Macromedia Studio MX 2004 Win/Mac (B0000CAVSE) - Reviews and Prices

Customer Reviews:

Avg. Customer Rating: 3.0 / 5.0

Going Downhill:

I have been using Macromedia Products since version 2 of Dreamweaver. I have a thorough knowledge of Dreamweaver and Fireworks. I have a bit less of Flash yet I do use it from time to time to create flash elements in sites that are primarily driven by html or xhtml code. I don't use Freehand because I think it is perhaps the most poorly implemented of all illustration programs bar none. I have always hoped that Macromedia would take Freehand seriously... and till this day I am still hoping.

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The Best Out There!:

If you are an amateur or professional web designer, don't already have Studio MX and are thinking of moving over from competing Web design packages or bundles from other vendors, buy it. Now. You won't regret it. Dreamweaver MX 2004 is the best web site editor available, and Flash MX 2004 is the best Flash graphics creation package available - though this isn't surprising since the Flash format was created by Macromedia.

Macromedia unleashes its MX2004 product suite of upgrades. And its a home run. The... more info

Poor Release, especially on a Mac:

There are a lot of neat-o features in this release, though unfortunately, they're overshadowed by the terrible sluggish performance on Mac OS X Panther (a very fast OS) and frankly, I'm shifting my web design over to Adobe software because of this poor release. Mac users - don't buy Macromedia software until they fix the terrible performance and many show-stopping bugs!

Choose which OS you register with carefully!:

I purchased Studio MX 2004 Educational version for use with building websites in a class I'm taking in college. It said it was for Mac and Windows, but it only allows you to register the product on ONE operating system. My problem is that I have both a PC (desktop) and a Mac (laptop), and I installed the software on my PC first, it told me to register it, so I did. BIG mistake, I tried to load and use the software on my Mac and I couldn't because I had already registered it on the PC. I called their... more info

Accessories:

Microsoft Windows XP Professional UPGRADE with SP2 from Microsoft Software (CD-ROM)

Microsoft Encarta Standard 2005 [OLD VERSION] from Microsoft (CD-ROM)

Microsoft Picture It! Premium 10.0 from Microsoft Software (CD-ROM)

Microsoft Works Suite 2005 from Microsoft Software (CD-ROM)

Microsoft Plus! SuperPack for Windows XP [OLD VERSION] from Microsoft Software (CD-ROM)

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