WRJ Design Valerie Johnson Dave Wagenknecht

Dreamweaver WRJ Design Valerie Johnson Dave Wagenknecht

agenda • Purpose • Product Family • Competitors • System Requirements and Pricing • Strengths and Weaknesses • Browser Support • Additional Information • Recommendation • Demo

purpose • Web application development • Web site management

mx family • Dreamweaver MX – Web Site Editing • Fireworks MX – Graphics Editing • Flash MX – Animation • Cold Fusion MX – Server-side scripting • FreeHand 10 – Print and web graphic design • Studio MX – Includes all of the above

competitors • Microsoft FrontPage • Microsoft Visual Studio .NET • Adobe GoLive

system requirements PC • Intel PII 300+MHz or equivalent • Windows 98, 2000, NT, ME or XP • Navigator or IE 4.0 or greater • 96 MB of available RAM (128 MB recommended) • 275 MB available disk space • 256 color monitor capable of 800 x 600 resolution (1024 x 768, millions of colors recommended)

mac system requirements • Power Mac G3 or better • Mac OS 9.1+ or Mac OS X 10.1+ • Netscape Navigator or Internet Explorer 4.0 or later • 96 MB of RAM (128 MB recommended) • 275 MB available disk space • 256 color monitor capable of 800 x 600 resolution (1024 x 768, millions of colors recommended. Thousands of colors required for OS X.)

Dreamweaver MX Commercial Version Dreamweaver MX $399 List Studio Package: $799 Web Price Range $318-$399.99 Dreamweaver MX Educational Version For personal and classroom use only $99 from Macromedia Studio Package: $199 price Also available: volume purchase agreements for both versions

demo version • Free trial for 30 days • Available at: http://www.macromedia.com/software/trial_download/

strengths • Extensive support on line • Extension library • http://dynamic.macromedia.com/bin/MM/exchange/main.jsp?product=dreamweaver • Data Driven Sites • Validation and Testing

weaknesses • Expense of Commercial version • Many features are not for casual users • Phone support is only for 90 days

browser support • Needed to run: • Netscape Navigator 4.0 or higher -- or -- • Internet Explorer 4.0 or higher • Validates: • Netscape 2.0 – 6.0 • IE 2.0 – 6.0 • Opera 2.1 – 6.0

reviews • c-net rating: 9/10 • c-net user ratings: • 87% thumbs up • 12% thumbs down

recommendation • Buy it! • It’s worth it for commercial use when creating a complicated site. • For $99 the education version is a great buy to learn a new tool.

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WRJ Design Valerie Johnson Dave Wagenknecht