Web Site Development Tool

With 54 percent of the votes, Macromedia's Studio MX 2004 won the Best Web Site Development Tool award. "It doesn't get any better," one reader said about this integrated toolset for Web site development. The toolset includes Dreamweaver MX 2004 (lets you create standard Web sites and applications), Flash MX 2004 (lets you create interactive Flash content), Fireworks MX 2004 (lets you design, optimize, and integrate Web graphics), FreeHand MX (lets you create illustrations and layouts for print publications and the Web), and ColdFusion MX 6.1 Developer Edition (lets you accelerate the development and deployment of Web applications).

Studio MX 2004 provides a common UI across all the tools to streamline Web site development and application workflow. According to our readers' comments, this UI also makes Studio MX 2004 easy to use. The intuitive and logically arranged UI is designed to maximize usable workspace. Using the UI's shared Start pages, site definitions, panel management, and document tabs, Web developers can quickly move among applications.