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CHAPTER 3
Web Development
Workflow
This chapter demonstrates how the individual components of Macromedia
Studio 8—Macromedia Dreamweaver 8, Macromedia Flash 8,
Macromedia Fireworks 8, Macromedia Contribute 3, and Macromedia
FlashPaper 2—make up a comprehensive suite for designing, developing,
and maintaining interactive online experiences, as part of a typical web
development workflow.
This chapter contains the following sections:
About the web development workflow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .121
Planning your website . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122
Setting up the development environment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123
Planning page design and layout . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125
Creating content assets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128
Assembling, testing, and deploying . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130
Maintaining and updating your site . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133
About the web development
workflow
A typical web development workflow involves the following stages:
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Planning the site, which includes defining the site’s strategy or goals,
targeting an audience, and determining your site’s data requirements
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Setting up the development environment, which includes selecting
your web and application servers, defining a site with Dreamweaver,
and defining data sources
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Planning page design and layout, which includes mocking up your
pages and interfaces with a drawing tool such as Fireworks, and laying
out the pages in HTML with Dreamweaver
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