Design and graphics software - Macromedia!
Macromedia have now become a part of Adobe and so many of the products on this page are now bundled with Adobe products - currrently as part of Studio 8. Others may soon be discontinued.
As with Adobe design software, Macromedia tend to bundle their creative products into logical software bundles. Macromedia software is far more biased towards web design and development and multimedia than Adobe (who were traditionally based firmly in the design for print market).
| Design software |
Current version |
Description |
| Contribute |
3 |
Allows non-technical web authors, editors and content managers to edit and update web sites without affecting the web site design. |
| Director |
MX 2004 |
Multimedia and animation design software. Used in CD ROM and kiosk design. Also produces Shockwave graphics for web sites. |
| Dreamweaver |
8 |
Probably the most popular WYSIWYG web design software in use by web designers. |
| Fireworks |
MX 2004 |
Image manipulation software for creating and optimising web graphics. Rival to Adobe's Image Ready (which comes as part of Photoshop). No use for print graphics. |
| Flash Professional |
8 |
Industry standard online animation graphics software. Produces .swf animation files. |
| Fontographer |
4.1.3 |
Long discontinued, industry standard Font design software. Was owned by Macromedia, but was never ported to OS X or upgraded for Windows. Fontographer has now been given a new lease of life and is owned by FontLab. |
| Freehand |
MX |
Macromedia's rival to Adobe Illustrator. Vector graphics drawing program for print and web. |
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