Page layout is one of the most important parts of web design. The term "page layout" refers to the way your page will appear in the browser, such as where menus, images, and Macromedia Flash movies will be placed. This tutorial describes how to plan page design and layout in Macromedia Dreamweaver MX. This tutorial is the eighth in a series of Macromedia Studio MX tutorials that teach you how to plan, design, create, and deploy a fully-functional website. To see all of the tutorials in the series, visit the Macromedia Studio MX page on the Macromedia Dreamweaver Support Center. A complete list of tutorials is also available at the Macromedia Designer and Developer Center.

This tutorial describes how to connect to a database when developing Macromedia ColdFusion applications with Macromedia Dreamweaver MX. This tutorial is the seventh in a series of Macromedia Studio MX tutorials that teach you how to plan, design, create, and deploy a fully-functional website. To see all of the tutorials in the series, visit the Macromedia Studio MX page on the Macromedia Dreamweaver Support Center. A complete list of tutorials is also available at the Macromedia Designer and Developer Center.

This tutorial describes how to define a site in Macromedia Dreamweaver MX. This tutorial is the sixth in a series of Macromedia Studio MX tutorials that teach you how to plan, design, create, and deploy a fully-functional website. To see all of the tutorials in the series, visit the Macromedia Studio MX page on the Macromedia Dreamweaver Support Center. A complete list of tutorials is also available at the Macromedia Designer and Developer Center

Web pages and sites created in Adobe GoLive are fairly easy to transfer to Macromedia Dreamweaver. However, there are a few issues to work out when you transfer. This article will help you make the change and work out the problems

This tutorial illustrates how you can use Macromedia FreeHand 10 to create preliminary sketches of your site's page layouts, color schemes, and other assets. This tutorial is the fourth in a series of Macromedia Studio MX tutorials that teach you how to plan, design, create, and deploy a fully-functional website. To see all of the tutorials in the series, visit the Macromedia Studio MX page on the Macromedia Dreamweaver Support Center. A complete list of tutorials is also available at the Macromedia Designer and Developer Center. This tutorial series uses a fictional organization, The Wildlife Project, to demonstrate website asset development. If you haven't already done so, be sure to read the Project overview in the first tutorial, Planning your Macromedia Studio MX website, and view the completed sample site.

This tutorial shows you how to assemble and edit site assets in Macromedia Dreamweaver MX. In this tutorial you'll add content to the Wildlife Project index.cfm page using the assets you created in Wildlife Project 9: Creating a banner graphic in Fireworks MX, Wildlife Project 10: Building a Fireworks MX Navigation Bar (Part 1), Wildlife Project 11: Building a Fireworks MX Navigation Bar (Part 2), and Wildlife Project 12: Using Fireworks MX and Flash MX to Create Animation. If you haven't completed these tutorials and stored the finished products in your Dreamweaver site, you'll need to do so before proceeding.

Planning and organizing your website involves much more than determining what the site will look like and where the files will go: to plan your site you need to examine the site goals, static and dynamic page requirements, and audience profiles. Additionally, you should consider technical requirements such as user access and browser, plug-in, or download restrictions. Careful planning before you begin site development will save you a great deal of time later.

You can customize Dreamweaver MX in a variety of ways from within the application; these approaches are described in Dreamweaver Help. "Customizing Macromedia Dreamweaver MX" describes how to hand-edit configuration files to customize the application in ways that are impossible from within the application. Specifically, you'll learn how to customize the Insert bar, menus, browser profiles, third-party tags, and other aspects of Dreamweaver.Because "Customizing Macromedia Dreamweaver MX" is too long to read easily in a browser, it is available as a downloadable PDF.

This tutorial shows you how to add animation to your website with Macromedia Fireworks MX and Macromedia Flash MX. Though this tutorial is designed for beginners, it will be easier for you to complete if you first familiarize yourself with the Macromedia Flash MX Stage, Timeline, and Tools. If you haven't already done so, complete the lessons that come with Macromedia Flash before proceeding. You can find and complete the lessons by selecting Help > Lessons

Whether you are developing your project single-handedly or collaborating with a team of people, you need to set up a development environment before you begin using Macromedia Studio MX to build your web pages. At the most basic level, your development environment will consist of a web server, an application server, and a Macromedia Dreamweaver MX site. This tutorial describes how to configure your system to build web applications in Dreamweaver MX. This tutorial is the fifth in a series of Macromedia Studio MX tutorials that teach you how to plan, design, create, and deploy a fully-functional website. To see all of the tutorials in the series, visit the Macromedia Studio MX page on the Macromedia Dreamweaver Support Center. A complete list of tutorials is also available at the Macromedia Designer and Developer Center.