What are best uses for Fireworks?

I've been working with dreamweaver, flash and photoshop for years, but have avoided Fireworks because I could make a nav bar some other way, in flash or just use mouse-overs in Dreamweaver. Now I bought the CS5.5 upgrade and it includes Fireworks which now I am totally unfamiliar with. Could you tell me what I can use Fireworks for to help my small home-based website building business?
Thank You,
Ken

Fireworks' workflow is better suited to Web development, than Photoshop or Illustrator. That's what it was designed for.
For example, I will make different layers for different content areas. I might have a layers for the background, the header, the footer, and any placeholding content text I want to include just to see how it would look. Layers in Fireworks allow you to organize the content of a Fireworks document in ways that I don't think you can do as easily in Photoshop. This makes it easy to concentrate on one area while having the other areas locked or hidden.
Also, with FW, you have a hybrid bitmap and vector graphics program. It can do some of what both Photoshop and Illustrator can do, so you spend less time moving between applications. It's easy to manipulate and composite bitmaps and vectors in FW. (Naturally, you should use the tool that is best suited for a particular task: complex photo editing should be done in Photoshop and complex illustrations created in Illustrator.)
Like LInda, I will mock up my designs in FW. I slice and export my images, then build page templates in DW based on the mockup.

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