Macromedia Studio MX 2003 for Mac

by Macromedia

Product Features

• complete website production software

Product Details

• Shipping Weight: 1.6 pounds
• ASIN: B000066EUQ
• Date first available at Amazon.com: August 29, 2006
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #6,909 in Software (See Top 100 in Software)
  • #1 in Software > Web Development > Web Site Hosting > Application Servers
  • #5 in Software > Web Development > Web Effects > Objects
  • #10 in Software > Web Development > Web Effects > Animation
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

Product Description

Amazon.com 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 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

Product Description

Macromedia Studio MX 2003 can be registered and upgraded . This is the full retail version not an Educational, NFR, or OEM version.

Macromedia Studio MX 2003 is the essential suite of integrated tools for developing the full spectrum of Internet solutions, from simple HTML to the emerging class of rich Internet applications. Macromedia Studio MX combines the latest versions of market-leading Macromedia tools to provide developers with a streamlined, integrated product family focused on increasing developer productivity and return on investment. Macromedia Studio MX includes Macromedia Dreamweaver MX, Macromedia Flash MX, Macromedia Fireworks MX, Macromedia FreeHand 10, and Macromedia Flash Player 6. Macromedia Studio MX delivers a completely integrated experience. It offers product integration, common user-interface standards, and a seamless workflow to accelerate developer productivity. The consistent user interface elements include color management, drawing tools, code editing, a common property inspector, and panel management. Part Number WSM060D000.

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Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The all-around solution for web design., May 10, 2002

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Michael A. Brown "maniacmedia" (Salt Lake City, UT USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Macromedia Studio MX 2003 for Mac (CD-ROM)

Dreamweaver MX, Fireworks MX, and Flash MX are the perfect trio for web design/development professionals. With the more seamless integration which MacroMedia has devised for this upgrade, they are even more valuable to you.

Dreamweaver provides the easiest WYSIWYG design capabilities I've found. MX also incorporates all of the features previously found in Dreamweaver UltraDev. Round-trip editing of Fireworks and Flash imports makes this your total web solution.

While I've always preferred Illustrator over FreeHand, and ColdFusion is strictly for the PC platform, the set is well worth your investment. And, if you're a fan of those two programs, so much the better.

5.0 out of 5 stars New Paradigm, December 19, 2002

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Michael Clark (Sacramento, CA USA) - See all my reviews

Getting from proof-of-concept to production has never been simpler, more powerful, or more compelling. Simply revolutionary. One of the most powerful and pervasive development suites I've seen or used. The well-ordered convergence of technologies in StudioMX is truly inspired. Now data logic and structure, business logic and rules, and presentation logic can be clearly distinct from each other for cleaner, more succinct development methods, and more closely integrated for producing more powerful rich media network applications than ever before.