As you may have heard on August 8th. Macromedia is getting ready to release a new version of Macromedia Studio that includes updates to Flash, Dreamweaver, Contribute and Fireworks. Freehand has been removed from the Studio Suite because Macromedia is focusing strictly on their Web tools in this release. I had an opportunity to sit in on the Dreamweaver 8 seminar this afternoon and here are some of the new features and improvements that I am looking forward to.

• Increased Focus on Flash Video
• Design View Zoom Tool
• Live RSS
• Feed Manipulation Support
• CSS Enhancement
• Accessibility WCAG Priority 2 Checkpoints improvements
• Support for Multiple CSS Media Types
• Improved CSS Rendering
• Dynamic Guides
• Coding Toolbar - along with code collapse

Macromedia has even updated Fireworks to support CSS export in their Fireworks HTML. A big plus for those of you who use Fireworks to manipulate your Web graphics.