Chapter 3: Creating Buttons and Banners
In This Chapter
Creating simple buttons
Creating rollover buttons
From concept to completed page
Optimizing and exporting your Fireworks design
When you design a website, you create graphics that you use over and over and over and . . . you get the picture. Buttons can range from the mundane to passing-for-sane. In other words, you can have a site with buttons ranging from very utilitarian (you know, functional?) to very cool that are both functional and artistically gorgeous. Buttons are an integral part of your design. This chapter shows you how to create buttons and other graphics for your web design. So roll up your sleeves and get ready for a magical Fireworks tour de force.
Creating Buttons in Fireworks
You have to have navigation for a website. Without navigation, your visitors, looking at the home page, might yawn and say something like, “Is that all there is?” Hopefully not, if you expect to be a web designer for any length of time. It’s rare that a client needs a one-page website. When you create a multipage website, you need to provide ...
