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Fireworks 8

Charles Nadeau

Macromedia

David Sullivan

Sakson & Taylor

Table of Contents

  1. Introduction
  2. Create a Working Folder
  3. Import and Place Images
  4. Create a Composite of the Content Area
  5. Place Text and Images
  6. Export the Image for the Web
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Created:
12 September 2005
User Level:
Intermediate
Products:
Fireworks

Creating Page Mock-ups in Fireworks

Note: This tutorial is part of Fireworks Help and is also published in the Fireworks 8 LiveDocs. The product documentation is the central resource for learning to use Fireworks. To use Fireworks Help, just open Fireworks, select the Help menu, and navigate to the topic of your choice.

This tutorial will guide you through the basic tasks of creating a mock-up of a web page with Macromedia Fireworks 8. Page mock-ups are typically used to show proposed page designs to colleagues and clients. Once a design is approved, the mock-up is used by web designers as a blueprint to create the page.

In this tutorial, you'll create and save a new document, import and place images, create a composite of the content area, place text and images, and export the image for the web.

Requirements

To complete this tutorial you will need to install the following software and files:

Fireworks 8

Tutorials and sample files:

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About the author

Charles Nadeau is the Dreamweaver documentation manager. Charles wrote the user documentation for Dreamweaver UltraDev 1 and 4 as well as numerous articles and tutorials for the Support Center. Before joining Macromedia four years ago, Charles was a technical writer in Vancouver, B.C.

David Sullivan is a consultant with Sakson & Taylor in Seattle, WA. Prior to this, he was a web developer at Adobe Systems. David's work as a consultant includes writing, editing, and analyzing technical documentation and creating technical illustrations and graphics. He uses Macromedia products to create websites, online photo galleries, animations, and illustrations. Fireworks fits into his workflow as a nicely integrated tool with Flash and Dreamweaver. David is a native of the Pacific Northwest and grew up in the Bay Area of California. Among his interests are web design and digital photography.