mockups in a Flash This, I think, is one of the cooler tricks in the world of Flash design. Let's say you have a meeting with a client this afternoon and you have yet to start creating mockups for the new Flash application. So you pop open Flash and start whipping up frame after frame of possible layouts for the project, and later discover that you forgot to charge your laptop battery last night and you'll need the mockups in print. You think to yourself, "I've got 20 frames of content here and one animation. It'll take forever to print all this." Choose File > Print Margins. In the dialog box, leave the margin settings as they are, but choose All Frames from the Frames menu and Storyboard –

Grid or Storyboard – Boxes from the Layout menu. Click OK; then print. What flies out of your printer is a page with 18 boxes on it, each of which displays one frame of the Timeline This tutorial is part of Fireworks Help and is also published in the Fireworks 8 LiveDocs.

The product documentation is the central resource for learning to use Fireworks. To use Fireworks Help, just open Fireworks, select the Help menu, and navigate to the topic of your choice. This mockups will guide you through the basic tasks of creating a mock-up of a web page with Macromedia Fireworks 8. Page mock-ups are typically used to show proposed page designs to colleagues and clients. Once a design is approved, the mock-up is used by web designers as a blueprint to create the page. In this tutorial, you'll create and save a new document, import and place images, create a composite of the content area, place text and images, and export the mockups image for the web.