Chapter 11. Advanced Prototyping

Lesson overview

Fireworks gives you the power (and the tools) to create fully interactive, clickable HTML mockups. In Fireworks, it’s easy to create button rollovers and emulate pop-up windows.

As you work through this lesson, remember that Fireworks is an excellent graphics editor; however, it is not designed to be, nor should you expect it to be, an HTML web page editor.

In this lesson, you’ll learn how to do the following:

  • Create a multipage website mockup

  • Use the Slice tool to slice up graphics in a web page mockup

  • Use the Slice tool to create a rollover effect

  • Use the Hotspot tool to trigger a disjointed rollover (pop-up window)

  • Simulate a Spry data table (disjointed rollovers)

  • Preview an interactive web page design ...

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