Dear Educator: Sincerely, Norm Meyrowitz President, Macromedia Products

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1 Dear Educator: Thank you for your interest in Macromedia software and Web Design 101. We understand that with so many new tools introduced each year, it s time consuming to learn and evaluate the latest software, let alone create classroom curricula using the tools to produce great Web content. Macromedia Web Design 101 aims to eliminate the risk associated with learning and teaching the best new products. This kit provides everything you need to teach a semester of Web design: A semester-length license for Macromedia Web design and production tools FreeHand, Fireworks, Flash, and Dreamweaver for installation on up to 50 lab computers. 24 hours of hands-on course curricula (in print and PDF format) developed by professional Web designers and educators. Example files and project assignments for students on CD-ROM. With this kit, you ll have the means to give your students a solid understanding of Web design tools and techniques, with six one-hour lessons devoted to each product. We re confident your students will love our award-winning suite of Web design tools, and we hope you find our professionally designed curricula appropriate for your classroom. We are proud to introduce Web Design 101, and we welcome your feedback on how our products and Web Design 101 can serve you best in the future. Please send your comments to [email protected]. Happy teaching. Sincerely, Norm Meyrowitz President, Macromedia Products P.S. Please see the very important information about the 90-day trial versions of Dreamweaver, Flash, Fireworks, and FreeHand at the beginning of the curriculum. Failure to do so may result in the software expiring before the completion of the curriculum.

2 Overview: Web Design from Concept to Delivery Although the software and the lessons for each product can be used independently, it is important to consider how the tools of Web Design 101 work together. FreeHand A compelling Web site starts with a good design. Web site design requires decisions at the micro level (icons and type treatments) and at the macro level (relationships between pages and the complete look of a site) to create a unified experience. FreeHand s design and visualization environment provides the fundamental tools for creating designs. From creating discrete vector graphics for Flash to prototyping whole Web sites, FreeHand provides a powerful starting point for Web design tasks: Creating vector-based illustrations with a powerful set of tools and effects. Managing the design of a site as a multi-page document from first concept to the beginning of production. Creating a design document that can be printed for a customer, delivered as PDF, or published as HTML. Leveraging design assets during production by importing FreeHand graphics into Flash or Fireworks. By introducing the basics of computer-based design as well as the advantages of FreeHand s document environment, we help to give your students a foundation in good design. While no class can make someone a good designer, mastering this first stage of Web development can make production of Web graphics in Flash and Fireworks easier. Flash Flash s unique benefit lies in its ability to translate compelling visuals into animations that don t strain the bandwidth of Web browsers. Using compact vectors, your students can push the limits of design and animation without compromising the responsiveness of a Web site. By learning Flash, your students will learn how to create everything from animated menus to full-screen interface animations, and much more: Fundamentals of cel-based animation. Skills for designing interactive user interfaces. Techniques for advanced effects like transparency. Opportunities offered by dynamic design. Flash builds on the basics of design by providing students with an introduction to dynamic animated design. By encouraging your students to address key issues like interactivity, bandwidth, and animation, you will build the foundation for design that is easy on the eyes and on bandwidth. Fireworks While Flash explores the upper limits of animated design, Fireworks tackles the nuts and bolts of producing and optimizing bitmap graphics for the Web. The Web makes use of bitmap graphics ranging from animated banners, buttons, bullets, artwork, and photos. In fact, bitmaps are the most ubiquitous of Web graphics. Fireworks has taken the mystery out of creating and optimizing images, and in learning this application, students will be introduced to key processes:

3 Trading off quality and file size to produce an optimal graphic. Automatic production of JavaScript and HTML for basic interactivity. Animating text and graphics. Learning relative advantages of bitmaps and vectors. At the end of the Fireworks curriculum, students will be ready to produce graphics at the highest quality level and with the lowest impact on bandwidth. Moreover, they will grasp the unique benefit of the Fireworks flexible next generation bitmap editing environment. Dreamweaver After tackling the essentials of design, graphics production, and animation, students will bring it all together with Dreamweaver, the professional s choice for HTML Web page design and production. Dreamweaver s Roundtrip HTML reinforces the importance of clean HTML, while allowing students the flexibility of both visual and source code editing. Using Dreamweaver, students can teach themselves HTML by seeing which HTML tags are generated automatically as a result of drag-and-drop Web page design. Learning Dreamweaver, students explore the latest in Web development technology and methods: A solid understanding of HTML. Production techniques that save time. Central concepts of DHTML and JavaScript. Key techniques for creating and publishing sites. Dreamweaver teaches professional techniques and habits so that your students will develop skills that can be applied no matter what the job.

4 How to use Web Design 101 IMPORTANT: Web 101 provides you with 30-day trial versions of FreeHand, Flash, Fireworks, and Dreamweaver for your evaluation as an educator, as well as 90-day trial versions that can be installed on up to 50 lab computers for use in your classroom. Please note that once either of these versions expires, you will not be able to restart the software without purchasing it, so you should exercise care to make sure that the software is installed at the appropriate time so that it can used through a complete course. The copyright protection scheme on these trial versions is highly sensitive to modification or deletion of its secret security files. Should the trial version ask for a serial number, time out prematurely or if you are unable to launch the product during your trial window, please contact Release Software at or send 24 hours a day to [email protected]. We recommend that you teach the all of the products in the Web Design 101 curriculum. However, each of the curricula has been written to stand on its own. If you choose to only use one of these products in your classroom, the curricula does not require prior knowledge of any of the other products covered in Web Design 101. There are two sets of software included on the CD. One set of software is the 30-day Trials intended for you to learn the curriculum and the software. Separately, there are 90-day trial versions intended for lab use by your students. For example, on August 15, you consider teaching Dreamweaver in your Web design class that begins on September 15. To evaluate the product and use it in the classroom follow these steps: 1. Check to make sure your computer meets the minimum system requirements for the product of interest. 2. Install the 30-day trial version of Dreamweaver from the 30-day Trials folder on the Web 101 CD on your office computer. This version will expire 30 days from first launch. 3. From the Dreamweaver folder on the Web 101 CD, copy the contents of the Examples folder to your local drive. 4. Use the printed curricula to work through the examples and find a comfortable teaching pace. Once you decide to use Dreamweaver and the curricula in your class: 1. Check to make sure all the lab computers meet the minimum system requirements for the product of interest. 2. Install the 90-day trial version of Dreamweaver found in the Software folder in the Dreamweaver folder on the Web 101 CD. This version can be used on to 50 labs computers simultaneously for 90 consecutive days from first product launch. 3. Copy the Example files from the Dreamweaver folder to the local drives on the lab computers. 4. Duplicate the curricula using the printed copies supplied with the Web 101 kit or printing from the PDF files. You may make unlimited copies for educational purposes. 5. At the end of the 90-day evaluation period, the Dreamweaver software will expire. To purchase the software, contact Macromedia educational sales for information on Educational Volume Licenses. All of the activities above are for Dreamweaver specifically. The 90-day trial versions of each product on the CD expire 90 days from their first launch. So if on December 15, you decide to teach using Fireworks and have not installed and launched Fireworks on your lab computers, you would follow the same steps as above.

5 What s Included on the Web Design 101 CD 30-day Trials For testing the curricula and the software, we have included fully functional versions of Dreamweaver, Fireworks, and Flash.The trial version of FreeHand is save-disabled and will not time out. The 30-day trials are single-license copies and are not licensed for concurrent lab use. Adobe Acrobat Reader In addition to the printed copy of the curricula, we have provided each of the lessons as its own PDF file, making it easy for you to distribute and publish the lessons for your students. To print the lessons from the CD, install Adobe Acrobat Reader on your computer, locate the lesson in the curriculum folder in each product s folder, open the PDF file, and print to a local or networked printer. The folders named after the products (Dreamweaver, Fireworks, Flash and FreeHand) include the following subfolders. Software This folder contains the software you need to install the products. The use of this software is limited to a 90 day, 50-computer license sufficient to equip an entire lab for a semester. In the case of FreeHand, there is an additional installation for Insta.HTML. Examples We have included the work files used in each of the lessons in the Examples folder, broken out by lesson number for each product (except for Dreamweaver work files which are all contained in one subfolder named Bookstore). Curricula This folder contains PDF files for each individual lesson and can be printed out using Adobe Acrobat Reader, a copy of which is included on the CD. The PDF files are identical to the printed materials included with the Web Design 101 kit, with the exception that the screen shots in the PDF files appear in color.

6 Contact Information Licensing Information The Macromedia Education Volume License Program (EVLP) offers schools and universities the opportunity to realize substantial, cumulative savings on software over a two-year license period and longer. Upgrades count toward establishing volume discount levels, and subscription is available to ensure that schools have the most current versions of Macromedia software. Contact your local education reseller for details or call Technical Support In addition to free Electronic Support for all Macromedia software, available at Web Design 101 includes one free technical support call.to take advantage of our free technical support, have your serial number (located on the CD sleeve on the Web Design 101 CD) ready and call between 6:00 am and 5:00 pm Pacific Time. Limited to one call per customer. Should the trial version ask for a serial number, time out prematurely or if you are unable to launch the product during your trial window, please call release software at or send 24 hours a day to [email protected].

7 System Requirements Macintosh Windows DREAMWEAVER Power Macintosh PowerPC processor Mac OS or later 24+ MB of free RAM (higher resolution and color depth recommended) At least 24 MB of free hard disk space FIREWORKS Power Macintosh PowerPC processor, 604/120 or greater (G3 recommended) MacOS or higher 24 MB of free RAM with Virtual Memory on (32+ MB with Virtual Memory turned off recommended) (1024x768 millions of colors recommended) 60 MB of free hard disk space (100 MB recommended) Adobe Type Manager Version 4 or higher required with Type 1 fonts DREAMWEAVER Intel Pentium processor 90+ MHz or equivalent required Windows 95, Windows NT 4, or later 16+ MB of free RAM (higher resolution and color depth recommended) 20+ MB of free hard disk space FIREWORKS Intel Pentium processor 120 processor (166 with MMX recommended) Windows 95, Windows NT 4 (with Service Pack 3), or later Windows 95: 32+ MB of RAM Windows NT: 40+ MB of RAM (1024x768 millions of colors recommended) 60 MB of free hard disk space (100 MB recommended) FLASH processor or faster, including Intel Pentium processor Windows 95, Windows NT 4, or later Windows 95: 16 MB of RAM (24 MB recommended) Windows NT 4: 24 MB of RAM (32 MB recommended) CD-ROM drive FREEHAND 8 Power Macintosh PowerPC processor or faster, including G3 Mac OS 7.x or later 16 MB of RAM (32 MB recommended) 30 MB of disk space (60+ MB recommended) FLASH 3 Power Macintosh PowerPC processor MacOS 7.5 or later 16 MB of RAM (32 MB recommended) FREEHAND 8 Intel Pentium processor or faster Windows 95 or Windows NT 4 (with Service Pack 3) or later Windows 95: 16+ MB of RAM (24 or more recommended) Windows NT 4: 24+ MB of RAM (32 or more recommended) 30 MB of disk space (60+ MB recommended) CD-ROM drive PostScript printer (recommended)