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The Bottom Line

• Comprehensive professional Web publishing tool
• New and interesting features for upgrade customers
• Allows you to create polished Web sites quickly and with ease

• Support is expensive after the initial trial
• There are a lot of products and tasks which make it challenging to learn
• The full product is fairly expensive for the novice designer

Description

• Studio 8 comes with: Dreamweaver 8, Flash Pro 8, Fireworks 8, Contribute 3, Flashpaper and more.
• It also includes downloads of Homesite + and ColdFusion developer edition.
• Runs on both Windows and Macintosh.
• Studio retails at $999 or $399 to upgrade from earlier versions of Studio.
• Workflow improvements make it much easier to move between the separate applications.
• Now you can author XML documents visually, with ease right in Dreamweaver.
• CSS layout visualization makes it easy to see where edges of things are and design more effectively.
• Zoom in on your designs to fix them down to the pixel level.
• Collapse tags in the code view to make it easier to see where problems may lie.
• Full versions of Contribute and Flashpaper make it easier to share and collaborate on files.