Chapter 3: Web Development Workflow; About The Web Development Workflow; This Chapter Contains The Following Sections: About The Web Development Workflow - MACROMEDIA STUDIO 8-EXPLORING STUDIO 8 Manual

CHAPTER 3
Web Development
Workflow
This chapter demonstrates how the individual components of Macromedia
Studio 8-Macromedia Dreamweaver 8, Macromedia Flash 8,
Macromedia Fireworks 8, Macromedia Contribute 3, and Macromedia
FlashPaper 2-make up a comprehensive suite for designing, developing,
and maintaining interactive online experiences, as part of a typical web
development workflow.
This chapter contains the following sections:
About the web development workflow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .121
Planning your website . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122
Setting up the development environment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123
Planning page design and layout . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125
Creating content assets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128
Assembling, testing, and deploying . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130
Maintaining and updating your site . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133
About the web development
workflow
A typical web development workflow involves the following stages:
Planning the site, which includes defining the site's strategy or goals,
targeting an audience, and determining your site's data requirements
Setting up the development environment, which includes selecting
your web and application servers, defining a site with Dreamweaver,
and defining data sources
Planning page design and layout, which includes mocking up your
pages and interfaces with a drawing tool such as Fireworks, and laying
out the pages in HTML with Dreamweaver
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