Advantages of Fireworks CS3

[kekoadesign]

So I went to a job interview for a user interface designer for a .com company, all in all the interview went well. The one thing though was the design team works primarily on fireworks cs3. I have always been a photoshop, dream weaver, and some illustator type of guy. Would build up sites in photoshop then just use the slice tool and build the site up in dream weaver. Just wanting to know the main advantages of fireworks over photoshop?

 

[adamblan]

I typically follow the same approach you do: PS/Illy -> DW, although for my last site I did the layout w/ FW. Here's what I noticed:

- 9-slice scaling for round rects
- styles are easier to apply/change
- you can export layout to DW (uses tables, convert to <div> in DW)
- easy pop-up menus

I also noticed that you can't export slices as png in FW - which is surprising and the reason I ultimately went back to doing the layout w/ PS...