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Book an Introductory Adobe Dreamweaver Course

dreamweaver cs5 course logoAdobe Dreamweaver Training Essentials: $795

Course Description

This 2 day course is for people who want to learn how to build, edit and update websites using Dreamweaver, the leading industry-standard web authoring software. From planning the layout through to uploading the files, all the essential steps in an efficient comprehensive workflow will be covered.

This is an introductory course, aimed at beginners, but if you are completely new to web development, it is strongly recommended that you attend the 1 Day HTML Essentials (only $495 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:

  • — Site planning and preparation
    — Setting up the Dreamweaver workspace
    — Establishing a site
    — Creating pages
    — Adding text and images
    — Formatting text with CSS
    — Page layout with CSS
  • — Using Dreamweaver templates
    — Working with lists and tables
    — Links, navigation and interactivity
    — Creating forms with Spry (AJAX) validation
    — Search engine optimisation basics
    — Testing the site
    — Publishing to the web
Training Course Benefits

See outline below for more in depth detail:

Course Outline

Preparing to Create a Website

  • Design considerations
  • The planning process
  • Organising files and site folder structure

    Screen resolution, fonts, browsers

Setting up the Dreamweaver Workspace

  • Introduction to the workspace
  • Code and Design views
  • Managing panels
  • Saving a workspace
  • Using the Property Inspector

Establishing a site and creating pages

  • Defining a site
  • Selecting a page layout
  • Setting page title
  • Changing headings
  • Adding text and images
  • Formatting
  • Previewing the page in browsers

Introduction to CSS (Cascading Style Sheets)

  • The CSS Panel
  • Making and editing CSS rules
  • Styling text with CSS Tag and Class rules
  • Image position with CSS Tag rules
  • Page layout with CSS ID and Compound rules
  • The CSS box model
  • Centering page content

Creating Page Layouts

  • Modifying existing CSS page layout
  • Background images and colours
  • DIVs
  • Page width
  • Image and text placeholders
  • Browser compatibility

Further CSS

  • Working with CSS rules
  • Creating an interactive menu
  • Modifying hyperlink behaviour
  • External CSS stylesheets
  • The Style Rendering Toolbar
  • Stylesheets for other devices

Dreamweaver Templates

  • Creating a Template
  • Editable Regions
  • Making new Template based pages
  • Editing the Template
  • Creating a Library Item
  • Inserting Library Items
  • Editing Library Items

Lists and Tables

  • Importing text
  • Creating and styling Lists
  • Creating and styling Tables

 

Images

  • Web image file formats
  • Image resolution and size
  • Inserting images
  • Optimising images from within Dreamweaver
  • Cropping images from within Dreamweaver

Navigation

  • Hyperlink basics
  • Internal and external hyperlinks
  • Email links
  • Targeting page elements
  • Testing hyperlinks in a browser

Forms

  • Adding a form
  • Inserting text fields
  • Inserting checkboxes
  • Spry validation elements
  • Inserting list menus
  • Inserting a submit button
  • Specifying the form action

Search Engine Optimisation

  • Testing for broken links
  • Checking for missing <alt> and missing <title>
  • Adding keywords and description metadata
  • Overview of the factors that affect search ranking
  • Checking the site against current SEO guidelines

Publishing to the Web

  • Managing and cloaking files
  • Defining a remote site
  • Putting the site to the server
  • Editing and synchronising

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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COURSE OUTLINES

css training logo Advanced Dreamweaver & CSS*
 2 day course: $895

dynamic dreamweaver training logo Dynamic Dreamweaver Outline*
2 day course: $995

* Prerequisite quiz required.

MELBOURNE January February March April May June
Dreamweaver Essentials 17 & 18 14 & 15 20 & 21 — 15 & 16 19 & 20
CSS / Adv Dreamweaver — — 22 & 23 — 21 & 22 —
Dynamic Dreamweaver
& Web Development 		— — 1 & 2 — — 21 & 22

 

 

BRISBANE January February March April May June
Dreamweaver Essentials — 23 & 24 — — — 5 & 6 July
Dreamweaver Advanced Currently not available as a public course in Brisbane. Private training can be organised onsite.