XML for Web Designers Using Macromedia Studio MX 2004

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Learn to Use XML in Your Web Designs!

With the expanding popularity of XML technology and the abundance of new XML features in today’s software, the pressure is on Web designers to learn XML. XML for Web Designers Using Macromedia Studio MX 2004 gets designers up to speed with XML quickly and efficiently. It teaches you how XML is supported and leveraged by Studio MX, and how to use it to create more efficient, vibrant Web designs.

The book begins with a straightforward overview of XML programming and then walks you through a variety of detailed tutorials that teach you how to write valid and efficient XML code. Using these projects, you’ll learn how to:

* Use Dreamweaver® MX 2004 to author XML files
* Build multiple graphics files (such as a Web banner ads) with an XML file and Fireworks® Transform XML into HTML with Dreamweaver MX
* Import XML data into Dreamweaver Templates
* Write an XSL-T stylesheet that prepares the XML data for use as a template in Dreamweaver MX
* Write a cascading stylesheet for an XML file using Dreamweaver MX
* Build a dynamic, data-driven Web site with Dreamweaver and ColdFusion
* Send and receive live data from a Flash™ MX Professional 2004 file
* Integrate these new skills to develop dynamic sites with XML and Macromedia Flash MX 2004

By adding XML and its related languages to your skill set, you can participate in the awesome array of possibilities the future holds for Web development.

On the CD!
* All the files necessary to complete the lessons in the book, including finished project files
* Trial versions of the Macromedia software (Dreamweaver, Flash, and Fireworks) needed to complete the tutorials in the book
* XFactor for XSLT Editing and Learning, by Richard Wagner

SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS WINDOWS: 600 MHz Intel Pentium III processor or equivalent; Windows 98 SE (4.10.222 A), Windows 2000, or Windows XP; 256 MB RAM (512 MB recommended); 800 MB available disk space. MACINTOSH: 500 MHz PowerPC G3 processor; Mac OS X 10.2.6, 10.3, and later; 256 MB RAM (512 MB recommended); 500 MB available disk space. Due to limited support of XML on the Macintosh Platform, some operations will not be successful.

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Macromedia Flex: Expanding on Flash to Provide Rich Client Capabilities ZapNote

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Companies originally moved to adopt standards-based technologies like those underlying the Web and the Internet as a way to achieve distributed computing functionality at a very low total cost of ownership. However, such companies had to forego many of the user interface and productivity advantages that other distributed computing methods, such as traditional client/server applications, gave them. This fundamental drawback to thin clients like Web browsers let to an emerging class of vendor that offers rich client solutions that provide the optimal combination of rich, low-cost interaction through standards-based distributed computing.

Macromedia was one of the early pioneers in rich user interaction across the Internet. In 1997, they made a splash in the market with their Flash product, and as of the date of this report, over 90% of Web browsers and 500 million users are equipped with the Macromedia Flash player. Continuing this legacy, Macromedia has introduced its Flex product that leverages Flash to provide rich client capabilities over standards-based, loosely coupled distributed computing infrastructures.

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Laszlo Systems: Rich Client Capabilities Based on Macromedia Flash ZapNote

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In the past, companies had to forego many of the user interface and productivity advantages that other distributed computing methods, such as traditional client/server applications, used to give them. Companies looking to implement rich client technologies across a heterogeneous IT infrastructure will be most interested in a new breed of solution focused specifically on providing rich user interaction across standards-based, loosely coupled distributed computing environments. This solution set is the class of rich client-focused technologies.

Laszlo Systems has produced its own server-side offering called the Laszlo Presentation Server and XML-based development language called LZX to that provides rich client interaction and consumption of Web Services through the delivery of interactive Macromedia Flash SWF files to end-user clients.

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