You can manipulate the properties of animation symbols to make your website come alive. You can change a variety of properties in a symbol, from the animation speed to the opacity and rotation. By manipulating these properties, you can make a symbol appear to rotate, speed up, fade in and out, or any combination of these.

A key property for any animation symbol is number of frames. This property determines how many steps it takes the symbol to complete its animation. When you set the number of frames for a symbol, Fireworks automatically adds the required number of frames to the document to complete the action. If the symbol requires more frames than currently exist in the animation, Fireworks asks if you want to add extra frames.