Years ago, web designers have used HTML because CSS has not become popular and the JavaScript was not very extensively employed. On the other hand the browser was the main platform for the web designers because this was what they had got used to. The transition to employing the Photoshop for web designing has been steady. This change has been contributed by the reading of the blogs on web design and the interaction with other people in web design.
Slowly the utility of the Photoshop started becoming popular through different tutorials. Most of the web designers have felt that once they know the basics of a tool it becomes very easy to develop expertise at it and use it maximum for web site design. None the less there are web designer who still take the support of the in-browser web designing techniques. Adobe Photoshop is the most common tool for graphics creation and manipulation along with Illustrator for freehand drawings. Adobe Fireworks is a commercial vector and raster graphics editor hybrid from Adobe which can be constituted for the Mac and Windows operating systems.
Fireworks doesn't get as much of the adorableness like photoshop, but this doesn't exactly mean that the software is also useless. In fact Fireworks can be employed hand-in-hand with Photoshop to create seamless mockup designs, wireframes, interface icons and so much more. Designed specifically for web designers, Fireworks brings you a plethora of tools and options that make full web layout prototyping a breeze. Notable features of Adobe fireworks are, slices' for slicing and cubing a design mockup into HTML/CSS for rapidly creating prototypes, the ability to package an entire site design as a PDF with clickable components for interactive and impressive site prototypes, and optimization tools for making your web graphics as lightweight as possible.
The decision of opting for in-browser web designing or Photoshop or Fireworks web designing should be based on thorough study including the pros and the cons. The website should be accessible by the visitors of the internet. So the choice should be based on the designer's thoughtful and critical approach.
Today there are many other web designing tools are available in the market. It does not matter which web design technique is good or which one is bad. Choose the one that you are comfortable and which serves your purpose.