Welcome to Macromedia® Studio 8. Combining the latest releases of Dreamweaver®, Flash® Professional, Fireworks®, Contribute™ and FlashPaper™, Studio 8 offers web designers and developers a new level of expressiveness, efficiency and simplified workflow to create websites, interactive media and mobile content.

Some great resources are available to help you discover more about Studio 8, get support, and send feedback.

To Get Started
Registering your software will ensure you receive the latest information about upgrades and new products, technical support, and more. Register online now.

Release Notes
Release Notes contain late-breaking information and known issues about Studio 8.

Documentation
Exploring Studio 8 (available at www.macromedia.com/go/st_documentation) gives an overview of the Studio 8 products, introduces conceptual information about web application development, and provides a series of tutorials for using all the Studio products together. For a complete list of documentation available for each Studio product, see Help > Product Name Documentation Resource Center.

Developer Center
Discover the wealth of technical information freely available to Studio developers. Find inspiration with tips, articles, tutorials, and resources or steer your project to success with forums, code examples, exchanges, and reference materials for the taking.

Fireworks and your Operating System Language
When you install Fireworks 8, you get a multi-language version of the product. For a list of the languages included and instructions on changing the language, see www.macromedia.com/go/b6a0f908.

For Windows Users:

HomeSite+
Macromedia® HomeSite®+ is only available for Windows users. Look for the HomeSite+ installer on your CD or with the download of Studio 8 from the Macromedia online store.

An update is available for HomeSite+ to add support for ColdFusion MX 7. This is available in the HomeSite+ folder on your CD, or you can download the update.

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