Dreamweaver CS3: Level 2 (2 day)

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Course Overview

This course will advance your skills in Adobe Dreamweaver CS3.

Audience

This course is designed for experienced web designers or students who have attaneded the Level 1 course.

Skills Gained

After completing this course, students will be able to use the advanced features of Adobe Dreamweaver, including SPRY and Cascasding Style Sheers, to create engaging web sites in an effiecient manner. Every effort will be made to complete the agenda within the given time scale, but it should be noted that the course is designed to run at your pace and topics will not be rushed in order to complete the agenda.

Course Outline

CS3 Suite Integration

Photoshop

• Using Layer PSD Files
• Editing PSD files

Fireworks

• Slicing and Optimising

Flash

• Using Flash Content

Frames

• Usings framsets
• Frames vs CSS

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
• 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

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

HTML Code

• Setting up your coding environment
• Customising your coding environment
• Writting and editing code
• Collapsing Code
• Editing Code in Design View
• Working with head content

SPRY - New in CS3

• AJAX Overview
• Spry Framework
• Using Spry Widgets
• Working with XML
• Using Spry Effects

Compatibility

• Browser Compatibility Check
• Correcting Compataility Errors

Dreamweaver CS3: Level 2 (2 day) / ADWCS3-21