Free this week: 1,415 Tutorials at CommunityMX

My partners and I over at CommunityMX.com have thrown open the doors this week to our complete library of articles and tutorials. During this Open House you can read any article you'd like for free. (Downloads of source files and PDF versions of the articles still require a subscription.) You can check out the articles by category here or see what your favorite author has written by following the links on the the author's page.

Let me just say that I'm a bit humbled to work with such a talented group of people. If you look at the book titles alone that have come out of our group it's pretty impressive. The Director and Dreamweaver and Fireworks and ColdFusion and Flash and even Flash Remoting books written by my partners could easily take up an entire section on web development at your local bookstore. Combine that with the active role that many of our partners play in the world of on-line discussions and community groups and the numerous articles published in magazines, journals, and at the (formerly) Macromedia Developer's Center, well, let's just say that I'm keeping good company.

Funny thing is that I've become such good buddies with most of these guys and gals that I really don't think of them so much as accomplished authors, but more as just good friends. Funny, smart, ornery, and talented friends. We're probably about as easy to manage as a herd of cats, but Ray West has done an admiral job of keeping things together for the last (nearly) 3 years.

So, enjoy the Open House. There's a lot of terrific articles and tutorials at CommunityMX that cover topics specifically related to the world of web design and development using (formerly) Macromedia tools. Of course with less than a week left for free access you'll be hard-pressed to work through all 1,415 articles and tutorials. One way to approach this would be to take a look at what each of our authors provides, as we all have our own specialties. Some examples:

Tom Muck for articles on ColdFusion and Flash Remoting and SQL
Adrian Senior for the practical application of CSS using Dreamweaver
Big John Gallant and Holly Bergevin for CSS theory and bug hunting
Jim Babbage on Fireworks techniques and photography
Kim Dudley for Freehand and print
Zoe Gillenwater for CSS design and integration using Fireworks and Dreamweaver
Paul R. Newman for all sorts of Flash goodness
Joey Lott on ActionScript
Tom Green on Dreamweaver and Flash, particularly Flash video
Heidi Bautista on ASP.net development using Dreamweaver
and Kim Cavanaugh for a grab bag of things from Fireworks to Flash to Breeze and more

OK, there are others, but I'd better stop before I feel obligated to list them all. But if you follow those links you'll have a good overview of what is offered and be able to dig in from there. Enjoy!