Rapid prototyping in Fireworks

Well its an expensive toy but pretty cool I must say.
I've never used Fireworks before but have used Photoshop some. I was trying to understand a wireframe flow for a new microsite and decided the best way to validate would be to create an image with screen flow on it to review with the designers. Then I thought why not a working prototype? I have a trial Adobe Fireworks so I decided to try it.
Well as my kids program "yo-gabba-gabba" likes to say: I tried it and I like it.

Approach:
- I took screenshots of each of the Wireframes, pasted each on as a separate page into Fireworks
- add hotspot links from buttons to pages.
- save, File->export
- go to file system and open the first page into browser, click on links, it works! Pretty dang cool!

Here's the tutorial I followed


More usefil info
- to add a new page, click Edit->Insert->Page
- to add a hotspot link, click the toolbar hotspot link, then draw a box around the button, then on the bottom part of the screen you should see a Properties tab. In the field Link, choose the page to link to. That's all.
    all pages you've created should be in the Link drop down.
- File->Export, as the tutorial said chosoe "All Pages", I also choose Generic HTML from "Options..."
- when Exporting I noticed sometimes it did not export properly so I just deleted the previous target files and images. Then it exported ok.


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