'Turbolinux's focus is simple,' says Koichi Yano, president & COO, Turbolinux, Inc., on the release today of Flash Player 7 for Linux. 'It is to respond to the requests of our customers. When those requests pointed to the ability of viewing rich media content right out of the box, we w...

Support for cascading style sheets, or CSS, has been present in Dreamweaver for many years; you may have taken advantage of it as just another software feature without really knowing how to utilize it fully, efficiently, and correctly. This article will introduce you to some general g...

No doubt, you have heard about XML. XML is everywhere. For Web designers, that can add to the confusion. If something is everywhere, it's nowhere. If only you heard 'XML is the new HTML,' then maybe you could wrap your mind around it as a markup language. But chances are, you've heard ...

Part 1 of this article (Vol. 1, issue 3) covered a general introduction to the Extensibility Layer and discussed the fundamental DOM and the relationship between different parts of a Flash document and their associated objects. It introduced the History panel and showed you how to buil...

This is the second in a series of articles on globalizing ColdFusion MX (CFMX) applications. This article examines character encodings and CFMX, BIDI (bidirectional text), the use of Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) in application globalization (G11N), and why we should all just use Unicod...

Central is important to developers for a number of reasons. First, Central provides an application framework with which you can sell the applications you make. You just have to add a few purchasing details to an XML file and edit a Web form. Additionally, the user is presented with inf...

Whenever I tried to win an argument with my mother, she'd usually end up saying the final words, 'Like it or get used to it.' That's the way it is with the multitude of programs graphic artists use today. Incorporating multiple programs into a single, seamless suite is an extremely dif...

Could it be that we're about to see the disappearance of QuickTime, Windows Media Player, and RealOne as viable Web players for streaming video and audio? Now that I have your attention, this question is not as radical as it appears at first glance.

I recently received a letter from a reader asking if I knew of any plug-in programs to create text effects in Fireworks MX. The reader seemed a bit surprised when I wrote back and told them that Fireworks already had the tools to get the job done.

Panic seems to be a common feeling for those new to Director, those who dare to launch it. We're going to try to ease the feeling of panic and create familiarity with common interface elements. You should also feel inspired to use Director for projects where you may be using Flash for ...

Macromedia, purveyor of technologies such as Flash, Dreamweaver, ColdFusion, Fireworks, and Director, is looking for Java developers to form advisory groups to better understand the needs of Java developers and inform future product development.