Help with using frames for animation

Question

I am using frames to animate webpage using fireworks 4 (I
know, hopelessly outdated). I seem to have two different
collections of frames that interact- one for the main image, and
one for the slice I'm trying to animate as a GIF. I can't seem to
change the time delay for each frame when I'm editing the slice.
What can I do to make this work?

Answer 1

Yep you have answered your own question.
Choose export, file export and click the scale images option, and original options (assuming they are already jpegs).
(As you say exporting as webpage creates the page for you but can create images in two sizes (thumnails and main) which can be helpful. The downside the that the filenames for the images as numeric. 1.jpg, 2.jpg etc.)
While a longer process and with no direct control over file size and quality I prefer the file export option as above. It preserves filenames and quality is fine.
and do choose 'original' as you should avoid re-saving a jpeg as a jpeg (that causes a quality reduction)
You will need to manually bring the images into your web pages (save the exported images into your site folder and bring each one into your page individually) unless you are very clever with filenaming!
Hope this helps.
M.