Think about your site. Kim Cavanaugh, the author ofthis book, has created a companion site to her beginner's guide to Dreamweaver and Fireworks. She offers a series of tutorials to help newcomers to the software, and web design in general, with the creation of their pages. The tutorials that may be of most use to us at this point are:

Tutorial 1: Planning Your Site From the Ground Up. Offers advice on how to aproach and plan your site.
Tutorial 2: Planning a Site Structure. Builds on Tutorial 1 by bringing you into Dreamweaver, defining your site and building a structure based on your desing layout.
Tutorial 3: The Printed Word: Working With Text. Discusses the limitations of text in html code and offers techniques on how to manipulate its appearance on the page.

Intro to the software. If you're still not comfortable with navigating through the Dreamweaver environment, this page offers an overview of the Dreamweaver interface and helps explain what all those menus and toolbars do.

Tables are a good way to desing a site if you are creating pages that will be viewed by multiple browsers (Internet Explorer, Netscare Navigator, etc). If you've forgotten how to set up a table on you page,click herefor a brief tutorial to do just that.

Tables also allow web designers to easily design and lay out their pages. Tables can make for interesting sites without the added burden of multiple graphics. This articledescribes how you can add color to your pages with tables.

Why use cascading style sheets? The Macromedia site has provided a lot of information about using CSS in web page design. Being the inquisitive creatures that we are, we want to know why CSS are necessary. That question is answeredherein a tutorial on Macromedia's site andherein an article by Drew McClellan, web designer and author of the Dreamweaver Fever website.

Internal CSS
Internal CSS are what we are learning to use now. Wellesley College offers a good introductory tutorialon setting up internal CSS. With CSS, you can format text so that you can do such neat things ascreate hyperlinks that are not underlined.

External CSS
External CSS offer the same convenience as internal CSS but are used by designers applying styles to multiple pages. If you would like to get started using external CSS, you can visit this pageorthis onefor a brief overview on setting up a standard CSS page.

If you're really ambitious, try Drew McClellan'sCSS design tutorialon Macromedia's website.

Fireworks can be used for more than just creating banners, but the program itself can be a little intimidating what with all the toolbars and menu options.. I searched the web and was surprised at how versatile a program Fireworks really is. There are hundreds of things you can make for your webpages.

Over at Kim Cavanaugh's site, there's a tutorial on getting started with Fireworks. It covers most of what we've already covered in class but is a good refresher.

Joyce Evans has a put together some great Flash video tutorials on creating buttons, menu buttons that change color with mouseover and resizing images. Check further down the page for more downloadable videos and written tutorials on things like fading an image into the backround or photos with rounded corners.

Practical Uses
Did you know you can create computer screenshots with Fireworks? A tool like that would come in handy for business presentations. Click here to learn how.

This link explains how you can create pop-up menus. Nothing too fancy here.

Click here to learn how to use Fireworks to create composite images that allow web pages to load faster.

Elegant two-tone text would add a classy, professional touch to your site.

Just For Fun
Create a treasure map with Fireworks!

Want to add your animated signature to your web page? This tutorial will show you how.