any tips & tricks in making layouts or designs using fireworks?

my fireworks screenshot

That looks awesome You don't look like you need any tips or tricks :P

ehhehehe! oh i still do. i have difficulties in some areas like borders ang background... hey thanks for da reply

Space man your design on http://www.spaceman.coms.ph is awesome i made my website in Dreamweaver and i have the whole Macromedia Studio MX but i have absolutly no idea how to make such a cool design for my web site.

How did you do it? I want one! :P

P.S. Is that some kind of a diferent skin for windows your using? if yes can ya tell me where to get it?

Good to see a user having a nice catalogue of styles.
I always forget to create styles for text and images.. Thanks for the tip!

Macromedia.com is a great source for fireworks tips I have found.

i have difficulties in some areas like borders ang background.

What difficulties are you having? We do just about all our sites in fireworks/flash/dreamweaver

I design EVERY website in Fireworks first. I work until I have two design templates, one for the home page and one for the rest of the pages. Once I have the design I or the client wants, I then slice them for my Dreamweaver template.

Here are some finished web sites where I employed these methods:

Spring IT Training - www.springittraining.com

Productivity Point International - www.propoint.com

Scuba Diving Cozumel - www.scuba-diving-cozumel.com

PTA Central - www.ptacentral.org

School Sports - www.school-sports.org

Corvette Clothing - www.corvetteclothing.com

Ones I am working on right now:

http://www.karczford.com/new.htm

http://www.holzmotors.com

Just remember when you create your image, you will need to eventually port it iver to DW or your HTML editor, therefor, think things through!

hey sorreee guys it took me awhile 2 reply -- i wasn't xpecting 4 anyone 2 comment. + anywayz -

re: HBwebCrAzY > thanks! im glad u like the layout 4 my site ---- & i design'd & sliced everything > in fireworks nothing else. im having hard time xplaning it (me poor grammar) ehhehheheh!
if u want sample or anything.... just let me know i'l try if derz anything i can do 2 help.

hey man, would you mind making your styles available for download?

Great site man i was very impressed, cool windows sking too

Ok sure! il just post watever i can come up -----




[IMG]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v624/yo****me/sprayT.gif[/IMG]

Oh yeah forgot to post the window skin im using is windowsblind4 the skins i downloaded from deviant http://browse.deviantart.com/skins/w...er=17&limit=24

I think you can learn from some examples, like jawfish has posted some links. You can also see the two sites listed in my signature, both are been designed in fireworks.