I use macromedia's fireworks in desinging some of my site coz its very easy to create one there
currenltly im practicing photshop coz my friends told me that photoshop is more versatile than fireworks
I use flash.I enjoy using flash because it is very cool.I use also fireworks in creating my vector graphics that I will put on my flash oriented site.Use also Illustrator.
i use the macromedia products along with photoshop. i want to get more into fireworks as its nicely tied together with dreamweaver and works better for vector graphics. photoshop and fireworks are really 2 different types of programs. fireworks wasn't designed to directly compete with photoshop but designed with a website designer in mind while photoshop is more for editing photos. i do use photoshop for all of my web design but fireworks i hear is much easier for newbies to understand and as i said is tied nicely into dreamweaver. need to edit an image? then click edit and fireworks automatically loads...make your changes then hit DONE and the changes are then exported out of fireworks and back into dreamweaver...pretty slick.
i use photoshop to make my layout and then i usually use a combination of dreamweaver/notepad to actually code it. i also OCCASIONALLY use flash in my sites, but im not a big fan of it.