I have messed around with creating a new animation like the one I am replacing, but seems too much work. I am also experimenting with CSS/HTML buttons only, with a rollover, which is nice, but does not look as good as the actual buttons created in Fireworks.
So, these are my steps from creation to implementation.
- open fireworks
- create a new canvass(I choose 170 * 30 pixels) - not too big
- using the image draw tool, draw a rounded rectangle in the canvass
- trim the canvass, right click for shortcut
- activate the Styles window
- choose a style (included color, effect etc)
- choose the text icon, click on the button, add a title to the button
- activate the frame window
- add a frame, duplicate the first frame
- select the second frame
- change the color of the text in the button title, that is a subtle rollover change
- click back on frame 1
- select the slice tool
- select the image
- right click the slice over the image
- choose Add simple roll over behavior
- save the image as buttonname.jpg
- Once the image(s) are done, you must export them, along with the supporitng javascript that actually switches the images, into an html document.
- Open the html document and copy / paste the code into a php page if necessary. Maybe you can leave the html in the page and use the html page itself in your design. I already had a php page that was doing this work, so I copied and pasted the html and javascript created by Fireworks into the php page.
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