Dreamweaver: Website Development
3 Day Course - Schedule and Locations

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.

Unit 1: Introducing the Course

• Understanding the course format
• Reviewing the course objectives and prerequisites
• Reviewing the course format
• Outlining at the course content
• Understanding static page architecture

Unit 2:  Getting Started

• Introducing Dreamweaver CS4
• Learning the interface
• Defining a local site
• Creating a website

Unit 3:  Adding Content to a Site       

• Adding content
• Controlling document structure
• Making lists
• Adding horizontal rules
• Adding special characters

Unit 4: Formatting with Cascading Style Sheets

• Formatting text
• Introducing cascading style sheets        
• Creating styles
• Exporting CSS rule definitions
• Creating class styles
• Attaching external style sheets
• Creating advanced styles
• Creating a new external style sheet
• Displaying styles
• Understanding cascading order and inheritance of styles
• Creating internal styles with the Property inspector

Unit 5: Working with Graphics

• Using graphics on web pages
• Placing graphics on the page
• Modifying image properties
• Editing images
• Doing roundtrip editing with Fireworks
• Customizing the Insert bar
• Adding Flash content
• Adding Flash Video

Unit 6: Navigating Your Site

• Understanding site navigation
• Linking to files in your site
• Linking to sites
• Linking to named anchors
• Adding e-mail links
• Linking from images
• Creating a jump menu

Unit 7:  Designing Page Layouts with CSS

• Understanding page layout
• Using layers for layout
• Adding CSS to layers
• Using absolute and relative positioning
• Designing with DIVs
• Designing navigation links with CSS
• Importing tabular data
• Using table layout view

Unit 8:  Using Libraries and Templates

• Using site library items
• Creating site templates
• Defining editable regions
• Using templates
• Applying a template to an existing page
• Modifying templates

Unit 9: Creating Forms

• Understanding forms
• Processing a form
• Setting focus in a form
• Validating a form

Unit 10: Testing, Maintaining, and Uploading

• Testing your site
• Maintaining your files and folders
• Connecting to a remote site
• Synchronizing files

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