What You Can Do With Studio 8 - MACROMEDIA STUDIO 8-EXPLORING STUDIO 8 Manual

10 Introduction

What you can do with Studio 8

Studio 8 includes five Macromedia products: Dreamweaver, Flash,
Fireworks, Contribute, and FlashPaper. This section provides a brief
overview of each product.
This section covers the following topics:
"What you can do with Dreamweaver" on page 10
"What you can do with Flash" on page 11
"What you can do with Fireworks" on page 12
"What you can do with Contribute" on page 13
"What you can do with FlashPaper" on page 13
What you can do with Dreamweaver
The visual editing features in Macromedia Dreamweaver let you quickly
create web pages without writing a line of code. You can view all your site
elements or assets and drag them from an easy-to-use panel directly into a
document. You can streamline your development workflow by creating and
editing images in Macromedia Fireworks or another graphics application,
and then import them directly into Dreamweaver. Dreamweaver also
provides tools that make it easy to add Macromedia Flash assets to
web pages.
In addition to drag-and-drop features that help you build web pages,
Dreamweaver provides a full-featured coding environment that includes
code-editing tools such as code coloring, tag completion, a coding toolbar,
and code collapse. Also provided is language reference material about
Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), JavaScript, ColdFusion Markup Language
(CFML), and other languages. Macromedia Roundtrip HTML technology
imports your hand-coded HTML documents without reformatting the
code; you can then reformat code with your preferred formatting style.
Dreamweaver also lets you build dynamic, database-driven web
applications using server technologies such as CFML, ASP.NET, ASP, JSP,
and PHP. If you prefer working with XML data, Dreamweaver provides
tools that let you easily create XSLT pages, attach XML files, and display
XML data on your web pages.