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[kirk schmidt <kirklimon AT mindspring.com>]

help!

i am a relative newbie to the production and maintenance of high quality 
websites
and i'd like to open up a debate or receive a personal response on the demand 
(for work that can produced
with),
compatibility, characteristics, and overall functionality of the following 
applications:


Macromedia:

Fireworks 2
Dreamweaver 2
Flash 4
Director 7

       --  does Director 7 contain the same tools as the others?  Is it 
necessary to have more than one?  Which
does what?


Adobe:

GoLive 4

      --  does anyone do any serious web-application video work with Premier 
or After Effects?



--  Are there any other applications that are on par with or better than 
these for website construction?

--  Which are best for commerce oriented sites?  Art oriented sites?  
Information sites?  Sound?  Video?
Java?  Manipulation?

--  Who provides the best quality (and secure) and/or least expensive online 
credit card processing service?

--  HTML?  XML?  what's up?


thanks a lot!  any response is appreciated...  i've got some learning to do, 
and not a huge budget, but enough
to do what i need to do...


kirk