The Fireworks User Community

Nice post from Kim Cavanaugh on his Brain Frieze blog today where he’s giv­ing props to the Fireworks user com­mu­nity that has been work­ing with Macromedia and now Adobe for years to improve Fireworks which resulted in the awe­some new CS3 ver­sion. Like Kim, I have been a mem­ber of Fireworks’ Advisory Group for sev­eral years and I have been one of the most vocals to push for needed change. The new ver­sion is truly amaz­ing but there is still a lot of work to do to get Fireworks to achieve its true poten­tial and ful­fill its early promise.

I want to join Kim in thank­ing Adobe for main­tain­ing a close rela­tion­ship with its core group of Fireworks fanat­ics… err… advi­sors… It makes it worth the count­less hours spent log­ging bugs and Enhancement Requests as well as writ­ing long and detailed mes­sage describ­ing desired new func­tion­al­ity. The job of a beta tester is often a thank­less one but Macromedia and Adobe really give us the oppor­tu­nity to make a real dif­fer­ence. They realy lis­ten and take our requests to heart. This is becom­ing a rare thing in the soft­ware indus­try and I really appre­ci­ate the oppor­tu­nity they give me to participate.

I’ll post later about my spe­cific thoughts regard­ing the new release. It really is a fan­tas­tic release and is well worth the upgrade price if you are an exist­ing user and is also worth try­ing for the first time if you are not. Fireworks can help you get your cre­ative juices flow­ing and design eas­ier and faster than you ever thought pos­si­ble. Good job Adobe!