Other Fireworks Features

Macromedia has far more features than I'm able to cover in such a small website. In fact, I have seen 800 page books that don't cover all of it's features. The fact that it does contain so many features shouldn't discourage you from trying it. Most features build on one and other, so once you come upon something new, you already have the primary skills necessary to accomplish your task. Here are a few of the features I haven't mentioned:

Image Maps

If you've created image maps in other applications, you're going to love the simplicity of creating them in Fireworks! Simply select an object, right-click and select "insert hotspot", and you're done. Later you can assign URLs to the hotspots and export all the html and graphics that're required to make your image map function.

library

If you have particlular items that you reuse often, simply drag the item onto the library panel, and the next time you need it, just drag it from the panel to the screen... this is especially useful for buttons and rollovers.

History

If you find yourself repeating blocks of commands over and over again, you can select those commands from the history panel, and add them to the menu as a single command. This is very similar to macros in other applications.

Customizability

You can customize where toolbars and panels appear on the screen, or if they appear at all. If you like, you can drag tabs from one panel to the any of the others, to minimize clutter on your screen and have all your favorite tools close at hand..

Add-ins

Add-ins are JavaScripts that you can download from the Internet, and use to add functionality to Fireworks. If you're adept at programming in JavaScript, you can easily add features or modify existing scripts to make Fireworks do just what you want it to!

Plug-ins

If you're used to using PhotoShop and have some plug-ins that you just can't live without, relax... Fireworks will use those plug-ins just fine. All you do is point the way to their locations and viola - they're ready to use.