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Using Macromedia Dreamweaver for eLearning & Multimedia web sites

Web Authoring and Graphics Software  

Acoll  ArcSoft Adobe   Black Magic   Blaze     Broderbund    Eveo    

Jasc    Lead  MacroMedia    MGIsoft       

Microsoft     ShockWave    TemplateMonster  Ulead  Wildform

Acoll

Smart Converter 1.7 from Acoll Software makes it easy to convert between a wide range of graphic image formats. It  supports more than 80 different formats and includes a variety of filters and special effects. You can apply 100's of special effects and convert between formats an image at a time or in batch mode.

ArcSoft

ArcSoft Funhouse is a totally fun and simple to use software program that lets you create hilarious ‘fantasy’ pictures featuring the faces of you and your friends. The program includes over 150 cool background templates to get you started and includes tools for creating your own custom templates from scanned magazine covers or downloaded celebrity snapshots. My kids love it! And they taught themselves how to use it....

Adobe products

Adobe Creative Studio - Everything for the Web Designer

Photoshop® 6.0
The world-standard image editing solution

Illustrator® 10
The industry-standard vector graphics software

GoLive® 5.0
Professional Web authoring and site management

LiveMotion™ 1.0
Turn your Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator files into interactive Web animations

DesignTeam
The online collaboration solution for creative professionals

Atmosphere™ (beta)
Transform the Web into a universe of virtual 3D worlds

14 Months FREE hosting when you purchase with PowWeb!!!

Make FLASH Easy - Wildform develops video, animation and presentation software including the Flix Flash video encoder, the Wild FX Pro video titler and text animator, the Linx easy Flash editor and the Wildform Video Library.
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MacroMedia Products

How to Use Dreamweaver

Dreamweaver 4
Make short work of Web site and HTML page production.

Flash 5
Create animated, vector-based Web content.

FreeHand 10
Create vector-based illustrations for Flash and for print.

Fireworks 4
Design and optimize Web graphics for easy integration into your site.

Dreamweaver UltraDev 4
Develop database-driven Web applications in a visual environment (using ASP, JSP and CFML).

Director 8.5 Shockwave Studio
Develop magnetic Internet destinations and powerful multimedia.

HomeSite 5
The HTML editor of choice for hand-coders.

Sitespring
Manage Web site production with approachable team collaboration, file management and client communications.

ColdFusion 5 UltraDev 4 Studio
Develop ColdFusion applications in a visual and code-centric environment. 

JRun 3 UltraDev 4 Studio
Accelerate development of Java Web applications using JavaServer pages.

ColdFusion Studio 5
Build ColdFusion applications in a code-centric environment.

BlackMagic - www.black-and-white-to-color.com

If you've ever tried to colorize black and white images with Photoshop or for that matter any graphics program you know it can be time consuming and the results are rarely satisfactory, especially skin tones. Well now you can save yourself hours with BlackMagic. Need to colorize a complex object like a carpet ? this could take days with Photoshop, black magic will do it in minutes, even a child could use it to give results that a professional graphic artist would be proud of. 

Blaze Media Pro ($50) is  a powerful, all-in-one multimedia software application supporting playback of all popular media formats, audio and video playlist, audio and video conversions, video construction and decompiling, audio editing and recording, audio and data CD recording, video processing (average, brightness, contrast, gamma, edge enhance, sharpen, soften, resizing, resample, dither, add border), video capture, media management, and much more!.

World first automatic digital photo album - FlipAlbum - FlipAlbum is a complete hassle-free photo album software. It creates automatically a 3D page-flipping album of any folder complete with thumbnails and index. Users can easily edit, present and locate their pictures in the computers. See Re view

Broderbund ExtremeMedia Digital Studio ($80)- in addition to doing  video capture and editing (titling, effects and transitions), it provides strong photo and image management, enhancement  and editing capabilities. It can also  rip and edit audio files, including converting WMA, WAV and MP3s; and also burning video productions, audio collections, and still image slide shows to CD. It can even create custom CD labels and jewel case inserts. 

Eveo Publisher

According to Eveo, they have introduced the world’s most user-friendly Web video and rich media publishing tool, Eveo Publisher 2.0. With its intuitive drag and drop interface, Eveo Publisher 2.0 lets anyone —even individuals lacking design and engineering expertise— quickly create and manage attractive custom Web video presentations and emails, integrated and synchronized with other rich media elements. Companies such as Sony Music and Johnson & Johnson have signed on as Eveo customers.

Eveo Publisher 2.0 lets users add video to text, graphics, slides, audio, multimedia, Flash, PowerPoint, polling, and other applications. Providing target audiences with immersive viewing experiences. 

NetStudio Easy Web Graphics - Make great buttons, banners and other Web graphics in 10 minutes with NetStudio Easy Web Graphics! Get a quick start with step-by-step wizards and templates. Easy to use, works just like Microsoft Office.

 Jasc PaintShop Pro 7

Long the leader in shareware graphics program, Paint Shop Pro has evolved to become one of the favorites for ease of use and performance. Enables a wide range of image editing and conversion functions including web graphics. About $80 list

Jasc Photo Album 5 for simple yet powerful photo management and basic editing - the new version adds some exciting new features like an improved user interface, new ways to view and find your images, more special effects and filters, improve output selections and a new image archiving feature called PhotoSafe. more

  Lead

LEAD Capture & Convert is a very cool product for capturing and converting video, audio and graphics programs and files.  In many ways this is a video editing program which does everything except edit and trim clips – you can capture video, add effects and text, and then output it in a variety of formats as well as extract still images from video and convert video, audio and graphic files. It includes a bunch of effects filters that are not available on other video and graphics packages. more

MGIsoft 

PhotoSuite Platinum Edition
Powerful, easy to use tools for editing, organizing and sharing photos

Reality Studio
The fastest way to build totally immersive Web sites.

Photovista Virtual Tour
The complete suite for creating interactive Web sites with engaging, high-resolution content.

Photovista Panorama
Stitch photos into seamless 360° panoramas for the Web.

Zoom Image Server
E-commerce infrastructure software for serving high-resolution images which drive revenue.

Photovista 3D Objects
Create 3D Image Objects for the Web! Great for online catalogs, product demonstrations and more!

ShockWave

The ShockWave PhotoJam3 Pro tool is inexpensive, easy to use and rock solid. It enables you to easily create digital slide shows with up to 100 images each. You can add music, special effects and transitions. See review

Microsoft  - FrontPage is one of the most common programs used to create web sites, at least those using Windows computers. FrontPage is easy to get started with but advanced users will definitely need to buy a manual.  If you are using FrontPage, make sure your ISP supports FrontPage Extensions. Click here to buy  Microsoft FrontPage 2002 Upgrade

Template Monster

Easy web design and authoring by using web site templates. Yes it is cheating but it works. Save money, save time - more

Ulead 

Ulead PhotoImpact 8 (Highly recommended)

A very affordable, powerful and simple to use program for capturing, managing and editing images and graphics. It is our favorite here at Internet Video Magazine and we have found it can do almost everything the more expensive/more powerful Adobe Photoshop 6 can do, but much easier and simpler. We use the SmartSaver module to convert jpgs, tiffs and bmps to small and lightweight gifs for posting to the web site. I have used Photo Impact in all its various versions and have never had to open up the manual to figure things out. The user interface is very intuitive and simple to understand. OrderPhotoImpact 7 now

MySite - 2.0 gives you all the tools to create a professional Web site complete with dynamic effects, plus free Web hosting for a year, all for under $50! Get the FREE Trial

Edit and Host Your Web Site

• Create advanced pages without knowing HTML

• Includes a specially built PhotoImpact 7 Web page import module

• One year of free Web page hosting. A $150 value!

• Built-in publishing module (FTP) for easy upload to your Web site

Other Ulead Image Editing programs including  Photo Express,  COOL 3D, GIF Animator, and Smart Saver Pro.