GoLive CS2 Introduction (HTML) (2 day)

Adobe GoLive allows designers to create websites with full creative control and flexibility. GoLive also includes a powerful range of features enabling project and content management once your site is up and running.

This comprehensive two day course is designed to get you using GoLive's range of features quickly and easily. You will cover planning and building a new website, adapting legacy websites, creating on-line forms and tables, working with frames, integrating interactivity, site management issues and working with actions and tools to help you unlock the power of CSS. GoLive also supports data binding and this course will provide an overview of GoLive's powerful dynamic publishing features.

The following outline highlights what is covered on each of the two days. Feel free to tailor the course content to your own requirements if you wish.

Course Overview

DAY ONE

INTRODUCTION

• GoLive and HTML/XHTML
• Planning your site
• GoLive Objects
• GoLive Inspector
• Converting existing graphics for use on the web
• Using Adobe Bridge

BASIC FEATURES

• Editing and formatting text
• Adding links
• Working with anchors
• Adding background colours
• Adding images
• Using the Refresh function
• Setting up Browser Preview

BUILDING CSS BASED PAGES

• Building pages that conform to open standards
• Tools to aid writing code direct

CREATIVE CONTROLS

• Working in layout mode
• Using the Inspector window
• Working in text mode
• Importing from other websites
• Integrating elements produced in other software applications

WORKING WITH TABLES

• Using the table icon
• Defining your table
• Using Pixel and Relative sizes
• Creating full-width pages
• Placing text and images
• Creating grids

WORKING WITH SMART OBJECTS

• Importing Photoshop images
• Creating rollovers in Photoshop
• Editing Smart Objects
• Converting Smart Objects to tables
• Using the Smart Objects folder

CASCADING STYLE SHEETS

• The Style Sheet toolbar
• Creating standards compliant CSS content
• The Text Inspector
• Using internal and external CSS
• Element Tag Styles
• Class styles
• CSS precedence

QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS

DAY TWO

FRAMES IN GOLIVE

• Issues with frames
• Using frames for efficiency
• Targeting frames
• Assigning frame attributes
• Switch for non-frames viewing
• Absolute and relative frame sizing

CREATING FORMS

• Designing a form
• Applying form elements
• Assigning form methods
• Principles of form submission

WORKING WITH ACTIONS

• Opening alert windows
• Setting image URLs
• Controlling sounds

CYBEROBJECTS

• Browser switching
• URL pop-up menus
• Creating rollovers
• Adding a date and/or timestamp

GOLIVE AND DYNAMIC HTML

• Creating mouse rollovers
• DHTML layers - floating boxes
• Working with floating boxes
• Adding multimedia actions to floating boxes

WORKING WITH HEADER TAGS

• Formatting the keyword and content meta tags
• Explaining search engine principles

ORGANISING YOUR SITE

• Creating a site plan
• Plotting a navigation path
• Creating and testing links
• Displaying your site's structure

INTRODUCING MULTIMEDIA

• Ready to use JavaScript actions
• Embedding movies
• Multimedia issues

DYNAMIC WEBSITE DEVELOPMENT

• Overview of GoLive's Dynamic capabilities

SITE MANAGEMENT

• Displaying the site structure
• Editing the hierarchy

QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS

GoLive CS2 Introduction (HTML) (2 day) / AGLCS2-2