This is a 2 Day Introduction to Macromedia Dreamweaver course. Dreamweaver CS3 CS4 CS5 is the industry standard for visual web development. It provides unrivalled facilities for the creation of sophisticated pages, while offering a user-friendly interface and excellent productivity tools. The purpose of the program is to make it easy to create a website without having to know how to code with HTML.
Prerequisites
No previous experience of Dreamweaver is required.
Benefits
Students will create web sites that include frame-based pages, tables, graphics, and links. By the end of the course, students will have created an entire website in Dreamweaver MX and learned to upload the site to a server
Course Content
Designing a Web Site
§ Overview
§ Planning a Web Site
§ Organising a Web Site
§ Using Design and Style Guidelines
§ Understanding HTML Documents
Getting Started with Dreamweaver
§ Understanding the Dreamweaver Workspace
§ Exploring the Toolbar
§ Using the Status Bar
§ Using Floating Panels
§ Defining a Web Site
§ Learning Site Window Basics
§ Previewing Web Pages
Creating a Web Page
§ Creating a New Page with Text
§ Saving a Web Page
§ Inserting Images
§ Undoing and Redoing Actions
§ Setting Page Properties
§ Working with the Head Section
Working with the Site Map and Site Files
§ Understanding Site Map Basics
§ Designating a Home Page
§ Displaying the Site Map
§ Adding Structure with the Site Window
§ Updating Links
Inserting Text, Lines, Dates, and Symbols
§ Adding Text to a Web Page
§ Importing Word HTML Files
§ Copying and Pasting HTML Source Code
§ Using Design Notes
§ Using Horizontal Rules
§ Inserting Special Characters
§ Inserting the Date
Formatting Text
§ Understanding Text Formatting
§ Specifying Selection Formatting
§ Specifying Paragraph Formatting
§ Creating Lists
§ Defining and Applying HTML Styles
§ Editing and Deleting HTML Styles
§ Working with Tables
§ Using a Layout Grid
Positioning with Layers
§ Designing with Layers in Dreamweaver
§ Using Layers to layout the Rates Page
§ Converting Layers to Tables
§ Converting to a Tables-Based Layout
Modifying Tables and Using Layout View
§ Inserting a Table
§ Selecting Table Elements
§ Inserting and Deleting Rows and Columns
§ Modifying Table Properties
§ Modifying Cell Properties
§ Understanding Layout View
§ Creating a Table in Layout View
§ Using Autostretch
Working with Templates
§ Creating a Template
§ Creating a Web Page from a Template
§ Editing a Template
§ Applying a Template
§ Detaching a Template
Working with the Assets Panel and Library Items
§ Understanding the Assets Panel
§ Adding Assets to a Page
§ Editing Image Assets
§ Managing Assets
§ Creating and Inserting a Library Item
§ Editing a Library Item
Working with Images
§ Understanding Image Formats
§ Working with Image File Links
§ Modifying Image Properties
§ Aligning Images with Text
Working with Links
§ Understanding Links
§ Understanding Link Paths
§ Creating Links
§ Creating and Linking to Anchors
§ Creating an Image Map
Navigation Bars
§ Inserting a Navigation Bar
§ Modifying a Navigation Bar
META Tags and Search Engines
§ How Search Engines Work
§ META Tags
§ Inserting META Tags in Dreamweaver
§ Adding META Tags to your Home Page
Uploading Site Files
§ Uploading a Web Site
§ Configuring Remote Info
§ Putting and Getting Files
Cascading Style Sheets
§ Creating a new Style in Dreamweaver
§ Editing a Style
§ Adding CSS Styles to your Site
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