Macromedia Dreamweaver is a powerful WYSIWYG website development tool which is supported by all TotalRoute.net hosting services. It offer an intuitive environment for building cross-platform sites that generates HTML code neatly and efficiently. Dreamweaver is a favorite of multimedia designers, since it easily integrates with other Macromedia applications, like Flash and Shockwave.
Macromedia Dreamweaver 8
Macromedia Dreamweaver 8 is the best web site development software/tool available today. If you are a professional web designer looking for a rapid application tool to design web sites, this is your best bet. We've been using Macromedia for a long time and highly recommend it to everyone who is interested in learning web site development. This tool generates good HTML code for you, (so you don't have to be an expert HTML programmer to develop a web site).
Dreamweaver generates code for forms and to link up to a database using almost all popular technologies like PHP, ASP, XHTML and .NET. Cool design stuff possible using Dreamweaver includes rollovers, css styles, server side includes, templates and much more. Dreamweaver inbuilt extensions and downloaded extensions (functions created by other developers) are also supported and are a big help especially when time is a constraint and you cannot afford to build the functionality from scratch.
Macromedia Fireworks 8
We highly recommend using Macromedia Fireworks 8 for a fantastically designed and optimized web sites. Fireworks is a specialized tool for web developers. We use this tool to design web site layouts, logos, graphic designing etc. Fireworks is also great for optimizing images and exporting them in the gif or jpeg format. Cool features in Fireworks include making animated gifs, swap images, rollovers, horizontal and vertical drop-down menus or flyouts, auto shapes and many other cool stuff.
Macromedia Flash Professional 8
Macromedia Flash Professional 8 is the best software to use for web site animation. Flash is very very popular in web designing because you can do fantastic animations while still keeping the file size low and so that sites can load fast. There is also a huge online community of Flash developers so if you have questions or need resources like articles, tutorials, sound loops, flash files - it is all readily available on the Internet. The immensely advanced features of Flash Actionscripting has given an absolutely new angle to web animation.
Flash Professional 8 is specially made for advanced ActionScript programmers. If you are not too keen on doing programming you can go in for the Flash Basic 8 instead of Flash Professional 8.
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