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| Special Edition Using Macromedia Studio MX 2004 (Special Edition Using) | 
 enlarge | Author: Michael Hurwicz
Publisher: Que
Category: Book
List Price: $39.99
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Avg. Customer Rating:  3 reviews
Sales Rank: 1124147
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 1080
Shipping Weight (lbs): 30
Dimensions (in): 9.5 x 6.8 x 2.3
ISBN: 0789730421
Dewey Decimal Number: 005.72
UPC: 029236730420
EAN: 9780789730428
ASIN: 0789730421
Publication Date: April 10, 2004
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Product Description
Special Edition Using Macromedia Studio MX is the ultimate comprehensive reference book for users of Macromedia's suite of Web design products. Written by some of the leading experts in the Macromedia realm, the book covers everything the most demanding Studio MX user will need to know to use the products in the suite to create dynamic, visually stunning Web sites and applications. The book includes in-depth coverage of building data-enabled Web sites with Dreamweaver MX, creating Flash animations to enhance a site's interface, working with ActionScript, editing graphics with Fireworks, and drawing vector art with Freehand. Additionally, the complete text is available on the accompanying CD-ROM, along with in-depth coverage of all four products in the Studio suite. The reader has at their fingertips the equivalent of four complete reference books -- all for the price of one.
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 Not a recommended book July 7, 2005
If you want to know what features Macromedia Studio MX 2004 has, this book has that information for you. But, if you want to learn "using" this tool, it's not a good choice. In many sections, it just mentions that the tool has so and so features and it doesn't instruct you how to use them. The materials that can be free downloaded from Macromedia website are much more helpful than this commercial book. I gave it up by reselling it for much cheaper - I'm still happy with it. Thanks!
 Using Macromedia Studio MX 2004 April 19, 2005
I read a lousy review on this site, and I am glad that I ordered this book in spite of the review, because if anyone has ever pulled his or her hair out over the pen tool in a vector graphics program, he or she knows to merely turn to the pages discussing this tool to find out how detailed and discernable the instructions are. This book is excellent. Too bad the bad rap from a disgruntled skim reader will prevent many others from benefitting from this very comprehensive and in-depth book.
 Deep Flash & Dreamweaver, shallow Freehand & Fireworks September 23, 2004
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
This book touts itself as being "the only MX book you'll ever need." So why was there such shallow coverage for Freehand and Fireworks?
I bought this book from the bookstore and in glancing through it, it appeared it had everything I would need. And for web page stuff, it does - above & beyond. However, when it came time for me to work on a new logo, and of course along with that comes brochures, business cards, letterhead, etc. I then discovered that the book doesn't even touch on these subjects, nor does it do a decent job explaining how to use the "Xtra" tools for working with paths (among many other things) it just tells what they are and what they do (by name). The internal Help applet does a better job than this book does! There's a tutorial on how on the author designed a logo, but that's pretty much where the topic on Freehand ends. Desktop publishing & prepress people beware!
Nevertheless, it's a "good book" overall.. Three stars.. And I appreciated the depth in terms of Actionscript, XML, and ColdFusion architecture and the CFML / SQL coding primer.
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