COURSE OUTLINE
Description
Adobe Dreamweaver: Website Development provides web designers with the knowledge
and hands-on practice they need to build and manage professional websites using Dreamweaver CS4.
Audience
This course is for people new to web design and development and want to use Dreamweaver CS4 to
build intuitive, attractive and accessible websites.
COURSE OUTLINE
Lesson 1: An overview of web standards
HTML, XML, CSS - what's the difference?
Structuring a web page from the inside out.
How to view any page's source code
Viewing pages with and without scripting and images
Styling with CSS vs. older standards.
Lesson 2: The Dreamweaver user interface
The welcome screen
Arranging toolbars & palettes
Saving workspaces
Personalizing preferences
Design view & code view
The property inspector
The reference palette
The tag selector
Lesson 3 - Defining & managing a complete web site
Using the site wizard & site management window
Creating & applying CSS styles
CSS device rendering - web, print, smartphones and more
Lesson 4- Working with text
Importing text & entering text in the design view
Editing text, spellchecking, find & replace
Using advanced boolean strings & expressions with find & replace
Creating HTML tables
Importing tabular data
Lesson 5 - Working with graphics
Graphics file standards- when to use JPEG, GIF, PNG
Saving files: quality vs. size
Working with layered photoshop files
Working with fireworks files & rollover buttons
Inserting & scaling graphics, applying text wrapping
Quickly editing graphics directly in Dreamweaver
Lesson 6 - Working with links
Structuring a web site & navigating with links
Site-relative vs. absolute links
Creating & targeting anchors
Other kinds of links - email, AIM and iTunes
Creating a navigation menu with forms
Lesson 7 - Page structure
Structuring a page with HTML tables
Structuring a page with DIV tags
Frames & framesets
Using Dreamweaver's included templates
Creating your own templates
Lesson 8 - Interactivity & scripting
Applying advanced JavaScript easily with behaviors
Lesson 9 - More interactivity with AJAX
Just what is "web 2.0" anyway?
Employing AJAX scripting with Adobe SPRY widgets
Lesson 10 - Forms
Creating & editing HTML forms
Using SPRY to enhance feedback forms
Lesson 11 - Multimedia
Encoding video for quality & efficiency
QuickTime, Flash SWF files & Flash video
Serving video: progressive download vs. streaming vs. letting YouTube do it
Customizing the flash video player
Lesson 12 - Launching your site
Using a test server to pre-launch
Uploading, maintaining & synchronizing a site
Controlling access with check-in and cloaking
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