Dreamweaver Essentials Course

Dreamweaver Essentials | Course Overview

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, which includes information relating to the underlying code of web sites and website principles.

What You Will Learn

  • Site planning and preparation
  • Establishing a site
  • Creating web 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 tips
  • Testing the site
  • Publishing to the web
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Dreamweaver Essentials

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Dreamweaver Essentials

Adobe Dreamweaver Essentials Course

Dreamweaver Essentials | 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.

Adobe Dreamweaver Essentials Course
MELBOURNE
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May Jun Jul Aug Sept Oct
HTML & Web Principles 22 1
31
21 10
30
24
Dreamweaver Essentials 23 & 24 2 & 3 22 & 23 1 & 2
CSS Essentials 3 & 4 10 & 11 26 & 27 10 & 11
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BRISBANE
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May Jun Jul Aug Sept Oct
HTML & Web Principles 1 19 26 2 16
Dreamweaver Essentials 25 & 26 3 & 4 19 & 20 Nov
CSS Essentials Currently not available as a public course but private training can be organised.
CANBERRA
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May Jun Jul Aug Sept Oct
HTML & Web Principles 15 12 14
Dreamweaver Essentials 13 & 14
CSS Essentials 3 & 4

Dreamweaver Essentials | Testimonials

"This is the second course I have taken with CD Training. Jonathon, again was excellent. I have signed up several of my staff to receive the training based on the success of these courses."

"The trainer is a wonderful teacher. Thank you City Desktop! I feel confident I can go build a website and leverage my freelance career."

"Fantastic course. Very happy I chose City Desktop. Most professional training I have attended."

"Jonathon is a wonderful teacher and thank you City Desktop! I feel confident I can go build a website and leverage my freelance career."

"It was really great experience to learn this course with a very helpful and co-operative trainer. Linda you are the best."

"Was excellent and thank you for the notes and textbook! Was very easy to understand."

"Mark is a totally engaging instructor who held my attention through out."

"This was another great course. The content was easy to understand and timing worked well."

"Enjoyed the course. Linda was great and answered all questions. Thanks Linda."

"Jonathon was brilliant - very thorough and gave loads of helpful tips and examples."

"Loved this course, extremeley beneficial and Linda was lovely and inspiring! I look forward to creating websites."

"Fantastic training that has given a novice great insight into web development."

"This was a very practical, hands on course, which is a great way to learn this material."

"Linda is a fantastic teacher! She has a wealth of information at her fingertips."

"This is a very informative course, and a highly qualified trainer who obviously has a lot of first hand knowledge. Thanks"

"It was great. I have primarily been involved with print, so it has been great to see the web side of design. Definitely will help in future."

"I enjoyed learning the course in a relaxed, informative environment."

"Nicole was great. Came into the class a little worried, but she has explained everything so well with tips and hints and lots of examples! Thanks."

"Loved the course. John was extremely helpful - thank you!"

"City Desktop's Dreamweaver Essentials course was easy to follow, informative and fun."

"Excellent material and instruction."

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