The Hot Spot tool in Fireworks is actually pretty simple to use:

1. Select an item that you want to act as a “link” in your document
2. Apply a destination URL or page in your document
3. That’s it!

Using it can be a bit tricky if you’ve never really worked with Fireworks before though, so in this video, we are going to show you how to use the tool to create hot spots, or internal links, in your own Fireworks based projects!

Let’s get started!


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Many of us have used the slicing tool in Photoshop at one point or another, so it’s easy to dismiss the slicing tool in Fireworks as the same tool.

In this video, we’re going to take a good hard look at what makes the Fireworks version of this tool so useful to web designers looking to shave off time and file size from their web design chop jobs!


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Today we’ll be looking at using “Hot Spots”, aka the Internal Linking tool, in Fireworks – this awesome little tool allows you to essentially create “links” inside of your Fireworks document that link to Pages in your site, or external URLs.

We’ll walk you through how to use the basic interface elements for this feature and we’ll create a simple project to showcase the various ways you can add hot spots to your own projects.

Tutorial Details

* Program: Fireworks
* Version: CS5+
* Est. Time: 5 minutes


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Today, we’re going to be showing you how to create multiple “behaviors”, also known as states within your document.

We are going to walk you through how to create a simple button with two different states (one for the normal state, one for the mouse-hover state). Then we’ll expand on this by putting the knowledge to use in the practice project we’ve been using for the series.


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