Dreamweaver CS5 Introduction
3 day training course
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Dreamweaver is the industry standard software for creating and managing web-sites. It allows you to work the way that suits you: at a non-technical level using high-level, designer type dialogues and controls or at a technical level working directly with the code - or moving seemlessly from one to the other.
This course is designed to be an introduction for those wishing to learn how to use Dreamweaver to create web-sites in keeping with current standards. The main features of the software will be explored in detail.
The course is delivered through instructor led, hands-on exercises tempered with overviews, demonstrations, discussions and individual practice.
Suitable For
Those new to Dreamweaver looking to get a good understanding of its main features.
Prerequisites
A good working knowledge of the computer and its operating system - for example to be at ease with: opening, closing, saving and locating files; using standard menus, commands and windows.
Course Content
- Customising your workspace
- Switching and splitting views, managing panels, toolbars and workspaces, keyboard shortcuts.
- HTML basics
- HTML overview, writing your own HTML code, common HTML code.
- CSS basics
- CSS overview, HTML vs CSS formatting, CSS box model, element, class and id selectors.
- Quick Start
- Defining a local site, working with CSS layouts, formatting content, Live View, previewing in browser.
- Creating a page layout
- Web design basics, modifying a CSS layout, working with div elements, image and text placeholders.
- Working with CSS
- CSS Styles panel, creating rules, interactive menus, faux columns, external and media style sheets.
- Working with templates
- Creating a template, editable regions, child pages, updating templates, library items, SSIs.
- Working with text, lists and tables
- Importing text, creating headings, lists, indents, styling tables, spell checking, find and replace.
- Working with images
- Inserting images, Photoshop Smart Objects, using Fireworks with Dreamweaver, optimising images in Dreamweaver.
- Working with navigation
- Hyperlink basics, internal, external and email links, image based links.
- Adding interactivity
- Behaviours, Spry Accordion widget.
- Working with Flash
- Adding Flash and Flash video to a web-page.
- Publishing to the web
- Defining a remote site, cloaking files and folders, uploading, synchronising sites.
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