Design a compact calendar in Fireworks

This article first appeared in the April issue (226) of .net magazine – the world's best-selling magazine for web designers and developers.

These days there are a large number of tools to choose from when it comes to designing. Adobe Fireworks is an easy-to-work-with and extremely efficient piece of software that can be used to make all sorts of goodies – from the simplest of things, such as wireframes, all the way through to more detailed imagery for a website.

I first started out designing in Photoshop before converting to Fireworks, because I’d heard some good things about it and wanted to try something new. Since then I’ve grown to prefer using Fireworks to Photoshop.

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