 | Fireworks 4 f/x & Design |
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Product Description
Learn how to produce professional-level images, buttons, animations, navigation bars, and graphical interfaces for the Web. This guide goes beyond teaching the functions of Fireworks by providing real-world projects that can be effectively incorporated in a professional Web site. This book includes two CD-ROMs containing Special Comstock Stock Photography with over 12,000 comping images, trial versions of Dreamweaver®, Flash™, and Freehand®, as well as sample artwork to use in the projects. The foreword for this book was written by J. Scott Hamlin, director of Eyeland Studio and author of Flash 5 Magic.
Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #4178665 in Books
- Published on: 2001-05-18
- Format: Illustrated
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Binding: Paperback
- 360 pages
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About the Author
Joyce J. Evans has over 10 years of experience in teaching, tutorial development, and Web design. She authored Integrating Flash, Fireworks and FreeHand f/x & Design (Coriolis Group Books), received Editor's Choice Awards for her Fireworks 4 f/x & Design, and coauthored Dreamweaver 4: The Complete Reference. Currently, Joyce writes Web reviews, tutorials, and articles for Web Review, DT&G Graphic Design, The Internet Eye, and Art Today.
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Forward by J. Scott Hamlin (Author of Flash 5 Magic)
Only a few short years ago, Web designers were lucky if they could find a few web-oriented graphic utilities for doing things like Web animation and image mapping. Image optimization was practically impossible and generating HTML tables and JavaScript rollover events were often multiday jobs. Today, tasks such as these are all but automated by programs like Macromedia's fireworks 4.
The Web has long since demonstrated key advantages over the printed page, as the web has grown in sophistication, so have the demands on the Web designer. Fortunately, Macromedia has responded with an accelerated development cycle for tools like Fireworks, Flash and Dream weaver. In years past, popular desktop publishing program upgrades often took several years, but new Internet technologies crop up almost daily, making even an annual development cycle fell like a delayed reaction. On the other side of that is the Web designer who is forced to stay current with as many of these technologies as possible to remain competitive.
Perhaps, in the end, this is why programs like Macromedia Fireworks are so valuable. By reducing some of the most commonly required Web-design tasks from multiday prospects to a matter of 15-20 minutes, Web designers are ultimately freed up both to keep up with the industry trends as well as to focus more on design and less on the technical issues of implementing the design. While there's always a learning curve that comes with a new version of a program like Macromedia Fireworks, there's also, thankfully, books like Fireworks 4 f/x & Design to help us learn new features and capabilities as quickly as possible.
Joyce Evans has done a remarkable job of clearly and concisely uncovering the capabilities of Fireworks 4. Fireworks 4 f/x & Design doesn't resort to the fluff and nonsense so common in books these days. Rather, Joyce systematically covers the techniques and features in Fireworks 4 that are of real value to professional Web Designers. Fireworks 4 f/x & Design will allow you to quickly dispense with learning the tool and return to what you get paid to do: design Web pages.
J. Scott Hamlin Director, Eyeland Studio Author of: Flash 5 Magic
