Adobe Fireworks is one of the most popular application choices amongst web designers for wireframing and prototyping. There are many reasons as to why you should use Fireworks over any other graphic editor, but we won’t go into them with this post (perhaps you could try this one: A Case for Adobe Fireworks against Photoshop and Illustrator). What this post will offer is a comprehensive starting point and reference for any designer who would like to take those first Fireworks [...]

I’ve been a full-on Fireworks user now since the first release way back when it was owned by Macromedia. What Fireworks offered then is still as true today. A true web design environment with the right tools to do the job you want. Bringing it back to it’s basics Photoshop and Illustrator are both products that…

Adobe Fireworks’ features and work-flow undeniably make it the industry pioneer and leader for web graphic prototyping and rapid web site building. Even though, with each new version, Adobe have slowly over-loaded it with new features – some of these have proved to be useful and popular, while others have simply been pointless – but at its core it will always remain a marvelously easy to use application for web designers. Despite the odd bug and the odd feature, it [...]

Resources for Adobe Fireworks seem to be few and far between, what is happening? Has Fireworks ran its course, or is it simply not cool any more? Was it ever cool? Photoshop was always the better and more powerful (definitely, harder to use), it seems to have totally taken over. I use Fireworks all the time for quick mock ups, and Photoshop for everything else. It is possibly the easiest graphics editor I have ever used, and would recommend it to anyone.

The answer is Adobe Fireworks CS3, Photoshops lesser used and lesser known little brother. Its far cheaper, easier to learn and reasonably light weight. But, can it be as powerful? Of course, it can.