Joyce Evans

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 m... (more)

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 e... (more)

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 t... (more)

Web development is a changing industry. Technologies are born, thrive, and then die, while web developers experience a great stress helping their clients get an Internet presence. Nowadays, the buzz word in web development is "dynamic." Not "dynamic" as in DHTML, but as in "using... (more)

Web development is a changing industry. Technologies are born, thrive, and then die, while web developers experience a great stress helping their clients get an Internet presence. Nowadays, the buzz word in web development is "dynamic." Not "dynamic" as in DHTML, but as in "using... (more)

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 t... (more)

A lot of tasks required to develop a Web site are repetitious and tedious. Have you ever had a folder full of images that you needed to add a border to? Or perhaps you want to reduce the size of every image. You'll probably even need to optimize each image as well. Well you can d... (more)

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 l... (more)

You have children who want to play with your programs. Or, you're a jigsaw puzzle aficionado and want to share your own work. With Fireworks, you can create a puzzle with as little as two shapes, using them to "cut" the rest of the pieces. Once the pieces are made you can get po... (more)