Fireworks CS4
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- jayoh
Just watching an Adobe seminar video on Fireworks CS4 for wireframing and web mock-ups and converting these to CSS etc.
Does anyone here use this now or we still all on Photoshop?
- visionary0
I've known people who use FW instead of ps who swear by it. I wish I did too because fw has a smooth interface. other than that, bah.
- threadpost0
our vp of interactive cd swears by it. I used it years ago, but haven't touched it in probably 7 years. I hear its come a long way.
- liquid0
I used to use it a couple of years ago... now for designing I use PS... but I still use fireworks to chop stuff, create animated gifs, and to do fast wireframes.
can you post the video?
- jayoh0
I used it while I was at school - when it was new - somewhere around 1999 I think. I always found it was kinda pointless since PS could do most of that stuff and all the HTML/CSS export stuff back then was kinda bogus.
- jayoh0
https://xd.adobe.com/?trackingid…
You'll need a free hour though :(
- liquid0
or 2 monitors :-) thanks for the link
- Humanhand0
I use it exclusively for site design. The tools, features and UI surpass PS by a mile in service of this.
While it has all the trimmings to program and make functionality items (rollovers, nav etc.) the code is super janky (read: super bloated DWeaver'esqe)
- ninjasavant0
I use FW mostly for making comps now switching from PS. From a mockup perspective there are some definite pros. From ability to draw things on screen there are some pretty big cons compared with photoshop but overall I still swear by it for mockups.
- mightyj0
The workflow that I have always used is photoshop then to fireworks and if using flash then to flash. There are some great features in fireworks that make it easy to go straight into flash (ie. creating graphics and text fields with instance names right in FW etc). They both are very different and not sure how they are being compared in this topic. Photo manipulation and heavy graphic manipulation is really more in the strength of photoshop and I don't think that was ever the direction for fireworks. It is more for wire framing and cutting up. Also IMO it is also great for adding small elements like vectors and etc after the fact.
- version30
Happy 4th of July!!!... oh wait....
- jayoh0
Thanks for your 2cents'
Speaking of "super bloated DWeaver'esqe code" what do you web guys use for CSS and XHTML? I still use Dreamweaver as I like the site management/FTP features and like a WYSIWYG / Code view too. I still hand edit all the code DW creates but is there anything else that does this better?