• Covers all Fireworks features, including new interface elements, the Properties Inspector, on?screen text editing, vector tools, new transparency and object layer tools, and more!
• Provides amazing tips for rollovers, layers, frames and slices.
• Shows how to take advantage of Fireworks? excellent image compression, export options, and image tweening, plus its easy?to?use GIF animation engine.

Includes "Fireworks Technique" ideas such as Incorporating Rollovers in Image Maps and Mastering Creative Edges provide real?world examples throughout the book.
Shows how to work more effectively by taking advantage of Fireworks? special integration with Dreamweaver and Flash.

ABOUT THE CD?ROM
The Windows/Mac CD?ROM is loaded with Fireworks commands, templates, textures, gradients, strokes, and images, plus Fireworks training lessons and tryouts of other Macromedia products.

This title covers all Fireworks features, including new interface elements, the Properties Inspector, on-screen text editing, vector tools, new transparency and object layer tools, and more.

"Joseph Lowery and Derren Whiteman provide details and examples essential for the Web graphics professional."
—David Morris, Fireworks Product Manager, Macromedia

• Create traffic?stopping vector or bitmap Web graphics and animations
• Build eye?catching effects using layers, rollovers, frames, and slices
• Master the new interface and improved graphics and Web connectivity tools

If Fireworks MX can do it, you can do it too . . .

From vector drawing and bitmap editing to animations and JavaScript output, Fireworks MX puts all the Web graphics tools you need into a single cohesive package. Packed with time?saving tips and real?world examples – including 16 pages of color illustrations – this comprehensive guide shows you how to make the most of Fireworks, whether you’re looking for an in?depth tutorial on program fundamentals or the lowdown on the new interface or new options for transparent gradients, text editing, and pop?up menus.

Inside, you’ll find complete coverage of Fireworks MX

• Master the basics, from object creation to full?blown photo manipulation
• Enhance your images with sophisticated fills, filters, xtras, layers, and Live Effects
• Build in interactivity using hotspots, slices, and JavaScript behaviors – no coding required
• Speed up production with styles, libraries, and round?trip workflow features
• Make the most of sliced file auto?checkout, XHTML support, and other new tools for Dreamweaver integration
• Get up to speed fast on GIF animation and create state?of?the?art banner ads

Bonus CD?ROM

• Fireworks commands, templates, textures, gradients, strokes, and images
• Macromedia Flash MX, Dreamweaver MX, Fireworks MX, and FreeHand trial versions
• Splat!, Eye Candy 4000, and Xenofex demo versions by Alien Skin Software

Joseph Lowery has been writing about computers and new technology since 1981. He is the author of the current and previous editions of Dreamweaver Bible and Fireworks Bible as well as Buying Online For Dummies (all from Wiley Publishing, formerly Hungry Minds, Inc.). He recently co?wrote a book on Flash with designer Hillman Curtis and has written books on HTML and using the Internet for business. His books are international best?sellers, having sold over 300,000 copies worldwide in ten different languages. Joseph is also a consultant and trainer and has presented at Seybold in both Boston and San Francisco, Macromedia UCON in the U.S. and Europe, and at ThunderLizard?s Web World. As a partner in Deva Associates, Ltd., Joseph developed the Deva Tools for Dreamweaver set of navigational extensions. Joseph and his wife, dancer/choreographer Debra Wanner, have a daughter Margot.

Derren Whiteman?s online life began before the invention of the World Wide Web, when data moved across the Internet, and online communities were based around electronic bulletin board systems (BBS). He built Web sites "by Hand" in the early days of the World Wide Web?because that was how you made them in those days?and later took up modern tools after joining Mediafear, a San Francisco?based Web design shop where he spent three years building dynamic Web sites for artists and musicians. Derren has also served as an information technology consultant and computer instructor, enabling individuals and small businesses to use technology to their greatest advantage.
Derren spends much of his time in technical publishing, helping to make today?s Web?building tools accessible to everyone. He served as Technical Editor for versions 3 and 4 of Joseph Lowery?s Fireworks Bible (Hungry Minds, Inc.) and Dreamweaver 4 Bible (Hungry Minds, Inc.). Other books that Derren worked on include Mastering Dreamweaver 4 and Fireworks MX (Sybex, Inc.), Look & Learn Dreamweaver 4 (Hungry Minds, Inc.), and From FrontPage to Dreamweaver (Sams Publishing).
Derren is a Macromedia Certified Dreamweaver 4 Developer and a volunteer member of Team Macromedia for Fireworks. He makes his home in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.