Macromedia: Meaning (information, definition, explanation, facts)

Macromedia is a graphics and web development software house, whose most widely known products are the rich web content creation application Flash and the visual web development application Dreamweaver. Among other products are the vector drawing application FreeHand, web graphics creator Fireworks, multimedia authoring application Director, web application server environments ColdFusion, type authoring application Fontographer, Flash Communication server and Flex. Macromedia's main rival is graphics and publishing software company Adobe Systems.

Macromedia headquarters are in San Francisco, California In 2001, Macromedia bought the web development company Allaire and added some Web development software to their products. These products include the HTML editor Homesite, the Java application server JRun and ColdFusion.