Dreamweaver CS3: Level 1 (1 day)

Course Overview

This course will introduce you to Adobe Dreamweaver CS3.

Audience

This course is designed for web designers or prospective web designers with any level of experience who want to use Dreamweaver's features to create web sites efficiently.

Skills Gained

After completing this course, students will be able to create Web sites that include simple rollovers, navigation bars and other page elements that provide visual feedback. Students will learn techniques for creating Web sites efficiently.

Course Outline

• Getting Started
• Introducing Dreamweaver CS3
• Learning the interface
• Design vs Code View
• Customising Environment
• Defining a local site
• Creating a website

• Adding Content to a Site
• Adding content
• Making lists
• Adding horizontal rules
• Adding special characters

• Formatting
• Formatting text
• Introducing cascading style sheets
• Creating styles
• Creating internal styles with the Property inspector

• Tables
• Creating Tables
• Formatting tables
• Merging Cells

• Working with Graphics
• Using graphics on web pages
• Placing graphics on the page
• Modifying image properties
• Optimising Images
• Image Types
• Creating Rollovers

• Navigating & Site Structure
• Understanding site navigation
• Understanding Static Page Structure
• Controlling document structure
• Linking to files in your site
• Linking to sites
• Linking to named anchors
• Adding e-mail links
• Linking from images
• Creating a jump menu

• Creating Forms
• Understanding forms
• Formatting form display
• Processing a form
• Setting focus in a form
• Validating a form

• Working with Graphics Pt 2
• Editing images
• Doing roundtrip editing with Fireworks
• Customising the Insert bar
• Adding Flash content
• Adding Flash Video

• Testing, Maintaining, and Uploading
• Testing your site
• Maintaining your files and folders
• Connecting to a remote site
• Managing Sites
• Synchronising files