Editing a Layout

what format is the file in?

"PNG image" it's a .png, is there other stuff that can edit that kind of file well?

Here is a list of graphics editors that support png but I don't know how up to date the list is or which ones are free. I found the list by doing a search on Google

Will these edit the images as far as html?

I have no idea! I didn't look at the list, just found it for you. I use Fireworks but I never use it to produce html, I use Dreamweaver/hand coding to place any graphics onto the html page.

Yea, i love the template but the fact that it's in fireworks really sucks...

A .png is just a raster graphic -- any bitmap graphics editor will work. It's not a layered file, it's just a flat image. It's not dependent on Fireworks. You cannot edit it other than writing on top of it -- it's like trying to edit a photo, you have to actually make changes to the photo.

The HTML is entirely different. If you had the original Fireworks document in the native format, you'd be able to edit it and the HTML that is produced.

That's just it, I need to edit the html...

If you have just a png file then you have no html! Maybe what you have is an image that needs to be sliced in order to do the page layout?

Maybe you could provide more details as to just what you have, where you got it from etc. etc.?

In short...many people do 'mockups' in programs like Photoshop and Fireworks. These images are then 'sliced', into smaller bits. Photoshop's ImageReady will actually output the html, or you could use an html editor or hand code the layout, placing the sliced bits of image where they need to go, adding content etc. etc.

Here's what I have: an index page that is made up of a bunch of gif images basically, and a readme file that says to use fireworks to edit...

What exactly do you want to change? If the images are gif files then they aren't native to fireworks and you can open them up in any graphics editor and make changes, as Suzanne says by over writing them.