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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 006.786
EAN: 9780321336200
ISBN: 0321336208
Label: Macromedia Press
Manufacturer: Macromedia Press
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 560
Publication Date: 2006-02-10
Publisher: Macromedia Press
Studio: Macromedia Press
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Spotlight customer reviews:
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Summary: Concise and useful
Comment: You will actually build a web site using DW 8 and Fireworks 8 and Flash. This book , although it has few errors, is a very good and through intro to web creation.
Fuddzie
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Summary: Shows you how everything works together, but not a good place to start
Comment: This was the first book I read when I was learning Dreamweaver, and I still felt a bit lost afterwards! If you don't have prior experience with Dreamweaver, I would recommend first reading a book dedicated to just Dreamweaver. Once you are comfortable with Dreamweaver, read this book, which covers Dreamweaver plus the other components of Studio 8: Flash, Fireworks, and Contribute, and shows you how they can all work together.
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Summary: Training straight from the source
Comment: 524 page book also comes with a CD filled with chapter projects that you work on throughout the book. Walk-through's, explanations, photos and screen-shots are all very helpful. Book is thorough and concise as you would expect coming straight from the source. Shop around though; I bought my copy on eBay for $18.
If you have the Studio 8 software suite, you almost NEED this book! Language is NOT high tech and easy to follow.
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Summary: The missing Studio 8 Manual
Comment: Another must have book from what is now Adobe Press. You can pretty much forgo the small book that shipped with S8, and or if you bought S8 through a download you wouldn't miss much. This book is what every S8 user should be budgeting for and getting as a get started and whats new. This is a great starter and refresher course material book that offers up great lessons.
Each section starts with an overview, followed by a time estimate, expected outcomes and anticipated time for the lesson. Some you may want to skip over, others covering newer material with the S8 release, you will want to get more involved with. Each lesson has associated materials in the accomanying CD so you wont have to waste time on creating items to learn with.
If you're a one person studio, you might want to have this on hand as it deals with many areas that all producers have problems with. Let's face it, a good programmer is seldom great with a graphics tool and vice versa. This book shows how to use Fireworks, Flash and integrate items (beautiful or not) with common code elements and interface with Contribute and ColdFusion.
Great for self starters and single or multi subject educational material.
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Summary: Basic
Comment: Very good book. Shows all the fundamental required to create websites. Very easy to read and understand. I would recommend it to anyone starting out in web design.
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Editorial Reviews:
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Learn by doing! Macromedia Studio 8: Training from the Source provides a comprehensive, working introduction to the most powerful Web design and development suite available. Starting from the ground up, you’ll build two Web sites. In the first half of the book, you’ll combine the strengths of Macromedia Flash, Fireworks, and Dreamweaver to create an attractive, yet maintainable site. In the second half of the book, you’ll focus on building a powerful and dynamic user experience by combining Macromedia Flash, Dreamweaver, Contribute, FlashPaper, and ColdFusion. The enclosed CD-ROM contains all the files you need to complete the projects, plus completed files for you to compare with your results and use as models for future projects.
You learn how to:
- Optimize graphics in Fireworks, balancing quality and file size
- Design in a standards-compliant, all XHTML-CSS workflow
- Insert and format text, images, and CSS layers in Dreamweaver
- Master multimedia concepts, such as timelines, libraries, and file architecture
- Create Flash animations, using frame-by-frame and tweened animation techniques
- Create functional buttons using Flash symbols and ActionScript
- Integrate video into Flash projects
- Use ColdFusion to display live database data on a Web page
- Send data in and out of Flash movies to server scripts and databases
- Leverage the power of Contribute to maintain, distribute, and control Web content and FlashPaper to create, share, distribute, and use documents in a secure, universal format
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