This software suite has become the industry standard for web designers.

Adobe Flash in particular has no serious rivals when it comes to creating animated web pages. If you are used to earlier versions of Flash such as Flash 8, you will find CS4 is a big step forward. It includes Actionscript 3, which is far more logical in its handling of events and display objects than previous versions, plus a variety of other features, including support for 3D animation.

The suite includes

• Adobe Dreamweaver CS4
• Adobe Flash CS4 Professional
• Adobe Photoshop CS4 Extended
• Adobe Illustrator CS4
• Adobe Fireworks CS4
• Adobe Acrobat 9 Pro
• Adobe Soundbooth CS4
• Adobe Contribute CS4

Dreamweaver is the industry standard html editor used to created web pages, while Contribute provides a simple system for creating websites that can be updated by users without any knowledge of html.

Adobe Photoshop is useful for editing photography, however it has many other applications, including creating web templates that can be exported into Dreamweaver.

One of the most useful features of the Adobe suite is its integration, so you can for example paste a graphic from Illustrator or Fireworks directly into Flash.

The suite has so many features that it is impossible to list them all here. If you can get even halfway to mastering this software you will be an accomplished web designer.

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