Macromedia Flash is known as the authoring tool that brought vector graphics and interactive animation to the Web. But the Internet is no longer a one-way highway that merely disseminates ...

Flash, Macromedia’s Web-animation and interface-design software, has been instrumental in bringing the Web out of the staid laboratory and into a Technicolor world of on-demand information, ...

The Good: A whole new world of interactive XML-based Web site-creation tools. The Bad: Complex, and requires a major commitment to learn. For professional Web designers only. The Verdict: With a ...

After a decade of web-style development, I’m sold on the idea of using markup languages to describe the layouts of user interfaces and to coordinate the event-driven code that interconnects widgets ...

Adobe tries hard with ImageReady, but when it comes to Web graphics creation, Macromedia's Fireworks is still the undisputed king. It sports a comprehensive set of graphics tools; a sleek, efficient ...

In about 10 days, Macromedia will be releasing the latest version of its Flash authoring software. The new version will add some functionality currently provided by media players such as QuickTime ...

With this release, Macromedia FreeHand has finally joined the MX family. Not surprisingly, this release offers even tighter integration with other MX products—notably Fireworks and Flash. Macromedia ...