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Adobe Dreamweaver CS4: Introduction for Beginners (3 day)

Course Code: cm71951      Days: 3
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Course Overview

Adobe Dreamweaver CS4 is the worldwide tool of choice for those who need to design, build and manage professional websites. This course has been specifically designed to enable you to master the essentials of Dreamweaver quickly and easily. You will cover creating, editing, publishing and updating a website as well as adding elements to existing sites and important site management issues.

This three day course includes understanding the development process, adding content to an existing site, understanding the power of style sheets (CSS), working with buttons and rollovers, creating jump menus and publishing, testing and maintaining your site. This course will provide you with the expertise to produce and maintain innovative, professional websites using Dreamweaver.

If you are an existing Dreamweaver user looking for a course covering the powerful new features in Dreamweaver CS4, please see our Upgrade to Dreamweaver CS4 outline instead. This course has been classified as IT Technical Training.

Audience

This extremely popular course is the Adobe authorised introductory course for new users of Dreamweaver who wish to build professional websites.

Course Outline

Introduction

Introducing Dreamweaver

  • Course objectives
  • Static page architecture

Getting started

  • Introduction to Dreamweaver
  • Dreamweaver interface basics
  • Creating a local site
  • Creating a new HTML page
  • Using development views
  • Previewing pages
  • Setting document properties
  • The Related Files bar

Adding content to a site

  • Adding content
  • Importing text files
  • Importing Word and Excel content
  • Controlling document structure
  • Creating lists
  • Horizontal rules
  • Adding special characters

Formatting text with CSS

  • Formatting text
  • Cascading Style Sheets
  • Creating styles
  • Exporting CSS rule definitions
  • Creating class styles
  • Creating advanced styles
  • Editing CSS code in the Property Inspector

External styles

  • Attaching external style sheets
  • Working with Live Code
  • Creating new external style sheets
  • Displaying styles
  • Cascading order and inheritance of styles
  • Creating internal styles
  • The Code Navigator feature

Working with graphics

  • Seamless integration with Photoshop and Fireworks
  • Placing graphics on the page
  • Accessibility settings
  • Integration with Adobe Photoshop
  • Importing layered images
  • Optimising an image
  • Adding Flash content

Navigating your site

  • Linking files to your site
  • Adding anchors
  • Adding email links
  • Linking from images
  • Linking from an image map
  • Creating a navigation bar
  • Inserting a jump menu

Using libraries and templates

  • Creating library items
  • Placing and editing library items
  • Detaching library items
  • Creating templates
  • Applying a template to an existing image
  • Defining editable regions
  • Modifying templates

Designing pages with CSS

  • Dreamweaver CSS templates
  • Inserting DIV tags
  • Using the rulers and guides
  • Drawing layers to design your pages
  • Adding CSS to a layer
  • Working with Live Code
  • Attaching external style sheets
  • Adding tables
  • The Spry Framework for Ajax - an overview
  • Importing tabular data
  • The Adobe CSS Advisor website

Creating forms

  • Creating a form
  • Form processing
  • Setting focus on a form
  • Adding JavaScript
  • Form validation in Dreamweaver

Testing, maintenance and uploading

  • Checking accessibility, links and browser compatibility
  • Using the integrated File Browser
  • Connecting to a remote site
  • Cloaking folders and files
  • Uploading files
  • Synchronising files
  • Using browser compatibility check

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