This session will provide attendees with an overview of the iPhone SDK, including discussion of the App Store, Apple's planned distribution channel for SDK applications. Keep in mind that the contents of the SDK and experiences while using it are covered under NDA, so be prepared for me to talk in generics and leave out specific details that might be covered by the NDA. I am planning on providing a quick introduction to Objective-C for those attendees who may have never seen it and might be worried that it will be difficult to code in (it isn't!).

Dreamweaver Tools for Google, a free extension to Adobe Dreamweaver, is being released today by WebAssist, bringing advanced Google functionality to small business owners and Web professionals alike.

Everyone is toting a digital camera these days it seems and they have photos to share with you. I'm sure you're not one of those who want to bore family and friends with your gazillion pictures of your dog/cat/snake. Even if you are, you can now do it with some pizzazz and it's easier than you may think. You could send the photos via email but then they'd take forever to arrive and your family probably doesn't know how to open them anyway. So the best solution is a spiffy new photo gallery.

WebAssist - whose partners include Adobe, PayPal, Yahoo!, Google, and Affinity - today released the latest version, v3.0, of its best-selling SiteAssist program. SiteAssist 3.0 includes new professional-level designs that the company added, according to its President Eric Ott, in direct response to its customers' growing need for standard-compliant sites.

Macromedia Dreamweaver 8 is a major breakthrough for XML development, just as Dreamweaver MX 2004 was for CSS. The development team behind this release decided to offer people the entry-point support they needed to tackle XML and XSL-based web projects. The approach Dreamweaver 8 takes to XML and XSL is no surprise

The major breakthrough in Macromedia Dreamweaver 8 is visual authoring with XML data. You can now perform both client-side and server-side XSL transformations in a snap. I covered XML syntax in one of my previous articles. I also presented the XSL syntax and covered the differences between a server-side and a client-side transformation in my article, XSL Overview. Finally, in the article, Consuming a Remote RSS Feed with Dreamweaver 8, I show you how to consume a remote feed in your site, using the XSL Transformation server behavior in Dreamweaver 8.

In Part 1 of this tutorial, we taught you how to pull information from a database in order to set up a forum front end and how to style it with CSS. In this article, you will see how easy it is to build a user authentication system for your forum.

Forums (message boards) are a great way to share ideas, debate on current issues, or offer technical assistance to your clients. A forum can really help you build up a community around your website, increase traffic, and improve communication with your clients. Although you can find a wealth of free forum applications out there, which you can install and customize for your needs, this article teaches you how to build your own forum from scratch to make it fit your specific requirements.

Have you ever looked for missing remote server names, user names, and passwords? Have you ever tried to transfer a site definition to another system by copying the data stored in the Site Definition dialog box? If so, you probably discovered that it doesn't work because the password is encrypted.

Layers are a special kind of HTML elements that can be used as a container to hold other HTML elements and to show them dynamically using JavaScripts. We can stack more than one layer on top of each other. One or more layer can be made visible dynamically, by hiding others. But using Macromedia Dreamweaver you can do all this without even knowing JavaScript or coding.

Why is FreeHand not part of Studio 8? What do productivity tools Contribute 3 and FlashPaper 2 add? What about Flex? Why has the product name changed from Studio MX 2004? What are the new video features in Studio 8? How about the role of Flash Player 8? These, and sundry other questions on every imaginable aspect of the new Studio 8 release, are addressed here by four executives at Macromedia speaking exclusively to MX Developer's Journal.

Did you ever stop and wonder what the web might look like today if there were no standards? I think it would be a web of confusion. It reminds me of a file cabinet that I have full of important electronic data that I have accumulated over the years. I have accounting information on floppy disks from years past. The data was written by what is now long-obsolete software in file formats that I cannot access. If the World Wide Web were like my file cabinet it would be full of information written in Word 97 and Word Perfect and depending on the year I generated the files, some would be in the Apple Macintosh format while others would be in Microsoft PC format.

Since the 2002 release of Dreamweaver MX and Dreamweaver MX 2004 the following year, web professionals have had an embarrassment of riches in expressive features, efficient workflows, and an easy method of managing web content. The MX generation of Dreamweaver gave web professionals all the leanness and precision of a code editor along with the elegance and visual chops of WYSIWYG. The 3.2 million users attest to its success.

These days, not all users will be viewing your web site on a computer screen. Using Media types can open up a whole host of opportunities for restyling your content to cater to a variety of different devices. Media types can also open up a couple of cans of worms if you're still supporting archaic browsers, but we'll talk about that in a bit.

Acknowledging the necessity to get the latest development tools available, InterAKT is offering, for each Dreamweaver 8 purchase or upgrade originating from the InterAKT web site, a $129-worth ImpAKT license for free.

'Dreamweaver 8 not only delivers tools and workflow improvements that help make users more efficient, it also supports the web's best practices and is more closely integrated with the Studio 8 family and the latest technologies,' said David Mendels, general manager, Macromedia, as Macromedia unveiled today Macromedia Dreamweaver 8, the latest release of its professional web design and development tool.

Did you ever stop and wonder what the Web might look like if there were no standards? I think it would be a web of confusion.

The increasing use of Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) is changing the website design process. To meet the rising needs of CSS-conscious designers, Macromedia Dreamweaver MX includes many new and improved CSS-related features. With these new features, you can plan for future updates, build websites that are more compatible with World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) standards, and comply with new accessibility laws. This article discusses best practices when using CSS and highlights specific CSS features in Dreamweaver MX. Style sheets are, in general terms, a collection of formatting rules that control the appearance of content in a web page. You can implement CSS on your pages three different ways: Inline: a one-time style placed in the code Embedded: a style sheet that controls the elements on one web page External: one external style sheet that can control the appearance of many web pages Many websites, in fact, use combinations of these different kinds of CSS styles. An important consideration in the use of CSS styles is the fact that different browsers (and different versions of the same browser) render CSS styles differently. In addition to variations in web browser compatibility, you should be aware that many other types of browsers exist, such as aural browsers, TV-based browsers, handheld devices such as Palm Pilots, and TTY (teletypewriter).

In 'Let It Snow, Man' (MXDJ Vol. 2, issue 12), I used Fireworks to create all the essential ingredients for our frozen friend. We then exported the pieces using Export as CSS Layers. This gave us a starting HTML page (generated by Fireworks) and all of our graphics in absolutely positioned DW layers (DIVs).

Recently, while doing some consulting, I observed a programmer hand-coding a query and database fields onto a Web page. Here is the scary part: they were using Dreamweaver MX 2004. The following week I delivered a seminar and spoke about dynamic technology. I was amazed how many did not know about the built-in features of Dreamweaver for creating these pages.

Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) can be confusing. Not only do Web developers need to know the different CSS properties, and the sometimes bizarre ways that Web browsers render those properties, there are times when CSS just doesn't seem to behave. You create a new class style - .highlight, for example - that's supposed to change the text color to burgundy. But when you select the text and apply the style nothing happens.

As sites become larger and larger, site management becomes a larger worry. How do I keep a 2000-page site updated? How do I keep navigation elements consistent? How do I manage to change the nav on a 2000-page site without losing all my hair? There are a few methods in Dreamweaver that accomplish this.

In today's wild, wild Web, the catchphrases are usability, accessibility, standards-compliance, and valid code. Why is valid code so important? The sheer number of browsers out there that display the same code differently make it virtually impossible to have different versions of code for each browser. In this day and age, maintaining standardized and valid code is essential.

In an effort geared towards familiarizing elementary students with media applications, Macromedia announced a new, affordable license for elementary schools. This is the first time that Macromedia has offered licenses, reduced or otherwise, on the elementary level.

If you've decided this is the year you'll really get a handle on CSS, one of the first things you want to learn to do is harness its power - and avoid 'classitis.' Understanding the document tree - the structure of the document and the relationships between the elements - is the first step in writing highly efficient and compact CSS.

There is a little bit of irony going on here: this is an article about a software package that will go a long way toward rendering printed technical media, such as this journal, obsolete. Last year Macromedia purchased the company eHelp and, as a result, acquired RoboHelp, RoboInfo, RoboHelp for Framemaker, RoboPDF, and RoboDemo.

CSS has been around for years, but many Web designers still do not think it is ready to be used extensively because of the host of browser rendering inconsistencies that exist. However, by knowing a few CSS hacks and tricks, you can learn how to write code that is cross-browser compatible and allows you to fully separate your content from its presentation.

As a developer who often finds myself with less time to develop projects than I would perhaps like, the lure of purchasing a plug-in that saves time on database creation is more than a little tempting. This is what the NeXTensio2 plug-in offers for PHP-driven systems that use Dreamweaver.

Leading customers including EDGE*MODERN Furniture, Gulfstream Aerospace, and Sallie Mae are realizing increased productivity and functionality with Macromedia Dreamweaver MX 2004.

Since the launch of Dreamweaver MX 2004, I've had numerous opportunities to demonstrate its new features and power to both new and existing Dreamweaver users. As with any product demonstration, it doesn't take long before I'm singing the praises of Dreamweaver MX 2004's abilities to design and render CSS, or Cascading Style Sheets.

While dialog boxes and pull-down menus are one way to insert HTML, all that extra mousing around takes time. After the tenth time you choose Insert > Image Objects > Rollover Image, your aching hand will need some relief and you'll be wondering if there's a faster way to get your work done.

Support for cascading style sheets, or CSS, has been present in Dreamweaver for many years; you may have taken advantage of it as just another software feature without really knowing how to utilize it fully, efficiently, and correctly. This article will introduce you to some general guidelines to follow while setting up and working with CSS-based Web pages so you can achieve more consistent rendering cross-browser.

No doubt, you have heard about XML. XML is everywhere. For Web designers, that can add to the confusion. If something is everywhere, it's nowhere. If only you heard 'XML is the new HTML,' then maybe you could wrap your mind around it as a markup language. But chances are, you've heard much more than that about XML.

Unless you've been living under a rock - at least a rock without high speed internet access - you've no doubt heard of Cascading Style sheets, or CSS. Over the next few months we'll be featuring articles on how to use Dreamweaver MX 2004 and Cascading Style Sheets to make your sites look great and work better.

Dreamweaver is at the top of the heap in the arena of Web-development applications. Part of the reason why it is so successful is its plethora of timesaving features that generate code for you.

Originally, I was going to use this article to present a tutorial on using PHAkt in conjunction with PostgreSQL to create dynamic Web sites. However, as I've just returned from MAX 2003 (a nice show, really), my vision changed a bit. I was repeatedly told, 'Dreamweaver users don't work with server behaviors - they prefer to code manually.'

If you're using Dreamweaver to build ASP.NET-driven Web sites, you've undoubtedly encountered DataSets. The DataSet tag, one of Macromedia's custom tags, interacts with a database via SQL statements like SELECT, INSERT, UPDATE, DELETE. You can also use it to execute stored procedures. The DataSet is to ASP.NET what the recordset is to ASP. Except that it's better, of course.

Dreamweaver hides many wonderful (and often overlooked) tools. While you may be a long-time user of Dreamweaver templates you might not know some of their more powerful features. This article explains how two of these 'template secrets' interact, and how you might use them on your pages.

Powerful and easy 'hosted search' services like Google help your customers unearth everything from general Web results anywhere on the Internet to pages located on your site.

The Web always changes, and the tools we developers use must also. Dreamweaver MX 2004, the next generation of the popular Web development program, is on its way, featuring improved support for cutting-edge CSS, time-saving enhancements, and performance improvements. In this first look, MX Developer's Journal presents an overview of the changes.