Adobe Dreamweaver: Introduction, Intermediate and Advanced in 1 Week

London (N7)

19/04/10

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995

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Course Overview

Dreamweaver has a very wide range of applications. The Adobe Dreamweaver One Week Special offers comprehensive coverage of both basic and advanced features. Delegates will learn the essential aspects of the program and the process of creating basic sites and making them live. However the course also covers Dreamweaver's more sophisticated features for creating interactive web pages.

The course comprises:

• Dreamweaver Intro (2 days)
• Dreamweaver Intermediate (1 day)
• Dreamweaver Advanced (ASP) (2 days).

Audience

Requires no knowledge of Dreamweaver, web development or HTML.

Course Outline

Dreamweaver: Introduction

Getting started

• Dreamweaver overview
• The Dreamweaver toolbars
• Inspectors and panels
• The Objects panel
• Code and design views
• The Tag Editor
• The tag selector
• Working in site view
• Working in document view
• Getting help
• Using the Reference panel

Basic web pages

• Creating and formatting paragraphs
• Aligning text
• Inserting line breaks
• Setting font attributes
• Changing background and link colours
• Inserting graphics
• Inserting a rollover image
• Using images as backgrounds
• Using Flash buttons
• Using Flash text
• Adding text links
• Adding links to graphics
• Email links

Site set-up

• Creating a new site
• Importing an existing site
• Creating new files and folders
• Specifying local folder information
• Specifying remote host information
• Connecting and uploading to a server
• Updating and deleting files
• Using the Assets panel
• Adding assets to the Favorite list
• Grouping assets

CSS

• Overview of cascading style sheets
• How Dreamweaver handles CSS
• Creating a style rule for a tag
• Creating custom classes
• Creating advanced selectors
• Dreamweaver CSS Styles panel
• Applying classes to elements

Page layout

• CSS and page layout
• Dreamweaver preset CSS layouts
• Fixed, elastic and fluid designs
• Understanding the DIV tag

Modifying DIV attributes

• The Float attribute
• Padding and margin settings
• Absolute positioning

Templates and libraries

• Creating a new template
• Defining editable areas
• Applying templates to documents
• Updating dependent documents
• Creating library items
• Using library items
• Updating library items

Forms

• Creating an HTML form
• Adding text fields
• Adding a text area
• Adding check boxes
• Organising elements with fieldsets
• Radio button groups
• List/Menu
• Submit and Reset buttons
• Form action and method

Dreamweaver: Intermediate

Advanced templates

• Creating repeating regions
• Creating repeating tables
• Alternating background colours
• Creating nested templates
• Editable regions in nested templates
• Creating repeating regions
• Creating optional regions

Site management

• Site preferences
• Check In and Check Out
• Using design notes
• File View Columns
• Cloaking and uncloaking sites
• Creating site reports
• Synchronising local and remote sites
• Testing a site
• Repairing broken links
• Search and Replace HTML code
• Searching specific tags
• Saving searches
• Using regular expressions

AP Layers

• AP Layers overview
• Pros and cons of using layers
• Layers and CSS
• Creating layers
• Setting layer atrributes
• Overlapping content
• Layers and JavaScript behaviors

Behaviors

• Attaching a behavior to the entire document
• Attaching a behavior to an object
• Modifying a behavior
• Swap image
• Browser detection
• Plug-in detection
• Messages and pop-up windows
• Show/Hide layers

Spry and Ajax

• What is Spry?
• The Spry Assets folder
• Spry Tabbed Panels
• Spry Accordion
• Spry Collapsable Panel
• Spry Menu Bar

Timelines and animation

• Using the timeline inspector
• Adding layers to the timeline
• Selecting and inserting keyframes
• Changing layer properties over time
• Defining and modifying layer movement
• Reusing an animation
• Adding Timeline behaviors

Dreamweaver: Advanced (ASP)

Getting started

• What is ASP
• Server-side vs. client-side scripts
• VBScript and JavaScript
• Requirements for running ASP
• Internet Information Server
• Personal Web Server
• Defining a new ASP site

Connections

• Databases and dynamic sites
• What is a database connection
• Creating a DSN
• Creating a DSNless connection
• Connection string parameters
• Dreamweaver's connection folder

Recordsets

• What is a recordset?
• Creating a recordset
• Simple and advanced modes
• What is SQL?
• The SELECT statement
• The ORDER BY clause

Display records

• Adding dynamic content to pages
• Creating Repeat Regions
• Using Recordset Paging
• Using Show Region
• Displaying the current page
• Using Live Data View

Filtering records

• The use of variables
• Setting default values
• Setting run-time values
• Naming variables
• Creating the WHERE clause
• Filtering numeric fields
• Filtering text fields
• Filtering date fields
• Using wildcards

Searches and results

• Creating search pages
• Designing and naming fields
• Buttons and search forms
• Get and Post methods
• Passing parameters across pages
• Go to Detail Page
• Go to Related Page

Writing to databases

• Insert Record
• Naming form fields
• Update Record
• Repopulating the update form
• Delete Record

Dynamic elements

• Making HTML attributes dynamic
• Dynamic text
• Dynamic images
• Dynamic links
• Dynamic drop-down menus
• Dynamic radio buttons

User authentication

• Creating a registration page
• Check User Name
• Creating a log in page
• Log In User
• Restrict Access to Page
• Log Out User
• Using levels in authentication