Getting Started: Using Hotspots - Fireworks Tutorial


Getting Started: Using Hotspots

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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