Please note we are no longer offering public courses in Dreamweaver MX2004, only in
Dreamweaver 8
We
offer 2 Macromedia Authorized Dreamweaver
MX 2004 Training
Courses:
Macromedia
Dreamweaver MX 2004: Website Development -
course outline
Private course only
This is a 3 day introductory training
course to Dreamweaver MX 2004. Ideal for beginners or people
with little experience in Dreamweaver
Dreamweaver
MX 2004: Dynamic Application Development -
course outline
3 Day Course - $1,195 Schedule
and Locations
This is a 3 day training course which
teaches an experienced Dreamweaver developer how to connect to
a database creating dynamic web pages with ASP, ColdFusion and
PHP.
We also offer custom Dreamweaver training
classes and consulting which can be tailored and targeted specifically
to you and your staff. These courses can be held at either of our
training centres or on-site at your location anywhere in the United
States. Our Dreamweaver training and support team are all Macromedia
Certified. Please contact training@americanmediatraining.com if
you would like more information on our Dreamweaver custom or on-site
classes.
We currently offer public Dreamweaver
training classes in many cities around the country.
Click here to see a list of locations available.
You can register
for these classes by clicking on the schedule link at the top of
this page.
COURSE OUTLINES
Macromedia
Dreamweaver MX 2004: Website Development
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Description
Macromedia Dreamweaver
MX 2004: Website Development is a 3-day course that provides
web designers with the knowledge and hands-on practice they need
to build and manage professional websites using Dreamweaver MX
2004.
Audience
This course is for people
new to web design and development and want to use Dreamweaver
MX 2004 to build intuitive, attractive and accessible websites.
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Course
Outline
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Unit 1: Introducing
Macromedia Dreamweaver MX 2004: Website Development
- About the course
- Course objectives
- Course prerequisites
- Static page architecture
Unit 2: Getting
Started
- Introduction
to Dreamweaver MX 2004
- Creating a local
site
- Creating a new
HTML page
- Using development
views
- Previewing pages
- Setting document
properties
Unit 3: Adding
Content to a Site
- Adding content
- Importing text
files
- Importing Microsoft
Word and Excel content
- Controlling document
structure
- Creating headings,
paragraphs and lists
- Adding special
characters
Unit 4: Formatting
Text
- Formatting text
on the web
- Changing the
font properties
- Introducing Cascading
Style Sheets
- Fonts and class
styles
- Creating styles
- Creating tag
selectors
- Creating advanced
styles
- Exporting CSS
style definitions
- Attaching external
style sheets
- Creating a new
style sheet
Unit 5: Working
with Graphics
- Graphics on web
pages
- Placing graphics
on the page
- Accessibility
setting
- Modifying image
properties
- Image editing
in Dreamweaver
- Roundtrip editing
with Fireworks
- Optimizing an
image
- Adding Flash
movies
Unit 6: Navigating
Your Site
- Hypertext links
- Linking to files
in your site
- Linking to sites
- Linking to named
anchors
- Adding e-mail
links
- Linking from
images
- Linking from
an image map
- Creating a navigation
bar
- Creating a jump
menu
Unit 7: Designing
Page Layout
- Understanding
page layout
- Structuring page
layout with tables
- Importing tabular
data
- Using table layout
view
- Using layers
for layout
- Adding the Show-Hide
layers behavior
- Converting tables
to layers
- Converting layers
to tables
Unit 8: Using Libraries
and Templates
- Creating library
items
- Placing library
items on a page
- Creating site
templates
- Applying a template
to an existing page
Unit 9: Creating
Forms
- Creating a form
- Form processing
- Setting focus
in a form
Unit 10: Testing,
Maintenance, and Uploading
- Checking accessibility,
links and browser compatibility
- Maintaining files
- Using the Integrated
File Browser
- Connecting to
a remote site
- Cloaking folders
and files
- Uploading files
- Synchronizing
files
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Macromedia Dreamweaver MX 2004: Dynamic Applications
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Description
Macromedia Dreamweaver MX 2004: Dynamic Application
Development provides students with no prior Dreamweaver experience
the knowledge and hands-on practice they need to build a web application
with Dreamweaver. This course focuses on teaching the fundamentals
of the Dreamweaver interface, web programming languages, and databases
to build a dynamic, data-driven application in ColdFusion, ASP,
or PHP.
Audience
This course is for people new to Dreamweaver
(or who have used it only to build static web sites) that want
to use it to create data-driven web applications.
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Course Outline
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Unit 1: Introducing Dreamweaver MX 2004
and Newland Tours
- Defining a static site
- Creating the "Contact an Agent" page
- Creating a new page based on an existing
page
- Working in design view, code view,
and split view
- Inserting and formatting text
- Inserting images from the Insert bar
- Creating tables
- The Property inspector, the Properties
panel (of the Selection panel group)
Unit 2: Dynamic Web Sites
- Dynamic web site basics
- Choosing a server model
- Redefining the Newland Tours site for
dynamic development
- Developing with a local server
- Developing with a remote server
- Building a simple, dynamic application
Unit 3: Passing Data Between Pages
- Understanding the HTTP protocol
- Retrieving data with query strings/URL
variables
- Retrieving data with hyperlinks
- Setting and retrieving cookies
Unit 4: Sending E-mail From a Web Form
- Introducing SMTP e-mail service
- Configuring your system to send SMTP
e-mail
- Writing the code to send a message
- Introducing objects, methods/functions,
and properties
- Creating the web form
- E-mailing dynamic form values
- Client-side form validation
Unit 5: Building a Tour Price Calculator
- Creating the pages
- Building the form
- Collecting, processing, and displaying
the data
- Adding server-side form validation
- Creating the conditional region
- Creating and applying a custom CSS
class
Unit 6: Databases on the Web
- A crash course on databases
- Touring the Newland database
- Connecting the site to a database
- Creating recordsets and displaying
database information
Unit 7: Completing the Price Calculator
- Dynamically populated drop-down menus
- Creating filtered recordsets
- Revising the calculation script with
live data
- Documenting your code with comments
Unit 8: Filtering and Displaying Data
- Preparing the input page
- Generating URLs dynamically
- Preparing the output page
- Populating page layouts dynamically
- Adding dynamic images and formatting
the population number
- Looking up foreign table data with
SQL
Unit 9: Building the Tour Descriptions
- Planning the application
- Creating recordsets with joins
- Building the descriptions
- Inserting images and alt attributes
- Implementing recordset paging
- Passing data to other applications
Unit 10: Building Search Interfaces
- Preparing the search page and creating
the Search All link
- Searching by region: building the interfaces
- Commenting code for testing and debugging
- Suppressing the navigation bar conditionally
- Searching by country: filtering by
form variable
- Switching SQL statements according
to environmental variables
Unit 11: Authenticating Users
- User authentication as a web application
- Building the registration pages
- Building the log-in page
- Creating an Application.cfm (CF only)
- Enabling sessions in PHP
- Restricting access to pages
Unit 12: Managing Content with Forms
- Creating the admin section
- Two approaches to formatting content
stored in a database
- Creating the form interface
- Using session variables and hidden
fields to track users
- Inserting the record
Unit 13: Building Update Pages
- Preparing the pages
- Planning master-detail pages
- Making the detail page updateable
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Dreamweaver MX 2004: Public Open enrollment
Authorized Training courses available in :
|
| Atlanta |
| Boston |
| Chicago |
| Denver |
| Los Angeles |
| Miami |
| New York |
| Philadelphia |
| San Diego |
| Tempe |
To register for a class, click schedule at
the top of this page and select your city and course.
We offer Dreamweaver training all over
the United States. Wherever you are located if we don't have a
public course scheduled, we offer private on-site training in the
following locations:
American
Media Training
