In the final part of our web design tutorial on creating a homepage prototype, we demonstrate how to take the export from Fireworks, and add the finishing touches in Dreamweaver. After this part of the tutorial, you are ready to upload your site, or store it locally for your presentation to your client.
If you have missed the previous parts of this tutorial, you can see them here:
In the video tutorial, you will see us use the following, simple, Flash embedding code. This code is as follows:
I have mixed views on prototyping in Fireworks. On th eone hand moving away from static images and presenting clients with mock ups offfers a more realistic mockup for comment.
But I have found that many clients just don’t understand the difference between the prototype and the finsihed site. They thing that the tables based mockup is good enough to go live with and all that needs to be done is to add their content. Project timescales then get put under pressure.