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Dreamweaver MX Magic

Creative Fuel's editor, Zac Van Note contributed two projects to this book in New Rider's 'Magic' series. Dreamweaver MX Magic is a completely rewritten and updated edition, following the popular Dreamweaver 4 Magic. Hands-on tutorials and an included CD-ROM walk you through over a dozen projects for web professionals.

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If you already have the book, see the completed exercises in action:

Chapter 7: Breadcrumbs

Chapter 8: Search Engine

Creative Suite 4 Enhances the CS3 Toolset

With Adobe's Creative Suite 3, we finally had a comprehensive suite of applications that all worked together fairly well, at a reasonable (if not cheap) cost. Many complained that the merger with Macromedia would stifle innovation and the Adobe products wouldn't improve. With CS4, Adobe has made it clear that they will continue a fairly brisk upgrade cycle (about 18 months) with a broad range of improvements to every aspect of the suite.

From what I've seen and played with, there's no question that there are many nice-to-have enhancements and a handful of "WOW" features. So the question, as always is: should I upgrade. My answer is: Yes, if you use two or more parts of the suite on a daily basis. If you just use Dreamweaver or Photoshop on a regular basis and you only open the other components occassionally (which is common), you may do fine to wait for the next upgrade. It's sure to come around in early 2010. For those of us who depend on this software for daily work, the improvements justify the upgrade cost. For those of you who are still using CS or CS2, this is a no-brainer. You should take advantage of the introductory upgrade pricing before it expires in February, 2009.