Macromedia Software and Our Templates

The majority of our website templates can be edited or customized using Macromedia Software. Macromedia has developed the best, by far, tools for creating and maintaining Websites.

Dreamweaver is what is called a WYSIWYG editor meaning "What You See Is What You Get". It is like a word document, you do not need to know anything about HTML and Web Design to use this editor and it is FAST to get your Website up and running!

Macromedia Dreamweaver

Macromedia Flash

Flash Professional 8 is the industry's most advanced authoring environment for creating interactive websites, digital experiences and mobile content.

With Flash Professional 8, creative professionals design and author interactive content rich with video, graphics, and animation for truly unique, engaging websites, presentations or mobile content. Create compelling 2D animations with the tool that brought animation to the Web.

Macromedia Studio 8

MacroMedia launches Studio 8 - Upgrade now for $399. With the latest releases of Dreamweaver, Flash Professional, Fireworks, Contribute and FlashPaper, Studio 8 offers web designers and developers a new level of expressiveness, efficiency and simplified workflow to create websites, interactive experiences and mobile content.

Studio 8 offers the broadest range of creative tools for expressiveness and creation of vibrant interactive media, websites, or applications. Use advanced graphics, text, animation, video, and audio tools with precision control and quality. From simple animated graphics to sophisticated interactive experiences, Studio 8 provides a full suite of tools for limitless creativity.

Studio 8 speeds the design, development, and maintenance process, with reliable round-tripping between Macromedia products, integration with third-party products, and key features like batch processing, batch encoding, and general performance enhancements to get projects done faster.

Why Buy Studio 8?

1. Get the complete toolset.
   Studio 8 is the essential suite for start-to-finish design, development and maintenance tools of websites, applications, games, interactive presentations, and mobile content. Studio 8 includes Flash Professional 8, Dreamweaver, Fireworks 8, Contribute 3, and FlashPaper 2—all the necessary tools to create code and easily maintain interactive projects.

2. Express creativity.
   Take interactive content to a new level, exploring advanced graphics, text tools, text rendering, animation, and video tools in Flash Professional 8. Give projects new levels of sophistication and quality. Explore 25 new effects in Fireworks 8 for fast image creation and editing. Quickly drag-and-drop video in Dreamweaver to make sites visually dynamic. From simple animated graphics to sophisticated interactive experiences, Studio 8 unleashes creativity.

3. Get more done.
   Studio 8 speeds the design, development, and maintenance process with integrated round-tripping between Macromedia products, new time-saving features like batch rendering for media assets and batch encoding for video, faster user interface workflows, and boosted integration with third-party products.

4. Pick any platform.
   Support for Windows and Mac OS X enables development and deployment on any platform. Deliver projects that support the widest range of operating systems, browsers, and server technologies. Develop applications using HTML, XHTML, XML, ColdFusion, ASP, ASP.NET, JSP, or PHP with drag-and-drop visual tools and components, code libraries, and extensive code-editing support.

5. Take advantage of industry-standard workflows and technologies.
   Studio 8 makes the best practices of web design and development available to everyone, from users working on their first website to those developing advanced web applications. Design and develop with confidence that Studio projects will integrate with and support the latest technologies, platforms, operating systems, and industry standards from CSS and XML to the latest Flash Player 8 client runtime.

6. Bring video to the web.
   Studio 8 makes integrating video into projects easier than ever. Drag and drop Flash Video in Dreamweaver 8 to quickly incorporate video to websites and applications. The new high-quality video encoder in Flash Professional 8 is integrated (or works standalone) for distributed batch encoding. New run-time support for Alpha channels, embedded cue points in Flash Video files, and the improved, easily-skinnable video playback component will engage more viewers. Going from on-screen to online is effortless using many nonlinear editing systems that export natively to the Flash Video format.

7. Maximize reach.
   Deliver rich content efficiently and consistently with the Flash standard file format (SWF); its structure (and compact size) is optimized for streaming to web users at all connection speeds. The Macromedia Flash Player, installed on over 98% of desktops globally reaches the widest possible audience. Studio 8 parallels the introduction of Flash Player 8, which now hosts more interactive features, lightweight experiences, better performance, and easy auto-updating for the ultimate viewing experience.

8. Plays well with others.
   In addition to its integrated workflows across Macromedia products, Studio 8 supports optimized workflows with third-party applications. Import graphical elements, EPS and PDF files from Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, or Creative Suite. Add content from Microsoft Office products with design accuracy using the improved copy and paste in Dreamweaver or use FlashPaper to convert Microsoft files into PDF or FlashPaper files with one click. Easily work in a family of design and development applications using powerful import/export capabilities.

9. Go mobile.
   Use Studio 8 to take the web experience farther and create content for millions of mobile handheld devices and phones. Author, test, and preview mobile content using the advanced authoring environment in Flash Professional 8, complete with an interactive emulator for Flash Lite.

10. Join a developer community millions strong.
    Benefit from extensive Studio 8 product resources including the Studio Development Center, developer certification programs, training and seminars, user forums, and independent community support sites. Enrich your copy of Dreamweaver, Fireworks, and Flash with thousands of free downloadable extensions from the Macromedia Exchange.

Maintaining Websites with Contribute

Contribute 3 redefines web publishing, making it an activity open to everybody, every day. It is the easiest way to maintain and update content on existing websites, requiring no training or knowledge of HTML. Powerful, practical controls allow site administrators to define who can publish and who is limited to only edit and send pages to others for review and approval. Business users and subject-matter experts can update web content without risk of breaking site standards or application functionality.

Contribute 3 and the Contribute Publishing Services integrate tightly with Studio 8 to provide everything your business needs to design, develop, and maintain content to the web.

Advantages of Using Contribute with Dreamweaver

Powered by the same market-leading technology as Dreamweaver, Contribute 3 is the best way to keep web content current and relevant.

Contribute integrates closely with Dreamweaver 8