10. Optimizing for the Web and Mobile

Lesson overview

Fireworks has its roots in web graphics so is no stranger to optimization—that balancing act of quality versus file size. Proper optimization minimizes quality loss while reducing file size, thus cutting download times for images. In previous lessons, you learned the basics of working with graphics in Fireworks. Now you’ll combine those skills with some new tools to optimize assets for web pages, and for web-page creation itself. In this lesson, you’ll learn how to do the following:

• Export a single image to a web-ready format

• Determine the optimal web format for a sliced graphic

• Use the Optimize panel and Preview views to optimize images

• Slice up graphics in a web-page mock-up using ...

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