Joyce Evans

Everyone is toting a digital camera these days it seems and they have photos to share with you. I'm sure you're not one of those who want to bore family and friends with your gazillion pictures of your dog/cat/snake. Even if you are, you can now do it with some pizzazz and it's easier than you may think. You could send the photos via email but then they'd take forever to arrive and your family probably doesn't know how to open them anyway. So the best solution is a spiffy new photo gallery. Photo galleries aren't just for displaying personal pictures but they are widespread in the business world as well. The obvious use is for photographers. But there are a lot of less obvious uses as well, such as a portfolio of products, designs, sketches etc. I've built the Flash vers... (more)

Fireworks Image Optimization Basics

Users in most U.S. urban areas enjoy all kinds of options for high-speed connections, but most rural areas don't yet have that option, nor do a lot of other countries. You should keep in mind that the larger the file or combination of files on a Web page, the longer it takes to load. Connection speeds determine how long each file takes to load. Optimization, or getting your image to the s... (more)

Stretching the Curve

As a writer and a trainer, I am frequently asked how to make the popular curved navigation graphic. You know the one, top banner area, side bar with an inside curve (see Figure 1). Using Fireworks you'll be amazed at how simple this can be. You'll learn how to make the curve in two different ways. One way is automated and the other is not. By learning how to do it yourself, you'll learn ... (more)

Dreamweaver Tutorial: How To Build CSS Based Pop-up Menus...

In this tutorial, you will learn how to build a completely functional pop-up menu using CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) without knowing how to write any code at all! Below is an example of such a menu; An example of a CSS menu This tutorial takes only 25 minutes to complete. How to make pop up menus quick and easy With Fireworks 8 you can now design a decent pop-up menu with an optional rol... (more)

Introducing Fireworks 8

Until the introduction of Macromedia Fireworks in 1998, no single application had been dedicated to creating, optimizing, and exporting web graphics. Instead, we had to use several applications which did not play well together. Fireworks 1.0 offered a new approach: a single tool that supported the entire web graphics workflow from start to finish. Although Fireworks has the ability to pro... (more)