Using frames

You might remember from the Fireworks: Introduction class that this application organizes documents in layers and frames. Let us recall the differences between the two terms.

Layers in Fireworks can be compared to transparent pages of a binder that stack in front of a paper page. The paper page is the canvas of our document. Objects are placed on 'transparent' sheets which can be stacked freely. The canvas and all the layers are called a frame. Every Fireworks document has at least one frame.

You can create multiple frames in Fireworks. Let us follow our metaphor from above: You can add more paper pages with stacked transparencies into your binder. When you turn the paper page, you will see a different image. Theoretically the images on these pages can be completely different. Four our purposes however, we will duplicate the initial frame and only change some properties of the objects that were created in the first frame.

For our task we will use the frames of the document as containers for the different states of the navigational elements.

Please be aware that term frames in this context does not refer to HTML framesets and frames.