In this first part of Prototyping with Adobe Fireworks you will learn how to build a navigation bar with states, menus and sub menus (check video 1 and 2).

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With the release of Fireworks CS5, you will transfer custom assets from Fireworks CS4 to CS5: keyboard shortcuts, styles, textures, patterns, common libraries, dictoniaries, workspaces, preferences, swatches, etc.

To know where to go check: Fireworks folders and preferences for Windows and Fireworks folders and preferences for Mac.

1-px lines are very common in all designs but in the other hands it might be not very safe to use them.

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This article is a description of auto-sizing and fixed-width options for the text blocks. Watch the videos.

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A bit of typogragraphy today with straight quotes and smart quotes.

The problem is that since Fireworks CS4 you no longer get straight quotes. What you type are smart quotes and the quotes you want to import are automatically converted into smart quotes. There is a workaround.

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You don’t need to open documents in Fireworks you can drag and drop Fireworks files from the Windows Explorer or from Internet to Adobe Fireworks and use the Toolbar area to create new tabs. Check the videos.

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In Fireworks, the .PNG extension can be used as the native format (or source file) and as an export format (PNG is an export format in Fireworks) causing confusion among beginners.

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In this article you will learn about the different methods of interpolation/scaling in Fireworks and the technique to downscale and upscale a bitmap.

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Fireworks Zone and Adobe are holding a design contest.

Use your imagination and design/illustration to create wallpapers using Adobe Fireworks. Size: 1280×960. The theme is open with one wallpaper per contestant. Good luck!

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In this article you will learn how the 2 style folders work and how to package a style as a MXP package.

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This updated article covers what you can do with the Marquee tool and its limitations.

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This updated article shows how to add text to plain and compound symbols. Check out 2 new videos.

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In this updated tutorial, see the workflows which enable you to understand how the system works when you create new documents.

Check 2 new videos.

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Check the latest articles of the Fireworks Developer Center.

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This article has been dramatically updated with the addition of 3 new Camtasia videos showing how to customize the interface, tabs and workspace, and finally the panels.

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This article describes thoroughly the symbol workflow between the canvas, the Document Library and the Common Library and the main issues attached to it. It concerns only static symbols as opposed to Compound Symbols aka Rich Symbols.

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This article covers how to add text to symbols: plain and Compound symbols (formerly rich symbols).

This subject is largely undocumented. In most literature you have a chapter on symbols and one on text but you will never get both.

Most of all, this is the first time I added audio to my Captivate videos.

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Adobe does not recommend renaming custom workspace layouts in Adobe Fireworks because it leads to a crash.

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This article covers the most important default folders and the largely undocumented preference files to fine tune and customize Fireworks.

This article is a comprehensive study and a journey deep inside Fireworks folders on Windows XP.

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This article shows the new UI Fireworks CS4 and how to create custom workspaces by moving and manipulating document windows, panels and docks.

Video tutorials illustrate all the actions which are difficult to describe only by words. Learn to customize your workspace to meet your needs.

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