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Creating Macromedia Fireworks MX documents from HTML
Some web designers face a challenge when they inherit a website. While they have the end-product—the HTML files and associated images—they don't have access to the original source files from which that content was generated. And when it's time to maintain or update the site, they must laboriously rebuild the source files.
Macromedia Fireworks MX offers a solution: the ability to reconstitute (or import) HTML tables, so that you can create new PNG source files for the content. Once in Fireworks MX, web content can be modified in any number of ways. You can modify graphics, change a page's layout, alter links to URLs, and work with interactive elements like behaviors, buttons, and pop-up menus. The ability to reconstitute HTML tables in Fireworks MX also enables you to do the following:
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Modify the layout of a hard-to-format HTML table |
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Combine the content from two or more pages into a single document |
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Quickly and easily split out the tables from a single web page into multiple pages |
By completing this tutorial, you will get hands-on experience reconstituting HTML tables by opening and importing various types of web content in Fireworks.
To complete the tutorial, you'll need the following source files:
Download the Windows source files (1MB)
Download the Macintosh source files (1MB)
When the file decompresses, a folder named import_html is created on your system.
If you have trouble downloading or decompressing the files, see TechNote 13686.
- Identify web content that Fireworks can import
- Understand the limitations
- Create a new Fireworks document from an existing web page
- Import existing web content into the current Fireworks document
- Re-export as a single HTML table
- Create multiple Fireworks documents from a web page that contains more than one HTML table
- Export multiple tables for use in a frameset
- View the exported HTML files in a frameset
- Moving on
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Tonya Estes
Tonya Estes writes documentation and tutorials for Fireworks and FreeHand.
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28 May 2002 |
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