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Advanced Adobe Dreamweaver Training in Sydney

Course Info

Duration

2 Days

Class Size

Max 8

Course Times

9am to 4pm

Computers

Macs & PCs

Dreamweaver reference bookAfter Course

Book included

Phone

9516 1715

Location

Level 7, 89 York St

Download

Course PDF

Price

$895

Dreamweaver & Advanced CSS Training


Upcoming Classes | Course Outline

Course Description

This Intermediate/ Advanced web design course is aimed at people who have attended the 2 day Dreamweaver Essentials course or for people who have been using Dreamweaver for 12 months or more.

This course will benefit anybody who needs to create professional, consistent looking web sites using Dreamweaver's CSS tools. There is a strong emphasis on creating standards compliant and accessible pages which render consistently within all popular browsers as well as tips on how to position your pages higher in the Search Engine Results pages.

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City Desktop Training provides students with a free 1 Gig USB Flash Drive with their first course, to be able to take their class files away with them.

What you will learn

The focus of the 2 day Dreamweaver Intermediate/ Advanced course is on formatting and laying out your site using CSS instead of tables. It examines advanced design techniques such positioning and floating structural elements, CSS based navigation and creating rounded corners and faux columns.

Other subjects include the following: Creating a favicon for your URL display, Creating print style sheets and designing for mobile devices, Using the coding interface, Creating and styling user accessible forms, Creating and styling interactive elements such as tabbed panels with Spry. See below for detailed course outline.

Upcoming Advanced Dreamweaver Training

December January February March
Dreamweaver Introduction 18 & 19 15 & 16 5 & 6 5 & 6
Dreamweaver Advanced     19 & 20  

 

2 Day Advanced Dreamweaver / CSS Course Outline

Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)– Advanced concepts

The CSS Styles panel in detail, CSS Structure, Advanced CSS Selectors, Understanding the Cascade, Inheritance and Specificity, A detailed look at CSS properties and the best methods of setting values, Combining CSS properties to create advanced effects, Commenting CSS, Hand coding CSS in the coding interface.

CSS Layout

Using the new CSS template pages, Using <div> and <span> to structure your page, Applying ID’s and classes with <div> and <span>, Understanding the CSS box model, Hacks to get around unruly browsers, Using absolute and relative positioning, Understanding floating elements, Clearing floats, Using floats to control page layout, Building structure and assigning IDs, Positioning container elements, Using Dreamweaver's Browser Check feature.

Enhancing page elements

Apply advanced styling to structured content, Creating faux columns with background graphics, Creating rounded corners with background graphics, Browser and search engine friendly CSS based navigation, Multilevel CSS navigation.

Create Output for Other Mediums

Create a print style sheet, Techniques for creating web pages for mobile devices e.g. phones and PDA's, Using the Style Rendering Toolbar, Using Device Central.

Working with Forms

Creating properly structured forms, Creating accessible forms, Using CSS to lay out form structure, Applying advanced styling to forms, Client-side form validation, Validating forms with the Spry Validation tools.

Building AJAX Pages with the Spry Framework

Using Spry widgets, Understanding Spry widget structures, Applying custom styles to Spry widgets, Controlling Spry widget behaviours with JavaScript.


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