Macromedia Fireworks

Pros: Control over your total Web site.
Cons: Must use often to stay familiar with the tools.

My last review was about my current and continued experience with Macromedia’s Dreamweaver 4. How could I possibly not include a review on Fireworks 4 to the Epinions.com site?

Just the mere word - Fireworks, invokes that...

Pros: Easy to Use, Quite Powerful
Cons: Expensive. Memory Hog

I am not a web graphics professional. I do not even play one on television. The last art class that I took was my Junior year in high school, about 17 years ago. Therefore, if I tell you that Fireworks is the easiest thing to use to create great...

Pros: Not too hard to use, great for beginners and advanced users as well
Cons: Limited photoshop style features, limited javascript behaviours

Of all the web authoring tools available, the one I use most is Fireworks 3. I have not found another program that streamlines the process of producing sophisticated tables this well. It makes it so easy, I would even recommend it to novice web builders...

Pros: easy to use, tons of features, great support and website
Cons: Make sure you have lots of RAM for a snappy response

Wasn't it The Doors who sang that annoying song with the lyrics that belted out repetitively "Light my fire, light my fire, light my fire...?" Well Macromedia could make that the theme song for their new version Fireworks 3 and I wouldn't find...

Pros: Powerful image-manipulation tools
Cons: out of reach for the general user

Ok, so there really isn’t any ground breaking new features in Fireworks 2. And be warned, this is not for a beginner! Still, version 2 is a perfect companion to Macromedia's Web-site designer, Dreamweaver 2. Using both tools makes switching between Web...

Pros: Perfect for Web Designers
Cons: Some unfamiliar territory for Print Folks

Fireworks 3 is one of the most impressive products I've come across in some time. I never thought that anything could wean me away from Photoshop, but Photoshop is now only a program I use to prep elements for Fireworks. when version 4 comes out, I'll...

Pros: Limitless possibilities, Economical, Powerful all-in-one solution, Vector based, Flexible, Live effects, Never crashes!
Cons: A very different interface than photoshop... takes time to learn

I read a review on here saying that Fireworks is a very limited program, and I quote: "You get hardly any control over the image." I was so enraged that I just had to write my opinion.

That quote is so untrue! Please do not miss out on this...

Pros: Produces Great Results!
Cons: Takes a little time to learn

I use many of Macromedia's programs, but Fireworks has really impressed me. This program not only allows you to create cool graphics and edit existing graphics, but you can create animated gifs, and rollover images relatively easy. It's seamless...

Pros: Specifically tailored for web graphics
Cons: Somewhat limited performance compared to full-blown editors

Designing graphics for use on websites can be a quite lengthy and frustrating matter. Often one has to use a variety of specific editors to achieve the desired results, and it isn't easy keeping track of tens, or hundreds, of graphic files while doing...

Pros: Extensible; very flexible. Good value for the money. Integrates well with Dreamweaver.
Cons: I found the documentation somewhat obscure. Lot's of features make the learning curve a little steep.

My exposure to Fireworks 3 came about as a result of a very large Internationalization project for a Web-enabled commerce package.

Typical international sites contain maybe between 0% and 5% graphical UI content. The reason is that it is...

Pros: Best product, period.
Cons: that more people don't know about it

It's the best web graphics program on the market. Forget Adobe's Image Ready. Fireworks, in conjunction with Dreamweaver, gives you everything you need. It allows you to perform a vast number of HTML funtions with your graphics. It takes only minutes...

Pros: makes editing easier than ever. text manipulation is better than anything else I've seen
Cons: doesn't allow you to directly save as a format other than the fireworks extension, you have to use the export option

I'm not much of an Imaging expert, but I know what I like. For the longest time when I wanted to attempt and make a "neat" graphic, I would stumble my way around Adobe Photoshop. It would just take me far too long for what should be a seemingly...

Pros: Very useful for web graphics
Cons: Takes some time to learn

This is not a toy. Not to sound high and mighty, it would be very frustrating as a toy.

First off, I used Fireworks 3.0 not 2. Second, I am a part-time graphic designer by trade and I graduated college with an Art/Graphic Design minor....

Pros: HTML Integration, Graphic Optimization, Compatibility
Cons: Can be overwhelming

Recently, Macromedia announced version 3.0 of its powerful graphics editing and creation program, FIREWORKS (FW).

I am not in the position to say that FW is the best graphics program out
there. For as we all know there are several others...

Pros: Easy to use
Cons: less control over images

As a professional print designer living in a web designer world, I have found a whole host of new products that supposedly make web design easier and faster.... Macromedia Fireworks is one of those programs.

There are some pretty decent...