Faster, more efficient, and with a raft of new features that encourage creativity and collaboration, Fireworks MX 2004 represents an essential upgrade to Macromedia¿s popular Web graphics program: If you don¿t already know Fireworks, now would be a good time to learn it, and if you do already know it, now would be a good time to relearn it¿in the form of this latest (and greatest) upgrade! Either way, this Macromedia-authorized guide has the answers. Through 11 hands-on, project-based lessons and 16 to 20 hours of instruction, you¿ll tackle everything from editing bitmaps and creating interactive buttons to optimizing and exporting pages as HTML files. On the companion CD, you¿ll find a demo version of Fireworks MX 2004 as well as all the media files you need to complete the book¿s sophisticated, professional-level projects. You¿ll even find completed files that you can use to compare with your own results. It¿s time to start creating your own fireworks with Fireworks MX 2004!
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Faster, more efficient, and with a raft of new features that encourage creativity and collaboration, Fireworks MX 2004 represents an essential upgrade to Macromedia¿s popular Web graphics program: If you don¿t already know Fireworks, now would be a good time to learn it, and if you do already know it, now would be a good time to relearn it¿in the form of this latest (and greatest) upgrade! Either way, this Macromedia-authorized guide has the answers. Through 11 hands-on, project-based lessons and 16 to 20 hours of instruction, you¿ll tackle everything from editing bitmaps and creating interactive buttons to optimizing and exporting pages as HTML files. On the companion CD, you¿ll find a demo version of Fireworks MX 2004 as well as all the media files you need to complete the book¿s sophisticated, professional-level projects. You¿ll even find completed files that you can use to compare with your own results. It¿s time to start creating your own fireworks with Fireworks MX 2004!
About the Author
Patti Schulze is the founder and president of Digital Training + Designs (www.digitrain.com), a Macromedia, Apple, Quark, and Adobe Authorized Training Center in Dallas, Texas. Patti has created many Web sites: from recommending the hardware, installing the software, and developing databases and e-commerce functionality, to designing the graphics and coding the HTML. She is the author of Macromedia Dreamweaver 4 Fireworks 4 Studio: Training from the Source, Macromedia Fireworks MX: Training from the Source, and Macromedia Dreamweaver 4: Training from the Source also from Macromedia Press.
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By Scott B "nitetech125" (Walden, NY United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Macromedia Fireworks MX 2004: Training from the Source (Paperback)
An excellent addition to the training from the source series. The lessons are very effective and informative. I have several years experience with Photoshop and I was lost with Fireworks until I picked up this book. Fireworks MX 2004 is a very powerful program.
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Nice, succinct introduction to FWMX,
By Joe reader (austin, tx United States) - See all my reviews
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As a 10-year Photoshop veteran, I was always wary of Fireworks. But it has some amazingly nice features and (much as I hate to admit it) blows Photoshop/ImageReady out of the water with web productivity features.This book has 11 chapters which tutor the reader by developing a simple web site. The accompanying CD has all the image assets, as well as all the assignments from the preceding chapter (so those of us too impatient to do as directed and save our files as we work, or who improvise during a lesson, can start with an up-to-date version of where the design should be). The last chapter gives a basic walkthrough of integrating the Fireworks design into a Dreamweaver site. The language is clear and concise, the exercises are realistic, and there are plenty of tips and shortcuts sprinkled throughout. So much of Fireworks is similar to Photoshop or Flash, that I was able to complete all 11 chapters in less than a day at a comfortable pace.
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I came here to give the book a five star after finishing it this morning. After reading "joe reader's" review I'll just agree with him except, if your new to Macromedia, don't plan on absorbing this book in one day. It is thorough. What Patti does as an author is to make things easy with a nicely written step by step walk through of very powerful program. No mistakes or surprises that I could see. You will learn Fireworks and further you'll learn how powerful Fireworks is as a stand-alone program and as a front-end/companion to Dreamweaver.
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