Dreamweaver
Essentials Course $895 $795 
Course Description
The 2 day course is for people who want to learn about web site design using Dreamweaver and is suitable for those working on small or large web sites. If you are completely new to building web sites, then it is strongly recommended that you attend the 1 Day HTML Essentials (only $395 with this course), which includes information relating to the underlying code of web sites and website principles.
What You Will Learn
During the 2 day Dreamweaver Essentials course, the following topics are covered. See outline below for more in depth detail:
- - Dreamweaver's Code View for HTML & CSS
- - Starting your Site
- - Properties Inspector & Linking
- - CSS for Styling & CSS for Layout
- - Working with Tables & Text
- - Assets Panel
- - Working with Images
- - Designing Forms, Site Features, Libraries & Templates
- - JavaScript Behaviours, Adding Spry Elements, Inserting Flash
- - FTP: Uploading your Site
Dreamweaver Essentials - Course Outline
Web Page Design Overview
- - Browsers and source code
- - Text Editors, HTML vs XHTML, CSS Overview
- - Content vs Styling
- - Common web languages
- - CSS
- - JavaScript
- - Code Versions
- - The W3C
- - Viewing Code in a browser
Preparing to create a website
- - The Design process
- - The Planning process
- - Organising your files and site folder structure
- - Design considerations
- - Screen resolution, fonts
- - Mac or Windows OS
- - The Firefox Web Developer Toolbar
Getting Started in Dreamweaver
- - Dreamweaver features overview
- - Roundtrip HTML & image editing
- - CSS templates
- - Spry tools
- - Easy Table Editing
- - Built in JavaScript Behaviours
- - Assets Panel categories
- - The Reference panel
- - Code checking and reporting tools
- - Exploring the Dreamweaver Inferface
- - Workspace elements
- - Properties Panel
- - Status Bar
- - Tag Selector
- - Using Workspace Layouts
- - Setting up ideal Dreamweaver Preferences
- - Defining a website
- - The local root folder
- - Creating new pages - CSS vs Tables
- - Saving web pages and file naming considerations
- - Choosing a Document View
- - Setting Head tags: Title, Meta and Description
Working with Text, Lists & Tables
- - Insert and Modify Text and Headings
- - Create Lists
- - Spell Checking
- - Special Characters
- - Multiple Space
- - Previewing Pages in Browsers
- - Creating Tables
- - Insert Table dialog box
- - Setting Table elements
- - Editing and manipulating Tables
Working with Images
- - Image Considerations
- - Image Formats
- - File Size
- - Transparency
- - Image Attributes
- - Inset an Image
- - Using the Assets Panel
- - Image Editing Tools: Fireworks & Photoshop
- - Optimising an images file size
- - Creating Image Rollovers
- - Image Maps
- - Document Relative Links
- - Absolute Paths
- - Root Relative Paths
- - Automatic Link Checking
Working with Links
Working with CSS
- - Styling - HTML vs CSS
- - Benefits of CSS
- - Styling Workflow
- - Setting Page Properties
- - What are Style Rules
- - Tag / Element
- - Classes
- - IDs
- - Advanced / Compound
- - Style Rule Locations
- - Style Categories: Type, Background, Block, Box, Border, List
- - Style Positioning
- - Style Values
- - The CSS Styles Panel
- - Creating Style Rules
- - Editing a CSS Rule
- - Create and apply Class Selectors
- - Create Contextual Selectors
- - Exporting Style Rules
- - Linking to Style Sheets
- - Dreamweaver's CSS Page Layouts
Working with Forms
- - Introduction to Form Design
- - Action & Method
- - Form Element Properties
- - Forms Fields: Text, Hidden, Buttons, Check boxes, List/ Menu
- - Jump Menus
- - Accessibility Options
Introducing Spry
- - Spry Overview
- - Spry Menu Bar Widgets
Increasing Productivity
- - Templates
- - Updating Templates
- - Libraries
- - History Panel
- - Saving as a Command
Publishing to the Web
- - Site Definition Dialog Box
- - FTP: Defining Remote Information
- - Transferring Files
- - Host Service Considerations
Additional Information
- - Website Design Workflow
- - Plan your site
- - Design a mock-up
- - Define your local site
- - Define the structure of your page design
- - Create a template
- - Test and publish
Web Design Resource Links
At the end of this 2 day Dreamweaver course, students will have a solid understanding of Dreamweaver and the web design process. This will enable them to design, create and manage their own web sites.
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| Dreamweaver Advanced | 2 & 3 | 28 & 29 | - | - | - |
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| MELBOURNE | September | October | November | December | January |
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| Dreamweaver Advanced | - | - | Please Call | - | - |
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| Dreamweaver Advanced | - | - | Please Call | - | - |
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| HTML & Web Principles | 21 | - | 23 | - | - |
