| In this chapter What's New in Studio MX? 2 Who Should Read This Book? 3 How to Use This Book 4 Conventions Used in This Book 6 Macromedia Studio MX 2004 is the latest version of a product suite that includes Dreamweaver MX 2004, Flash MX 2004, Fireworks MX 2004, FreeHand MX, and ColdFusion MX 6.1 Developer Edition. Dreamweaver MX is the leading professional Web development tool, used for creating all kinds of Web sites. Flash started years ago as a tool for creating simple Web animations, and has evolved into a development environment for Internet applications, whether they involve interactivity, rich media such as video, or database access. In addition to its intrinsic capabilities, Flash gains strength from the fact that it is the dominant authoring tool for the Flash Player, which is not only the most popular rich media plug-in, but the most widely installed browser plug-in of any sort . Fireworks MX is a graphics editor optimized for the Web, focusing on bitmaps but also supporting vector graphics. FreeHand MX is a vector graphics drawing program. ColdFusion MX turns your current Web server into a database server. Together, these five programs form a powerful, flexible, integrated suite for developing Internet applications. | 