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Ok a bought myself Dreamweaver MX 2004 and find it really differant to Front Page and complicated! any tips? I have ordered a Book from E Bay

Shelljed wrote:
> nope a think i have the real deal here, no need to ask any questions
> from him am sure its genuine.

Were you asked to activate it?

Now that we have that sorted .....I tried Free hand - its is a bit cumbersome I usually use Photoshop 7 and Image Ready for graphics and Free hand seems more akward? perhaps not may just be that I am not used to it?

Fair enough - as long as you're sure. Just trying to make sure you're not gonna get stung! Lol.

nope a think i have the real deal here, no need to ask any questions from him am sure its genuine.

You have to ask yourself why he is selling it so cheap if it is boxed and sealed. Reminds me of a spam scam where they offer cheap software boxed and sealed but the reason it's cheap is cos it was various backdoors coded into it which AV/anti-spyware programs won't detect.

I just popped over to Amazon. You still can't get Studio MX 2004 for £160 can you? Can you? Oooh!!

Nimco wrote:
> Erm, I wouldn't be entirely confident about the validity of the
> software then. It retails at about £350 usually. Is it
> secondhand?
>
> Did you get all the packaging with it? Do you have a receipt?

Brand New in a sealed box with Certificate and I have a receipt I haggled with my man as I saw it on E Bay for about £170 but it has cold fussion 6 mine is 7 but it is a legit disk I have, I do have some useful friends

Nimco wrote:
> Erm, I wouldn't be entirely confident about the validity of the
> software then. It retails at about £350 usually. Is it
> secondhand?
>
> Did you get all the packaging with it? Do you have a receipt?

DWMX04 @ £229

Though there is a student licence for StudioMX04 (has no support with it) for £240 but not allowed to use it for commercial applications.

Hmmm... wrote:
> It looks like you did buy 'Studio' - can I ask how much you paid and
> from where ?

I'd be interested in that. I've got to buy a new licence of MX2004 Studio for my Mac (Stupid MM's dual platform licence is annoying!) and the lowest I've been quoted is: £650 (non Flash pro) which is what I paid for my last copy. Although I can run my current version on 2 seperate PC's, I'm not allowed to run it across 2 seperate platforms!:(

> Re. Fireworks - I have this and use it every day, Very happy with it!
> You do have to read the help files to get you started and then,
> before long it becomes second nature.

FWK's truly rocks for web based image manipulation. 2004 especially. There's still a few issues I have with it's code output, but for rapid prototyping, it does a really good job. Currently playing with dynamic text replacement on images.

For the rest of Studio, Freehand is evil compared to the might of Illustrator, really bulky UI and totally non intuative. Cold Fusion is OK, never had much use for it and it's only a cut down version and the J2REE licence it astronomical!

Don't use Flash much, not a huge fan of it, but it's nice to see they still package Homesite with the Studio which is a really powerful application on it's own.

As for getting to know your way around it. Ditch the WYSWIG approach. They've improved it a lot since MXStudio, but it's CSS handling is still ropey at best. Has a really nice ability as well to allow you to preview dynamic based output without having to run direct from the server which cuts development time down by half.

Erm, I wouldn't be entirely confident about the validity of the software then. It retails at about £350 usually. Is it secondhand?

Did you get all the packaging with it? Do you have a receipt?