Adobe Dreamweaver & Fireworks CS3: Web Creation

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Course Overview

Dreamweaver CS3 is the industry-leading website creation tool, enabling users to efficiently design, develop and maintain websites. Fireworks CS3 enables users to create, edit and optimise graphics and images for the web with precise control. The combination of the two programmes will enable you to design, build and maintain professional websites.

Audience

Our Essentials Adobe Web Creation with Dreamweaver and Fireworks course is targeted at the needs of the beginner or first time user.

Course Outline

How do websites work?

• The 'bigger picture' - the Internet
• Enabling your website to be viewed on the Internet
• Building a user friendly website
• Your target audience
• Accessibility and legal responsibilities

Dreamweaver CS3 Overview

• Introducing Dreamweaver CS3
• Learning the interface
• Dreamweaver Fireworks workflow

Fireworks CS3 Overview

• Introducing Fireworks CS3
• Learning the interface
• Fireworks Dreamweaver workflow

HTML Code

• Understanding HTML code
• Viewing examples of HTML code
• Basic HTML exercises

Getting Started

• Creating a site folder
• Creating a new local site
• Working with your site files

Basic Page Creation

• Create a new basic HTML page
• Add and format text content
• Insert graphics and images
• Test and preview the page

Page Layout with Tables

• Overview of tables
• Designing a page layout with tables
• Creating table structures
• Modifying and nesting tables
• Formatting text, images and data in tables

Cascading Style Sheets - CSS

• Overview of CSS
• Styling with CSS
• Creating an internal style sheet
• Creating an external style sheet
• Attaching style sheets to multiple pages

Navigating your site

• Understanding site navigation
• Creating internal site links
• Creating external links
• Creating email links
• Creating page anchor links
• Creating image links

Working with Graphics and Images

• Overview of web-based image creation
• Sourcing, editing & optimizing images
• Creating & manipulating graphics
• Creating slices, rollovers & hotspots
• Adding Flash content

Templates and Libaries

• Overview of templates
• Creating site templates
• Defining editable regions
• Applying templates
• Modify and update templates
• Creat a site library
• Modify and update library items

Adding Interactive Content

• Overview of JavaScript Behaviours
• Creat and edit a JavaScript
• Behaviour

Creating Forms

• Understanding forms
• Creating a basic form
• Processing a form

Site Testing, Maintenance and Uploading

• Testing your site
• Connecting your site to the Internet
• Uploading & maintaining your site

Follow On Courses

On completion of this course you may be interested in our advanced Cascading Style Sheets or Database Integration courses. Alternatively, our Creation of HTML Email course may be of interest.

Adobe Dreamweaver & Fireworks CS3: Web Creation / cm64838