Web design with Macromedia Studio MX 2004

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Web Design with Macromedia Studio MX 2004 provides beginning designers with a step-by-step process for creating a Web site with the new Macromedia Studio MX 2004. Structured around a good Web development cycle of plan, design, build, test, and maintain, the book starts by planning the site and creating a wire frame with Freehand MX, along with vector graphics for use in Macromedia Flash MX 204 and Fireworks MX 2004. From there it moves to Flash, where the designer learns how to create dynamic content for use on the Web. Next, Fireworks is used to manipulate graphics and create Web page designs. Then the content is brought into Dreamweaver MX 2004 and the site is launched. Throughout the book, the focus is not only on how to use each tool, but how to use them together to create a seamless workflow. The site used to illustrate these concepts and tools is not a sample site, but an actual live photography store Web site (www.jdukesphoto.com). All of the tools needed to create and test the Web site are on the book's CD-ROM, including trial versions of the Macromedia products covered in the book, as well as the Open Source server Technologies (Apache, MySQL, PHO, and PERL).

Author Notes

Eric Hunley (Tucson, AZ) is an instructor and course developer at the University of Arizona Extended University

Acknowledgments	p. xxi
Introduction	p. xxiii
About Macromedia	p. xxiii
Purpose of This Book	p. xxiv
Scope of This Book	p. xxiv
Summary	p. xxv
1 An Introduction to the Web Server Process and the Design Cycle	p. 1
What Is Server Side?	p. 1
What Is Client Side?	p. 2
Fitting It Together	p. 2
Web Protocols	p. 4
What Happens to the Request?	p. 6
Macromedia Studio MX 2004 and the Design Cycle	p. 7
Summary	p. 9
2 Taking the Macromedia FreeHand MX Tour	p. 11
Wireframes and Storyboards	p. 12
Raster Graphics	p. 13
Vector Graphics	p. 14
Raster or Vector Graphics--Which Should You Use?	p. 15
Exploring the Interface	p. 17
The Tools Panel	p. 19
Creating Paths	p. 19
Creating Shapes with FreeHand MX	p. 36
Path Manipulation Tools	p. 45
Summary	p. 49
3 Exploring the Object Panel and Looking at More Effects	p. 51
The Object Panel	p. 51
Using Fills	p. 54
Using Strokes	p. 60
Live Effects	p. 66
Strokes and Fills	p. 69
Effects Tools	p. 71
Path Operations	p. 84
Creating Flash Animations	p. 86
Exporting HTML	p. 87
Assets	p. 87
Summary	p. 89
4 Designing Frameworks in FreeHand MX	p. 91
Creating a Wireframe	p. 91
Publishing in FreeHand	p. 107
Pages and Layers in FreeHand	p. 112
Exporting Images	p. 115
Publish as HTML	p. 115
Summary	p. 117
5 Introduction to Macromedia Flash MX 2004	p. 119
A Brief History of Flash	p. 119
Looking at the Interface	p. 121
The Timeline	p. 123
The Tools Panel	p. 127
The Property Inspector	p. 128
Panel Sets	p. 130
Contextual Menus	p. 134
Using the Tools Panel	p. 134
Summary	p. 157
6 Tweens and Layers	p. 159
Frame-by-Frame Animation	p. 159
Motion Tweening	p. 162
Using Shape Tweens	p. 181
Working with Mask Layers	p. 184
Guide Layers	p. 187
Layer Options	p. 188
Summary	p. 190
7 Symbols, Timeline Effects, and Interactivity	p. 191
Graphic Symbols	p. 191
Movie Clips	p. 197
Buttons	p. 205
Timeline Effects	p. 208
Adding Interactivity with Behaviors	p. 210
Summary	p. 221
8 Introduction to ActionScript and Programming Concepts	p. 223
The Actions Panel	p. 223
Code Comments	p. 225
Variables	p. 226
Operators	p. 236
Conditionals	p. 240
Loops	p. 244
Functions	p. 248
Objects	p. 250
External Variables	p. 252
Events	p. 254
Button, Movie Clip, and Text Field Properties	p. 262
Movie Clip Methods	p. 264
Code Hinting with Object Names	p. 264
Applying ActionScript	p. 265
Summary	p. 277
9 Saving Flash Movies and Creating Flash Web Sites	p. 279
Making a Flash Web Site	p. 280
Publish Settings	p. 287
Optimization with the Bandwidth Profiler	p. 294
Summary	p. 296
10 Exploring Macromedia Fireworks MX 2004	p. 297
Creating a New Document	p. 297
Saving in Windows	p. 306
Exploring the Tools	p. 308
Strokes	p. 308
Fills	p. 309
Select Tools	p. 311
Vector Tools	p. 312
Bitmap Tools	p. 321
Live Effects	p. 331
Fireworks MX 2004 or FreeHand MX?	p. 332
Summary	p. 332
11 Creating Content with Fireworks MX 2004	p. 333
Creating the Layout	p. 334
Adding Hotspots	p. 338
Adding More Content	p. 340
Creating Buttons, Pop-Up Menus, and Other Behaviors	p. 341
Summary	p. 363
12 Exporting, Optimizing, and More Effects in Fireworks MX 2004	p. 365
All About Slices	p. 366
Animations in Fireworks MX 2004	p. 376
Importing Graphics	p. 385
Optimizing	p. 386
Exporting HTML	p. 399
Summary	p. 402
13 An HTML Primer	p. 403
History of HTML	p. 403
HTML Structure	p. 404
The Future with XML and XHTML	p. 432
Summary	p. 435
14 Exploring Dreamweaver MX 2004	p. 437
Exploring the Workspace	p. 438
Creating Your Site	p. 448
Summary	p. 455
15 Creating Pages with Dreamweaver MX 2004	p. 457
Roundtrip HTML	p. 457
Setting Up Page Properties	p. 467
Adding Head Content	p. 469
Adding Text and Images to Your Page	p. 470
Using Tables	p. 482
Assets in Dreamweaver MX 2004	p. 495
Summary	p. 496
16 Site Management and More Dreamweaver Features	p. 497
Using Templates	p. 497
Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)	p. 504
Using Layers	p. 510
Adding Behaviors	p. 514
Server Behaviors	p. 517
Creating Forms	p. 518
Cleaning Up HTML	p. 523
Site Management	p. 524
Summary	p. 528
A Other Resources	p. 529
Macromedia Products	p. 529
General Web Development	p. 531
Programming Resources	p. 531
B About the CD-ROM	p. 533
System Requirements	p. 533
Installation	p. 535
C Open Source Licenses	p. 537
Apache Software License (Apache and mod_perl)	p. 537
PHP Software License	p. 538
MySQL License	p. 540
Index	p. 549

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