Dreamweaver: Level 2

Course Overview

Macromedia Dreamweaver MX allows users to design and produce pages for the World Wide Web. The course aims to increase your productivity and knowledge to use Macromedia Dreamweaver MX effectively through the use of Dreamweaver's advanced tools to create and manage complex websites.

Audience

Existing Dreamweaver users who are comfortable with building simple web sites and are ready for more. Web site designers

Prerequisistes

Attendance of our Dreamweaver MX Introduction course or similar knowledge.

Course Outline

Clean Up HTML

• Removing extraneous code from web
• pages created in other packages (e.g.
• FrontPage or Word)

Design and Layout Issues

• Using tables and images for layout.
• Using tracing image.
• Target screen size and speed. Adding
• and removing spacer images.
• Using layout mode.
• Managing Table and Image wrapping
• and position.

Advanced Forms

• Using Images as buttons.
• Text wrapping in text fields.
• Setting up a response page.
• Form field validation.
• Setting List/Menu properties, such as
• multiple select.

Developing HTML Styles

• Creating your own paragraph and
• character styles.

Libraries

• Placing pieces of design or code in a
• reusable library.
• Accessing library items when designing
• a new page.

Customising Dreamweaver

• Setting up your preferred working area.
• Changing Dreamweaver defaults to suit
• the way you work.
• Setting limitation on browser or HTML
• versions.
• Specifying an external HTML editor.
• Asset Favourites
• Managing regularly used assets such as
• images, sounds, clips and other web
• enhancements.

Layers

• Changing the stacking order of layers.
• Nesting layers.
• Using style sheets to create layers.

Cascading Style Sheets

• Understanding what CSS can do.
• Compatibility issued.
• Creating an embedded style sheet.
• Apply custom styles.
• Making an external style sheet and
• linking it to web pages.
• Editing styles.
• Converting internal styles to an external
• style sheet.

Timelines

• The timeline panel.
• Adding layers to the timeline.
• Adding key frames.
• Animating a layer in the timeline.
• Changing visibility of a layer in the
• timeline.
• Record the path of a layer for animation.
• Modifying the timeline.
• Changing the visibility or stacking order
• of an image in the timeline.

Search and Replace Behaviours

• Searching text and searching code.