No need to constantly look at the property Inspector when positioning objects. Tooltips will give you a heads up display of the X and Y location in real time. Similarly when you create or modify an object width and height are automatically displayed.

The set of arrows has been updated. The new set has now 137 arrows which are coming as vectors or symbols in the Document Library. You can eventually transfer the symbols from the Document Library to the Common Library to be shared across documents. Read more.

This new command of Fireworks CS4 enables you to create an AIR application from a fireworks prototype. Read more.

Those terms are more and more common in the Fireworks jargon since Fireworks is now the rapid prototyping specialist.

The starting point is the creation of the structure of a web page or a website: layout of the fundamental elements with navigation (with or without interactivity) with no colors, graphics, or fonts. After approval of the first wireframe a more detailed version is proposed and so on until the HTML layouts.

Creating a set of wireframes is also called a story board and each new wireframe an iteration.

Those techniques are very similar and are attempts to make the website building process more rational to avoid making endless changes and the programmers tweaking their code too often. Read More.

Useful links:

• Web Site Wireframe
• Website Wireframe
• Wireframing with Fireworks CS3

In a new video, Rick Jones, the new Fireworks manager, is talking about PDF export, the new Attach in path feature and CSS Export.

Adobe link: Fireworks CS4 feature tour

FontList is a very handy Fireworks extension that allows you to quickly preview all the fonts installed on your computer. You can apply directly your fonts to your text and place your favorite fonts inside 3 tabs. A huge time saver. A must have. Read more.

In Fireworks CS4 you have 2 new tools to make measurements to give you values such as width, height and angle. Read more.

Since Fireworks CS4 is full of new tools and commands tutorials and videos are badly needed to learn them all. Here are my best resources available:

Layers Magazine

Video Tutorials on TV Adobe and particularly David Hogue’s videos to learn everything about adding interactivity (through layers, pages, states and Behaviors) to a prototype.

• Rapid prototyping
• The complete design process
• Information and interaction design
• Creating interactive prototypes

Not to mention Fireworks Zone’s started a new series of tutorials on Fireworks CS4. Here are the first to be read:

• Take Screenshot
• Demo Current Document
• Text Wrapping

Adobe Systems officially announced on 23rd September the introduction Creative Suite 4 product family. See article from the press room.

Adobe Creative Suites 4 are scheduled to ship in October 2008.

A new feature ‘Attach In Path‘ in Fireworks CS4 enables text wrapping around shapes. Read more.