Faster, more efficient, and with a raft of new features that encourage creativity and collaboration, Fireworks MX 2004 represents an essential upgrade to Macromedia¿s popular Web graphics program: If you don¿t already know Fireworks, now would be a good time to learn it, and if you do already know it, now would be a good time to relearn it¿in the form of this latest (and greatest) upgrade! Either way, this Macromedia-authorized guide has the answers. Through 11 hands-on, project-based lessons and 16 to 20 hours of instruction, you¿ll tackle everything from editing bitmaps and creating interactive buttons to optimizing and exporting pages as HTML files. On the companion CD, you¿ll find a demo version of Fireworks MX 2004 as well as all the media files you need to complete the book¿s sophisticated, professional-level projects. You¿ll even find completed files that you can use to compare with your own results. It¿s time to start creating your own fireworks with Fireworks MX 2004!
Customer Reviews
Average Rating:
Rating: - Great beginners book
Step-by-step, easy to follow instructios, with clear pictures and diagrams to indicate where to find the tools they want you to use. The projects in this book teach the basics in ways that users will be able to put to immediate use for their own projects. I found it especially useful since I have no training at all with any graphics programs, this book really helped me understand what tools were available and how to use them in effective ways.
I cannot stress enough, however, that this ... Read More
Rating: - A value for money purchase
This book starts from the very basics in a clear and well set out format making it one of the value for money books on my shelf.
Rating: - Good Reference Book
I have been through this book and its companion book for Freehand MX and have the same comment for this one that I had for the Freehand MX version. Almost Great! Thorough enough to be used as a reference but the actual examples need some editing. There was a lack of consistency to simple things like "select both items" being sometimes written and sometimes left to the reader to figure out. Overall, a good book for a beginner who will refer to it often for a reference.
Rating: - A Great Tutorial (but not as good as the one for DREAMWEAVER)
I was blown away by the "Training from the Source" tutorial for DREAMWEAVER. That is why I had to have this one for FIREWORKS. I have to admit to being a little disappointed but that is mostly do to the previous book setting the mark so high. This is still a great tutorial to learn the program, especially for someone like me who knows nothing about this subject. This book is designed as an intro, not an advanced course.
A few of the qualities that this series seem to share are clear instructions, ... Read More
Rating: - Pretty good for beginners
This book is really great if your an absolute beginner. The instructions are easy and the tutorials with the CD make the book a great way to learn fast and easy. Maybe this is not the book you want if you really want to go into Fireworks more. I felt like I needed to know more stuff than the book taught me. There's a lot you can do with Fireworks, but the book doesn't take you all the way. It's a really great way to get from absolute beginner to advanced intermediate.
- Great beginners book
- Good Reference Book
