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Course Title:
Macromedia Fireworks

Duration: 1 day

Course Overview
A one-day course for those expecting to add graphics to their Website using Macromedia Fireworks. Some basic HTML experience is essential. Knowledge of PhotoShop, FreeHand, Illustrator and/or any other commercial graphics application is an advantage, although not strictly necessary. During the course of the day, students build up a complete website, with an emphasis on experimentation.

Course Content


Orientating yourself in Fireworks

Understanding the palettes

Introducing Web graphics

Resolution and format issues

Setting up a basic JPEG

Understanding bit depth, quality, smoothing, and export issues

Setting up a basic GIF

Understanding transparency

Interlacing and palette issues

Working with the 216-colour palette

Matching HTML-defined colours

Basic drawing

Brushes and fills

Colour definition

Text formatting

Working with layers

Complex drawing

Complex brush and fill variants, effects, conversion to bitmap

Applying filters

GIF animation

Working with frames

Tweening and symbols, timing and disposal methods

Filepath issues Imagemapping

Understanding imagemap formats

Defining URLs

Generating and exporting

The completed HTML structure

Rollovers

Working with frames

Generating and exporting the completed HTML structure

Imageslicing

Setting up Object properties

Exporting the completed HTML structure

PNG format images When to use PNG formats

Accommodating older browsers


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