Studio MX 2004 with Flash

Macromedia Dreamweaver is the first obvious starting point of this package. Dreamweaver is an excellent package that can be used to build full-featured websites. I would suggest anyone starting to use Dreamweaver to attend a course as the package can be overwhelming if you have no background in WSWG (what you see is what you get) software to build websites. The next thing to learn would be Fireworks, which is a fairly web-centric graphics program. Fireworks can do many of the things that a full-blown graphics program like Adobe Photoshop can do, however it is more targeted at the web developer. For those who are more daring, try the Flash product which can be used for animations among other functionality. I really like Coldfusion. Coldfusion has many interesting tags that allow you to read and write databases, perform programming logic like ifs, elses and a myriad of other functionality like scripting, using Java, XML etc. Theres no end to what you can do and keep discovering in Coldfusion. A great book is Sams Teach Yourself Coldfusion MX in 21 Days, which has all you need to know to build fairly significant Coldfusion applications. The only drawback of Coldfusion, which is really the endgame of these products, is that it is not extensively used commercially by web developers. Time and time again I get chastised for not creating my web applications in more commercially acceptable PHP or Microsoft products that would make my products more universally hostable, supportable and acceptable. We can only hope that a new version of Coldfusion is soon coming, with even more extensive and fun features to learn. I would say, especially if you are a web programming hobbyist, and have access to some inexpensive courses to get you started, you wont be disappointed by joining the Macromedia way.

good product