver MX is more developer-friendly than previous versions, with an enhanced code editor incorporating many of the features of HomeSite, Macromedia's code-centric Web page designer. Although ColdFusion MX has its own tag language, called ColdFusion Markup Language, it generates Java code that can be deployed on any of the leading Java application servers. This also enables Java developers to extend ColdFusion with custom tags and components. In effect, the combination of Dreamweaver and ColdFusion provides an easy way into dynamic, Java-based Web development. As an alternative to ColdFusion, support for Microsoft .Net is a little less comprehensive, but still good, and includes visual designers for the key ASP .Net server-side controls.
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 has support for Web services, and the Studio bundle makes it relatively easy to set up ColdFusion to supply Web services, and Flash to consume them. 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. In addition, ColdFusion itself can consume Web services hosted on other platforms. Taking everything together, Studio MX is an essential development tool for ColdFusion as well as a great bundle for any Web designer. --Tim Anderson
Eligibility
This bundle is available to all students enrolled in a school, college or university, on a full-time or part-time basis, attending courses that award qualifications recognised by the Department of Education & Employment in the UK and the Department of Education in Ireland. The bundle is also available to all teachers teaching in schools, colleges or universities.
Note that the student retail product does not contain any software. Each product contains an order form, which you fill out and post to Macromedia together with proof of your eligibility. When your eligibility has been approved, the manufacturer will dispatch the software directly to you. There is no upgrade path from this Studio MX to any individual components upon release of new versions. The product is not for commercial use.
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