oblige to use layers when designing with Fireworks ?

finish your page in whatever you start it in.
fireworks or dreamweaver, not both

The way I see it is you have two options, make it work with tables or use flash

Best advice = make it work with tables, flash is becoming the next 'animated gif, blinking text, marquee ..' of the net.

layers arent supported by all browsers equally, even the main two (IE and NS) use different tags - hide, hidden, show, visible.

there is no way to get it to work on all browsers, all versions so your cutting a chunk of your market off unless you make at least 3 or 4 versions - IE, NS, Mac, others.

when previewing it, what you see in IE 5 is pretty much what you'll get in NS 6, but NS4.7 is a totally different story.

Good Luck

I disagree about Flash - it can be a very good tool when used well and for the right reasons.

Anyway, it sounds like you don't really know too much about HTML. I would suggest that if this the case that yo go out and and learn it. The HTML generation tools in Fireworks etc. and even Dreamweaver can be a problem if you don't know what the HTML behind it is doing.

I'm not exactly sure what you're talking about here (if you could give us a URL or a screenshot that would probably be helpful). What people do most of the time is create .gif graphics that look like several differnet elements layered on top of one anotehr when they're really not.

Tables do tend to be easier to work with - at least they are when you know the HTML. Layers can be a little bit unpredictable sometimes.

what do ya mean work with dreamweaver or fireworks .Both works together. I'm obliged to import the webdesign from te fireworks to dreameaver. In fireworks, i can't put the contents (text,.....), because it will all be saved as graphics. About layers and tables, my question was "i'm i oblige to use layers when designing a website with fireworks then importing it in dreamweaver" , not "is layers easier and better to use than layers" ,
overwise, thanx for your reply!,
Brian

Okay, I think I'm understanding you a little better.

No, you're not obliged to work with layers, in fact, it's probably better to stick with the tables it generates. THe thing is that Fireworks doesn't know what you want to be a graphic and what you want to make into plain text, so it just makes everything into graphics. You just have to slice it up so that any areas that will contain text are separated from the areas that will be graphics. Then once you get into Dreamweaver you can delete the blank graphics where your text will be.