128 Web Development Workflow
Creating content assets
After you know what your design and layout will look like, you can create
and gather the assets that you will need for your website. Assets can be
items such as images (including buttons, banner graphics, logos,
photographs, and so on), text, Flash content, or other media.
Working with graphics and photos
You can use Fireworks to create graphics and process photos for your
website. In Fireworks, everything is editable, all the time.
Fireworks has bitmap-editing tools as well as vector-editing tools.
Fireworks enables you to enhance graphics by applying bevels, embossing,
drop shadows, glows, and other effects to vector objects, bitmaps, and text.
Fireworks also generates JavaScript, which makes rollovers, buttons, and
pop-up menus easy to create, and its optimization features shrink the file
size of web graphics without sacrificing quality. Fireworks makes it easy for
you to work with images by including batch process and photo retouching
tools, including red eye removal.
For example, you might create the following banner graphic in Fireworks:
Fireworks integrates with other Studio products to help you optimize
your workflow. After you include images in your site, you can start, edit,
and work in Fireworks without ever leaving the Dreamweaver or
Flash workspace.
Related tutorials
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Chapter 7, “Tutorial: Handling Photographs,” on page 183
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Chapter 8, “Tutorial: Creating a Page Banner,” on page 195
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Page 342: ...342 Tutorial Setting Up Your Website for Contribute Users...
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