Is Web Design Part of a Government Experiment?

Is Web Design part of a government experiment to see what it takes to drive a person crazy? I did a simple Flash portfolio for my business website that has some simple go-to-frame interactivity via code snippets. Everything was fine until I looked at it in Firefox. Firefox indicated an ActionScript error, rendering some buttons inoperative. Flash didn't indicate any errors. I tore apart the FLA for a few hours and determined that the error would occur only when buttons would go to a blank keyframe where the instance no longer existed. I determined that no more time should be spent troubleshooting this, so I removed some of the offending interactivity and moved the obnoxious FLA files to another folder. I uploaded the new swf with the reduced interactivity for my site and the next day just for kicks, I re-opened the original offending FLA and publish-previewed it. This time in Firefox there were no errors!!!. So... I reworked this file, gave it some refined interactivity that is better than the original one that gave the ActionScript errors. Now everything is uploaded and dandy, but I'm still scratching my head wondering what happened.

Hi
When you click on New -> web intelligence document -> It should display list of all the available universes -> Select any one among them.
You can choose efashion universe which is a sample universe that comes with BusinessObjects Enterprise installation.
If you are not getting anything in the list of universes, then probably the samples were not installed properly.
You can check if you have any sample universe on the machine or not. Open the drive where you have installed and you get the installed list of sample universes in the below path:
BusinessObjects\Program Files\BusinessObjects\BusinessObjects Enterprise 11\Samples\en\Universes
Hope this helps!!
Regards
Sourashree

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What is your operating system? Can you post a screenshot of that message: https://forums.adobe.com/thread/1070933
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Some of these terms don’t relate strictly to web design, but also to computer graphics and computer programming generally, as I’ve found that such terms are also important to reading and understanding any tutorials or other materials on web design.
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C (programming language) General-purpose computer programming language developed in 1972 by Dennis Ritchie at the Bell Telephone Laboratories for use with the Unix operating system. It was designed for implementing system software and is also widely used for developing portable application software. C has greatly influenced many other popular programming languages, most notably C++, which began as an extension to C.
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Thanks for posting this!
I would only mention that your definition is incomplete for this -
Contextual selector A type of Style Sheet Selector that
and that it's most often referred to now as a Descendent selector, not a contextual selector. It's basically the same as the Compound selector that you have already defined....

Problem Installing Adobe CS 5.5 Web Design Premium, Error Code 6

I just purchased Adobe CS 5.5 Web Design Premium. I've attempted installing it about a half dozen times now, maybe more. I am getting variations of "Error Code 6".
I have been through steps 1-3 of this page: http://helpx.adobe.com/creative-suite/kb/errors-exit-code-6-exit.html but it hasn't helped (the error log is slightly different, but that's about it).
I have attempted to look at the descriptions, but many of the errors in my log summary were not on the list of errors here: http://helpx.adobe.com/x-productkb/global/installation-launch-log-errors-creative.html - however of the ones that were, I found this entry:
DF012 Installation source path does not exist: <path>
The installation files are corrupted.
Reextract or copy the contents of the installer.
Which is discouraging and confusing to me, as I have tried installation both from my new, just opened CDs and by downloading the installation files from here: http://prodesigntools.com/adobe-cs5-5-direct-download-links.html.
I'm not sure what my next step should be to try.
Here's the log information (I deleted a lot of the space between lines (paragraph marks), if that is somehow important, I can paste it here without conserving space):
Exit Code: 6
-------------------------------------- Summary --------------------------------------
- 0 fatal error(s), 4 error(s), 8 warning(s)
----------- Payload: {CFA46C39-C539-4BE9-9364-495003C714AD} Adobe SwitchBoard 2.0 2.0.0.0 -----------
WARNING: DF029: ARKServiceControl::StartService: Service not started/stopped SwitchBoard. Current State: 0 Exit Code: 0 Service Specific Exit Code: 0(Seq 1)
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WARNING: DF035: CreateAlias:Icon file does not exist at C:\Program Files (x86)\Adobe\Adobe Utilities - CS5.5\Pixel Bender Toolkit 2.6\windows\pb_app.icofile:\\\C:\PIXELB~1\source\winwood\Staging 0X1.AE9C02P-1022rea\windows\pb_app.ico42178f80493091e8e552c84a2897e9da68fce32_32_f8049309 1e8e552c84a2897e9da68fce for icon C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\Adobe Web Premium CS5.5\Adobe Pixel Bender Toolkit 2.6.lnk with target C:\Program Files (x86)\Adobe\Adobe Utilities - CS5.5\Pixel Bender Toolkit 2.6\Pixel Bender Toolkit.exe(Seq 89)
----------- Payload: {7202D4A7-F7E6-4e7a-B77D-7B1C4E8B5CA6} Adobe Flash Player 10 ActiveX 10.0.0.0 -----------
ERROR: Error 1722.There is a problem with this Windows Installer package. A program run as part of the setup did not finish as expected. Contact your support personnel or package vendor. Action NewCustomAction1, location: C:\Users\jlp\AppData\Local\Temp\InstallAX.exe, command: -install activex -msi
ERROR: Install MSI payload failed with error: 1603 - Fatal error during installation.
MSI Error message: Error 1722.There is a problem with this Windows Installer package. A program run as part of the setup did not finish as expected. Contact your support personnel or package vendor. Action NewCustomAction1, location: C:\Users\jlp\AppData\Local\Temp\InstallAX.exe, command: -install activex -msi
----------- Payload: {47CE893F-A0FF-4094-AA16-5209AEA7C7E0} Firefox Plugin CS5.1 6.1.0.0 -----------
WARNING: DF012: File/Folder does not exist at E:\Adobe CS5_5\payloads\AdobeContribute6.1-FFPlugin\OEM(Seq 32)
----------- Payload: {208DE3D5-541C-41B0-8595-7A608A6E4306} IE Plugin CS5.1 6.1.0.0 -----------
WARNING: DF012: File/Folder does not exist at E:\Adobe CS5_5\payloads\AdobeContribute6.1-IEPlugin\OEM(Seq 26)
----------- Payload: {4A4F91EA-5951-4C5C-B911-027D802817EB} Office Plugin CS5.1 6.1.0.0 -----------
WARNING: DF012: File/Folder does not exist at E:\Adobe CS5_5\payloads\AdobeContribute6.1-OfficePlugin\OEM(Seq 34)
----------- Payload: {DD309051-FACF-4A5E-87F1-C57154BB3DE8} Adobe Contribute CS5.1 6.1.0.0 -----------
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ERROR: DW050: The following payload errors were found during install:
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Note: references to Drive E are reference to my CD/DVD Drive. I am installing to my C drive and also have a 2nd hard disk D, which shouldn't be involved in the installation.
Also, this is a student edition, but as I've verified myself with Adobe and received my licence key, that shouldn't cause problems as far as I can tell.
My computer is running Windows 7 64-bit. Not sure if there's any other information that is useful in solving this issue.
Thanks for your help!

_Forge_ there a couple different technical documents relevant to the errors you are currently experiencing. I would recommend reviewing Error "1721 [or 1722]: There is a problem with this...package" when installing | CS4 | Windows - http://helpx.adobe.com/creative-suite/kb/error-1721-or-1722-problem.html and Error 1603 | Install | CS5 products - http://helpx.adobe.com/creative-suite/kb/error-1603-install-cs5-products.html.

Recently I purchased CS4 Web Design can I deactivated my old Photo. CS4 and Illust. CS3 to sell/gift

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You may sell or otherwise transfer the individual Photoshop and Illustrator products unless (1) one or the other was used as the basis to do an upgrade to the suite itself or (2) those products were student or academic versions or part of a bulk commercial license.
Make sure you transfer registration of the software using the forms available from Adobe's website.
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That's an odd question.
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When you use a complex web site there are several parts to it
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- the pictures (which can only be changed by the web designer, nobody else)
- the JavaScript, which can do certain things but cannot make permanent changes
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It is the web server which will run software to create programs, allow upload of pictures, remember status etc.
This is written by an experienced web programmer, who must be experienced in all the latest security issues. IT MUST NOT BE DONE BY A BEGINNER OR AMATEUR. I say this with pain because it used to be a great way to learn. But no longer, because the bad guys know all the tricks, and if a beginner does it, in no time at all, you will have porn hosted in your web site, it will be secretly sending spam, and all the personal information will be stolen. If you are in the EU, this last is particularly serious as you have an absolute responsibility to protect personal information, and there are unlimited fines.

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I was following the instructions in the How to Export Data from Visual Composer and I couldn't finish the second part, chapter 3.2 Using Web design API to export to CSV, it deploys but when I try to click on the button to Export to CSV I see the following error message:
Exception in BI runtime
<b>The metadata of "ITE" "CHART_ITEM" are incorrect for parameter "LEGEND_ONLY"
Initial cause
Message:
No message was provided.</b>
And it lists several lines of java.lang.nullpointer exception.
Did some of you had the same problem?
What does this error mean?
Thank you,

Hey,
Sorry. Probably should have explained this in the how to guide. BEx Web must be setup according to OSS Note 917950 and this presentation:
https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/servlet/prt/portal/prtroot/docs/media/uuid/2421b12f-0c01-0010-d385-a0f972a25350
Your particular error is addressed by OSS Note: 924312
Cheers,
Prakash

SiteGrinder (PS plug-in) web design question answered

Over at http://www.adobeforums.com/webx?128@@.59b4e1c9 we've been discussing SiteGrinder, the PS plug-in which converts Photoshop designs to working websites.
One of the posters had concerns about the SG coding. (I don't know if he's used the plug-in.) He pointed out that on their users' sample sites at http://www.medialab.com/sitegrinder , if you enlarge the text with cmd-+, everything gets crowded and overlaps. I noted that this is a common problem with most/all sites, regardless of their origins. He responded:
>It's common -- far too common -- but not inevitable. It's bound to happen with SG, though, because they carve up the layout into fixed size chunks and then use absolute positioning, so there's no way for the containers to accommodate changes in font size except by crashing into each other, or growing scroll bars, which is only sometimes going to work. For the same reason -- starting with a single Photoshop image -- they can't identify headings or lists, so the pages aren't properly accessible to some assistive technology. If you don't care about accessibility, you should realize that this also means that they become hard or impossible for search engines to analyze, so people aren't going to find your site so easily.
I've only just downloaded the SiteGrinder demo, so I couldn't confirm or deny this, so I sent it along to the developer at MediaLab, who replied overnight on a weekend. He says:
>The criticisms are partly true. SiteGrinder uses something called "absolute" positioning as its default. This means that if the text size is increased and the text has been divided into several closely packed layers that after resizing the text may overlap.
>But, while this is the default SiteGrinder positioning behavior, it is not the only option. SiteGrinder supports relative positioning through use of a -grow layer. Content in a grow layer (and the footer below it) won't suffer this problem.
>Also, no website is fully resize resistant to any amount of text size increase. The normal expectation is that a site should accommodate two levels of font size changes in either direction. This can also be accomplished by simply keeping text layers away from each other so they don't crowd one another.
>SiteGrinder does a lot of unseen work for supporting accessibility. It always outputs the content in read order, puts title attributes on graphic buttons, doesn't clutter the HTML with IMG tag graphics ( CSS should be used for design graphics, and that's the SG default - semantically important image layers can be noted as such with the -img hint), properly sets the alt attribute when img tags are used and never puts empty alt="" attributes into the HTML (if you are doing that you should be using CSS for the graphic, not an IMG tag). Also, text -menu layers are nicely converted to UL-LI constructs for you - very important for search engines and accessibility.
>However, SiteGrinder does not yet support header tags, simply because there is no simple way to designate them from Photoshop. However, of all the changes one might want to do downstream, those are by far the easiest. It is our goal for SiteGrinder to one day support header tags in an elegant and seamless way, but I personally don't see their current absence as a big drawback. Why would someone who hand codes HTML be upset if a helper tool didn't put in header tags for them? Hope this helps, Chris
>P.S. SiteGrinder has advanced features for importing HTML, inserting HTML directly into a Photoshop layer, as well as adjusting the HEAD portion of a page. Our more savvy users have no trouble getting header tags into their SiteGrinder builds. And others just put them in downstream.
This is mostly Greek to me (and fortunately SG users don't need to understand most of it, as it happens behind the plug-in scenes) but I'd be interested to hear what other html-savvy folks think.

MediaLab's response is encouraging. It shows that they are aware of the issues and try to do something about it. It suggests though that you won't just be able to go with all the defaults, and you aren't going to understand the options unless you find out something about what's going on behind the scenes, which is really all I've been suggesting you should do. The choice of tools is up to you, if they're capable of doing the job. I will persist in believing that starting from a PSD image is not the right way to go, but I won't argue the point with anyone.
Best of luck starting out in Web design. Watch out for Internet Explorer 6.

Is there an alternative web design program to Adobe Muse that accepts .psd files?

I already frequently use Dreamweaver and Fireworks for web design. I do graphic design in Photoshop and export it to Adobe Muse to make websites. I've also used Word Press and Joomla. I love Muse; however, it forces me to flatten the psd layers first before importing. OR I have to use a tool that allows the files to go in Muse as layers but then they never end up aligning correctly. I'd like to design the web background in Photoshop and do the links elsewhere. I've ever tried to import to Dreamweaver, but it never works right.

Slicing was really designed for web use. Though I suppose it has other uses.
What you can do is move each part of the image to its own layer. Then in File>Scripts is a command to export all layers to files. Or if you have photoshop CC you can name each layer a filename with extension to generate individual images.

CS6 Web & Design full, plus CS6 Master Collection install

I am a freelance pro and educator. I currently own (and have installed) a full CS6 Web & Design Premium pkg. I will be teaching After Effects in the fall (which is NOT part of the Web & Design package). I purchased an educator's version of the CS6 Master Collection recently. I'm not quite sure how to install the new Master Collection, since it's an limited educator's version. Should I keep the full Web & Design collection using the current full license and then install After Effects by itself using the educator's license? Will that cause conflicts? OR should I uninstall the Web & Design and do a full install of the CS6 Master Collection educator's version?
You see, the conflict for me is that I will be doing professional, paid work mainly with Illustrator, Photoshop and Indesign.

You can continue using your Design and Web premium.
And for After Effects, you can just install After Effects out of the Master Collection.
When you will begin installation, you will get options to select what applications you would like to install, there you can choose After Effects and install using Educational license you have.
With this there will be no conflict.

Stupid Web Designer

Hi - this is my first post on this forum and reflects my level of desperation!
I'm a Web Designer and a few weeks back a Client of mind asked if I could produce the artwork for their new brochure as I'd designed their website...I stupidly said yes. Having never designed for print before I made some (incorrect) assumptions that I could simply knock something up in AI and it would be a piece of cake - how wrong I was.
Now, having completed the artwork and submitted it to the Printer, they've returned it with a myriad of issues that I never anticipated, nor had any understanding of. I've managed to solve most of them through sheer perseverance and too many hours Googling however, there is one issue which is driving me mad and I'm hoping/praying somebody on this forum can help.
Basically the front cover of this brochure has a group of six images designed to look like a load of old Polaroid photos - this looks fine in AI and as a PDF yet whenever I add trim marks (as the Printer requires), a number of very fine lines appear around this group of images - you can see them on the image attached. They seem very random to me and when I click on the group in the PDF version, all sorts of random blocks in various shapes and sized appear. I've obviously mucked-up badly but quite how I have no idea.
If anyone reading this message has any inkling on how I can fix this, I would be eternally grateful for a solution. My Client is running out of patience and I'm already into the Red on this project so can't even outsource it.
Thanks in advance.

You info seems on th surface to be thorough but I am not certain that is the case for instance.
What seems to be an issue is how you created the collage of images and in what state the result is in?
That is; is it a embedded image or several embedded images, has an effect been applied to the images?
Regardless i think the art should be composed in photoshop and placed as a flattened image into Illustrator
and that a rectangle with no fill or stroke be placed behind the art in the position of the trimming and use that
no fill no stroke box to apply the trim marks. I would then expand the effect applied to the n fill no stroke rectangle
and not involve the art (image).
I would make certain the image is cmyk when saving from Photoshop at the proper size and resolution of the actual printed piece.
Do not scale images in AI that will not preflight well.
The reason you want it CMYK is otherwise Illustrator will do the conversion since you probably have a cmyk color mode selected for you document.
Also you must make certain that your color settings match the profiles you are using for the document in Photoshop and Illustrator and the image.
You must ask the pprinter for any profile they wish ,you to use load it in the proper directory and then load it onto Illustrator and Photoshop.
Or as they used to do in the old days hire a freelancer to do this all for you, watch them and (this is the hard part) learn and listen to them.
BTW I have mostly print experience but do some web work, I feel for you I often receive material from clients laid out in Word and my client want it to look like the printed page, it is hard for them to understand the difference. I stopped trying to get them to follow some basic rules and just find a way of making it work.
It must be just as difficult going the other way. I thought if I created a template that would be it and they would hire web designers to maintain the site
but each person does it differently and no one followed my directive.
I am just warning you once you get this piece working they will give it at some point to another graphic designer and then somewhere down the road they will return to you and it will be a mess. Even if they do not come back to you they will complain when the other designer screws it up.
What your future holds in store for you.
I however have been blessed another client has hired a web designer to do her site. And one that is savvy enough to use tiff originals to start with and not jpegs. Bless her.

How do I check to see if my reinstalled CS6 Web Design program has been activated?

I installed CS6--from a trial download--on my reformatted laptop. I deactivated the program before reformatting the laptop. I then filled in the serial number from my purchased CS6 Web Design program. The trial version (which lists as CS6 Master Collection) started, but I get screens asking if I want to update my trail version. I can not get help from Adobe Customer Care (800-833-6687) because they do not support Creative Suite. The telephone system referred me to the web system (www.adobe.com/getsupport), which does not allow me connection to Live Chat. It refers me to the community forum. So, guys, how do I check to see if my reinstalled CS6 Web Design program has be activated?

When I click on the link I just gave you, this is what I see:
Your last message was ambiguous about whether you had actually talked to Web Chat.
I've been told that Web Chat is handled from the US time zones so if you're in a different part of the world, you may have to accommodate that.
Serial number issues cannot be handled in a forum because (obviously), you're communicating a serial number which would be broadcast to the entire internet. Also, few Adobe employees are on most of the forums. There are NO Adobe employees on this forum.

What kind of job can I get being a Web Designer/Graphic Designer?

I run BlackReefDesigns.com, and am doing quite a bit of
business consider I don't really advertise too much. I've learned
how to do eCommerce, Flash, etc and things are progressing nicely.
I feel confident in my skills, and I realize that anything I
don't know how to do, I can learn rather quickly. The problem is I
feel I need to become more of a 'business man' if I want my company
to really move forward. I'm only 23 years old so I was thinking of
going and working for a Web/Graphic design firm so I can learn more
about the business aspect of running my own company. Im also
working towards a B.A. in Graphic Design at a larger University in
Southern California...
Just curious, with my skillset, how much money could I, or
should I be making if I went and worked for someone else? Do you
guys know anybody in Southern California that I could work for?
thanks in advance

eh, teachers don't always know what they're talking about. in
fact, i
think a lot of the posts made here are a direct result of
poor teaching.
i know that's how i got a lot of my bad habits (not from a
teacher,
per se, but my first boss who taught me some basics) a lot of
people
think they know the dos and don'ts but really don't (plus,
they tend to
change). i thought i knew a lot of stuff until i started
coming here and
learned that a lot of what i thought was the right way to do
things
actually wasn't.
come here often. and listen to what these people say because
they know
their stuff (you'll quickly figure out who the ones are that
know what
they're talking about). i can't tell you how much i've
learned in the
relatively short time i've been a part of this forum. and i'm
still
learning!
teach yourself html. you don't have to be able to write an
entire site
by hand, but at least be able to look at the code and
understand what it
means. like others said, you seem to have a good grasp of
graphic
design, but websites have to be more than graphics.
to answer your money question, it really kind of depends on
the market
where you live. you might just want to look in the want ads
and see what
kind of salaries are being offered for this type of work in
your town.
there's also resources on the web where you can see average
salaries for
various jobs in different places. yahoo has one
http://hotjobs.yahoo.com/salary)
but there are lots of others if you
search for something like "compare my salary."
good luck! you seem willing to learn, which is great!
JSloanSDRE wrote:
> JoeyD -
>
> I really appreciate your input. I wish more people would
be critical of my
> work. I can't ever progress when people say 'good job,
looks great'.
>
> I've learned everything myself when it comes to web
design, and it sucks
> because I wish I could have had a teacher to teach me
the do's and don'ts as I
> think I would have progressed much farther over the last
couple of years.
>
> I have been busy working on client work and haven't
updated my personal
> website in awhile (which I realize is a big no-no if I
want future business)
> but there is really no excuse for the padding issue. I
actually just fixed it
> right now.
>
> Again, thanks for the input, and I realize I have a
loooong way to go in Web
> Design, and that is why I want to get a job somewhere so
I can learn and work
> at the same time. I think however I am proficient in
Graphic Design and am
> curious as to how much income I would have working for a
firm as oppose to
> freelancing (just in Graphic Designs)
>
> thanks again JoeyD, and any future advice would be great
>

New to web design - learn Dreamweaver first?

Greetings to the Dreamweaver community.
After 30 years in print design, I've finally made a decision to learn a little something about web design. With that goal in mind, when I updgraded to CS6, I bought the "CS6 Design and Web Premium" package. The package includes Dreamweaver, Fireworks and Flash Pro. But I'm a little confused where to start.
I always buy the Adobe "Classroom in a Book" series to learn the basics or new aspects of Adobe products. All three apps have CIB counterparts and I'm thinking that I will but the Dreamweaver CIB first, then Fireworks, and then Flash Pro?
So what am asking is... is this the right direction? I notice on some discussion boards that some use Fireworks more than Dreamweaver: I just want to make sure I'm on the right path.
Any suggestions would be appreciated.
Clinton

Welcome to the DW community, Clinton!
30 years - that is some real experience you've got up your sleeve!
Web Design, okay, it works this way. It has 2 parts - for starters:
Design/ Mockup/ Layout/ Wireframe/ UI (different people refer to this differently) - but the end goal is the same - to create the 'design', per se, that your site is going to look like
Development/ Slicing/ Compositing/ CSSing/ PSD - CSS (again, different references) - making the 'design' you've made in an application like Photoshop or Fireworks to be 'web-friendly' - in other words, making it .html and .css files that are the 'core' elements for a website
Most web designers (including me) use Photoshop to create design cuts (PSD files) that we send back and forth a million times to the client to get them approved. Then, 'slice' some key elements such as backgrounds, boxes, etc... Then open Dreamweaver, write the 'markup' - which is 'what' you want to display on your website (content, tables, boxes, widgets, snippets, etc..). Then, 'style' the website using 'CSS' - to match it to the 'PSD' that the client had approved.
This is it - I don't know if I could've put it any shorter!
CSS - Cascading Style Sheet - it is a piece of code that instructs web browsers how your website has to be displayed. Height, spacing, margins, width, colors, display-type, etc... With the birth of CSS-3, things are even more easier. A few key things that CSS-3 can do are lets say, Gradients, rounded-edges, etc.. (for which you had to use an actual .png or .jpg image in CSS-2). Now, CSS-3 can give you the exact same effect with no use of an image.
HTML - Now that HTML5 is quickly replacing older web standards, you've decided to start your 'web journey' at the right time, I'd say. HTML5 has endless possibilites for creating 'responsive' web design - responsive meaning one design, multi-devices - for desktops, tablets & mobile phones.
With all that said, Dreamweaver CS6 has some great tools for HTML5 standards such as 'Fluid Grid Layout' - with which you create 1 design, code 3 different CSS documents and BAM - your website will be optimized for all 3 devices.
Fireworks - Definitely usable for web design. Fireworks CS6 also has some great tools such as 'CSS Generator' that gives you the CSS code for a selected design element - in other words, design it in Fireworks, hover over it, Fireworks will generate the CSS code for you.
jQuery - You should look this up - has some great 'plugins' that you can use in your website design/ development. Now that 'Flash' is kind of dead (modern handhelds don't support Flash), jQuery is your friend. Best part is it is fully open-source.
The next step - Dynamic websites - As the name suggests, you can get into building more 'interactive' websites - like a shopping cart, etc... later on once you get a proper hang of some basic HTML & CSS. And if you decide to use jQuery, you'll also get a hang of JavaScripting - which is critical to build interactive websites as you progress.
You can take a look at this video on Youtube. I know it doesn't have too many views. But, I personally feel it is a good place for you begin with Fireworks - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NrJmyYfNu1M
All this maybe going a little over your head right now - since you're just starting up. But, feel free to post questions as and when you have one and we'll be happy to help you! The world needs more web designers/ developers after all!
All the best.
-ST

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