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Add to SafariWhen comparing Fireworks vs Avocode, the Slant community recommends Fireworks for most people. In the question“What are the best mockup and wireframing tools for websites?” Fireworks is ranked 4th while Avocode is ranked 33rd. The most important reason people chose Fireworks is:
From lo-fidelity wireframe, into clickable prototype and then assemble the images for the final hi-fi build as well.
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Pros
Pro Can be used for the entire life-cycle of the design
From lo-fidelity wireframe, into clickable prototype and then assemble the images for the final hi-fi build as well.
Pro Layer Sharing
Features such as 'Layer Sharing' allows you to quickly update shared components such as headers across multiple pages. Other mockup tools such as Mockingbird will require you to manually propagate changes across all the pages.
Pro PSD compatible
Open PSD files
Pro Awesome Symbol Libraries
A significant advantage over web-app style mockup tools are the symbol libraries for Fireworks.
From boagworld:
Both symbols, styles and vector shapes can be saved for re-use and collected into useful library resources. In addition Fireworks ships with a common library of useful objects including buttons, browser and application elements for both Mac and Windows look and feel.
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Pro Offers a 14-day free trial
Allows users to be able to get comfortable and familiar with the service before signing up and paying the subscription fee.
Pro Includes collaboration tools
Allows designers and developers to view revisions and interact on the fly by posting comments on the revisions instead of going through multiple e-mails back and forth.
Pro Cross-platform
Usable on Mac, Windows and Linux.
Pro Sketch and Photoshop support
Contains plugins that allow designers to share any designs with developers.
Cons
Con Is being phased out
Adobe is ditching Fireworks. So those nasty bugs will never get fixed.
Con Subscription fee
After the free trial, users must set up your account with an option of their 3 subscription services - Garage, Business, and Enterprise [$8.99, $12.99, or TBD]. The cost is low, but monthly.
