Creative Suite 3 (CS3) Web Boot Camp

Course Overview

This course is for people new to web design and development that want to use the CS3 Web bundle to build intuitive, attractive and accessible websites. You've bought CS3 Web so why only learn a small piece of it, by attending the CS3 Web Bootcamp you can learn both DreamWeaver CS3 and Flash CS3 all in one go.

Audience

This course is for people new to web design and development and want to use CS3's website development tools to build intuitive, attractive and accessible websites.

Prerequisites

You should already be familiar with the Windows or Mac operating system and have good all round computer skills.

Course Outline

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

Getting Started

• Introducing Dreamweaver CS3
• Learning the interface
• Defining a local site
• Creating a website

Adding Content to a Site

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

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

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

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

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

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

Creating Forms

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

Testing, Maintaining, and Uploading

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

Introducing the Flash Section

• Understanding the course format
• Reviewing the course objectives and prerequisites
• Looking at the course outline

Working in Flash

• Setting Stage dimensions
• Working with panels and panel layouts
• Setting preferences
• Identifying the development cycle
• Publishing a file

Creating and Importing Graphic Assets

• Working with different graphic formats
• Importing bitmap graphics
• Importing vector graphics
• Working with layers and layer folders
• Using the drawing tools
• Using object and merge drawing
• Working with the Color panels
• Creating and using Graphic symbols
• Using the Library panel

Using Text Effectively

• Using the Text tool
• Adding and formatting static text
• Changing font rendering methods
• Adding input text fields
• Embedding fonts in input text fields
• Using font best practices

Creating Animations

• Working with the Timeline
• Using keyframes, blank keyframes, and frames
• Creating motion tweens
• Creating shape tweens
• Creating transition effects
• Using animation best practices

Adding ActionScript with Script Assist and Behaviours

• Using Script Assist
• Adding actions to a frame
• Creating and using Button symbols
• Adding behaviors to a button
• Loading external SWFs

Using Moving Clips

• Creating and using Movie Clip symbols
• Organising a Movie Clip Timeline
• Using actions to control a Timeline
• Using frame labels
• Responding to user interactions

Adding Sound and Video

• Importing sound
• Changing sound properties
• Adding sound to a Timeline
• Embedding video in a Timeline
• Using the FLVPlayback component

Publishing Flash Documents

• Using different publishing formats
• Using publishing profiles
• Adding Flash Player detection
• Publishing for deployment