Adobe Fireworks

1. More Organization: With Fireworks you can easily plan, and build splitting images, create a layout for a publication and organize large numbers of text blocks and images.

2. Mockups: Fireworks lets you quickly create a working mock-up. This makes it possible to show clients how the finished web page will look and easily incorporate suggested changes.

3. Vector Art: Fireworks offers handy vector tools, right next to its bitmap tweakers. You do not need to become a pro at Illustrator, easily create quick vector art. Fireworks offers a lot of ways for retouching bitmaps and doubles as a powerful vector editor.  It’s this unique blend that makes it so versatile.

4. Perfect-Pixel Accuracy: Fireworks lets you control the appearance of all the objects down to the exact number of pixels and precise axis coordination. Everything you place on your Fireworks canvas is exactly how it will appear in your export.

5. Fully-Functional Websites: It is quite possible to create an entire functional static web site using just Fireworks. The generated code isn’t very tidy but it works perfectly.  For prototypes, mock-ups and basic web design, it has everything you need. Fireworks have a powerful web layer. You can create buttons, navigation bars, hotspots and rollovers, all from within the program. With the pages panel it is possible to create and organize master and sub-pages, and then export working HTML and CSS files. The exported files can be customized through slices and optimization settings.

6. Easy To Use: You can start creating useful work much more quickly and gradually discover its immense capabilities as you become more proficient. It’s quite unlike the overwhelming feeling of ‘where to start’ beginners get with Photoshop and Illustrator.

7. Right Price: Fireworks are powerful, easy and versatile, though not a complete substitute for other Adobe products, there’s a lot you can do with it.