Adobe FireWorks
Has anyone here had experience designing a full site on Fireworks. I tried using it for the first time last week, and I've got to say that I'm impressed, and I can't believe I got by without it in the past. In a
few clicks it is capable of creating a fantastic looking design that looks entirly unique.
My only qualm is that it doesn't link well with Dreamweaver.
Greg K posted this at 02:54 — 5th February 2007.
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Well it is supposed to go well with dreamweaver, supposed to be pulled in as library or template (or both, i forget). I never liked using the built in way to get it to an actual web page, I would let it splaice it and then code it in myself.
-Greg
Megan posted this at 14:06 — 5th February 2007.
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This site was designed in Fireworks. I like it for a certain style of design, like this one. Crisp edges and interestring shapes. Not so good with anything involving photos, and true vector applications are really better for crisp lines so that's what I'm using now (Inkscape).
Megan
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thrawn posted this at 20:42 — 5th February 2007.
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Really? That is surprising, how did you encorperate the forum aspect into the fireworks design? Also, what is a vector design?
Thank you
Greg K posted this at 02:54 — 6th February 2007.
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Vector graphics are built by defining objects, ie. draw line from (x,y) to (x,y) Examples of these are Illustrator, CorelDraw, Freehand, WMF
Bitmapped graphics define what color each pixel is set to Examples of these are Photoshop, Corel PhotoPaint, BMP, GIF, JPG
For more info, see http://www.eastbywest.com/pub/vectorbitmap/
-Greg
krytical posted this at 14:05 — 27th February 2007.
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The only real bugs for me when using the export feature within fireworks is the way that it build tables by adding 1 pixel spacers everywhere and also lines of comments stating proudly that fireworks was responsible for this!
timjpriebe posted this at 14:33 — 27th February 2007.
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I typically design my sites in Fireworks, but then don't use the actual HTML it generates, unless I'm in a huge hurry (rush job for clients). Instead, I use the images from the slices and create CSS and HTML that is much cleaner and more web-designer-friendly.
Tim
http://www.tandswebdesign.com
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