Any Square One course can be tailored to meet the particular requirements of your organisation.
We will be happy to use any of your examples for delegates to ensure that the course is as interesting and relevant as possible.

Requirements: Good Mac or PC skills

Fireworks is the ultimate web graphics application. During the course delegates will learn the essential tools required to bring a web page to life, from simple rollover buttons to highly effective, interactive images.

Delegates are also introduced to the optimization feature, where large image file sizes are dramatically reduced for faster web page downloads.

Duration: 2 days
Timings: 9:30 - 16:30

The subjects listed on the left are an outline. If there are any additional subjects you wish to cover, please feel free to call us prior to the course.

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Macromedia Fireworks

Introduction

About graphics on the web
Planning graphic content
Download times
Image formats

Setting preferences
Using the menu bar/panels
Working with image/object modes
Creating a new document
Importing images/graphics
Magnifying
Using the info palette

Using the selection tools
Selection options
Feathering

Working with the drawing tool
creating shapes/lines
Working with the colour tools
Using the colour table
Using the colour mixer
Working with swatches

Using the modify bar
Rotating/scaling vectors
Grouping/splitting
Arrange & align
Merging vectors
Masking with vectors

Inserting text
Using the text palette
Typography & formatting
Using styles & effects
Saving styles
Putting text on a path

Adjusting levels
Hue, saturation & brightness
Sharpening/blurring
Photoshop plug-ins

Working with the layers palette
Creating/deleting layers
Changing layer order
Swapping layer content
Maintaining layers
Sharing layers

About animation
Using tweening
Working with symbols/instances
Animated symbols
Using the frames panel
Frame x frame animating
Frame timing
Using onion skinning
Instance to instance animating

Ready for the web
Using the web tools
Using the web layer
Creating image maps (hotspots)
Map settings
Setting up links
Inserting slices
Naming & exporting slices

About JavaScript & behaviours
Setting up a rollover
Simple rollovers
Disjointed rollovers
Easy buttons
Drag & drop behaviours
Creating pop-up menus
Using the Link Wizard

Using the optimization panel
Comparison windows
Optimizing simple graphics/Quality images
GIF Vs JPEG – when & why
GIF’s & the colour palette
GIF colour options
JPEG’s & quality settings
Using the selective JPEG option
Using slices for multiple compression

Using the export options
Exporting in HTML
CSS Layers
Flash swf
Export previews
Using the Export Wizard
Integration with other applications