lynda.com, an award-winning provider of educational materials, has announced that it is shipping five new video-based tutorials covering Macromedia's Studio 8 release.

The new training titles available for purchase are:

Dreamweaver 8 Essential Training with Garrick Chow

• This course begins by covering basic Web authoring skills and progresses to demonstrate advanced topics like using Dreamweaver 8's new unified CSS style panel. This tutorial gives viewers all the tools they need to publish an entire site on the Web, and includes exercise files to make following along easy.

Flash Professional 8 Essential Training with Shane Rebenschied

• This course covers the animation processes, and describes how to integrate type, graphics, audio, and video. Nearly twelve hours of training plus exercise files enable even first-time users to create and design rich and robust Flash projects.

Fireworks 8 Essential Training with Abigail Rudner

• This training begins with an overview of the Fireworks 8 interface, then covers techniques such as working with vector tools, manipulating bitmap images, image optimization and exporting methods, as well as how to integrate with Dreamweaver 8 and Flash 8. Exercise files accompany the eleven hours of training videos.

Contribute 3 Essential Training with Tom Negrino

• This tutorial covers the ways in which Contribute allows less-technical people to edit a website without the possibility of accidentally "breaking" it, regardless of their level of Web design experience or familiarity with HTML. Negrino includes lessons on how to edit pages, create new pages, make pages based on Dreamweaver templates, add links, images, and tables, and much more.

Studio 8 Web Workflow with Abigail Rudner

• In this training, Rudner shows how the individual products in Macromedia Studio 8 can be effectively used together, and demonstrates how to work faster by employing real-life projects and scenarios with an emphasis on creative possibilities. Exercise files accompany the training videos.

Subscriptions to the lynda.com Online Training Library start at $25 per month, and provide online access to over 9,000 video tutorials, as well as more than 140 other titles covering a wide range of software, technologies, and techniques.