Creating standards-compliant web designs with Fireworks CS4

For years, Fireworks has played a huge role in my workflow from design to finished page. However, there was an obvious gap where I had to manually write the markup and CSS after slicing and exporting the relevant images. The Fireworks CS4 team and I realised this obstacle and set out to address the issue with its CSS Export feature.

As a Fireworks and web standards evangelist, I decided to work with the Fireworks team to help produce an enhanced version of the CSS Export feature, which empowers you to create better, standards-compliant web pages.

Read the full article in the Adobe Fireworks Developer Center.

About the Author

Matt Stow

Matt is Izilla's Senior Creative Designer, who specialises in designing and developing accessible, usable and standards-compliant websites. Matt is an Adobe Fireworks evangelist and guru, and works closely with Adobe's product team.

20 comments so far

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    Graham Cox  |  November 21st, 2008 at 6:37 am said:

    I too use Fireworks to create my web pages and I have to say that its simply superb. Thanks for your useful post saying about the advanced features of Fireworks.

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    José Carlos  |  December 28th, 2008 at 6:13 am said:

    I am using Fireworks for many years to develop web pages and I was very surprised and pleased with the new features, with emphasis on export css.

    Thank you

    Jose Carlos

    Sao Paulo - Brazil

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    paranormal  |  January 26th, 2009 at 4:47 am said:

    thank the above information, it helps me learn a new

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    Master  |  April 22nd, 2009 at 1:47 pm said:

    thank the above information, before that i am not using fireworks but now i am thinking about it.

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    ran"usedforklifts"tan  |  May 26th, 2009 at 10:39 pm said:

    This is very helpful… thanks for making fireworks more accessible.

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    Internet banking software  |  July 24th, 2009 at 10:35 pm said:

    I too have been using Fireworks to create web pages & its is excellent. Thanks for sharing the info.

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    Itaz  |  September 2nd, 2009 at 10:04 pm said:

    Being a Document Management Software Company, we do generate a number of web pages and Fireworks has played a definitive role in our workflow from design to finished page. It is the export of HTML pages that concerns us, i.e. only of the graphical content. The more detail of these additional features you can provide would be most instructive

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    Slifer  |  September 11th, 2009 at 10:43 pm said:

    Can you give a detailed review of the additional features. We do use Fireworks and have found it utilitarian

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    Universal  |  September 12th, 2009 at 1:38 am said:

    This information is utilitarian. Fireworks with its enhanced features is truly beneficial.

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    Web 2.0 Tools  |  September 16th, 2009 at 11:03 pm said:

    I love Fireworks, and I think its getting more popular :)

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    BS Motoring  |  September 17th, 2009 at 1:31 am said:

    I have found your information on Fireworks very useful and handy

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    Omrah  |  September 26th, 2009 at 1:39 am said:

    I have found Fireworks useful in creating and including webpages on my site and it has enhanced the quality of my site efficiently enough

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    ebusinessuk  |  September 28th, 2009 at 11:30 pm said:

    The CSS Export feature has added value to Fireworks. Thanks

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    Offshore Company Formation  |  October 20th, 2009 at 11:34 pm said:

    The CSS Export feature is a great value addition to Firefox. The manual exporting of pages was quite a hindrance in our line of work.

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    digitalmediareview  |  November 24th, 2009 at 7:09 am said:

    very informative article. Lots of useful information. thx

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    genemco  |  November 26th, 2009 at 5:19 pm said:

    FireWorks is indeed an asset in creating web pages swiftly and efficiently.

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    Kasper Larsen  |  December 24th, 2009 at 10:26 am said:

    I have never been using fireworks before but after reading this article I will think about trying it out. Thanks for sharing the info Matt :-)

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    Sarah  |  February 19th, 2010 at 6:40 pm said:

    I have always liked fireworks and hope the best in its development.

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    AP  |  March 17th, 2010 at 5:08 am said:

    I never use Fw Cs4 only Ps Cs4. Maybe i should try. Thanks for the reference.

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    cinsel saglik kozmetik diyet  |  May 14th, 2010 at 3:43 am said:

    The CSS Export feature is a great value addition to Firefox.

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