Adobe Dreamweaver CS4 - Introduction to Website Design — A 3-day course
Synopsis
Adobe Dreamweaver: Website Design provides web designers with the knowledge and hands-on practice they need to build and manage professional web sites using Dreamweaver.
Course Objectives
In this course, you will examine the basics of Dreamweaver with a focus on best practices and design. What you will learn:
- Adobe Dreamweaver Interface Basics
- Creating a website
- Controlling document structure
- Intro to Cascading Style Sheets
- Adding Graphics
- Building Successful Site Navigation
- Designing Pages with CSS
- Fireworks -Dreamweaver integration
- Creating Templates and Site Maintenance.
Intended Audience
This course is for people new to web design and development and want to use Dreamweaver to build intuitive, attractive and accessible web sites.
Prerequisites
To gain the most from this class, students should:
- Be familiar with Windows or Mac OS X
- Use and have knowledge of the web environment and web browsers
- Have a basic understanding of document formatting programs, such as Microsoft Word.
Publicly scheduled dates, locations, and prices
London — £695 (+VAT)
- 12–14 Apr 2010
- 10–12 May 2010
- 7–9 Jun 2010
Birmingham — £695 (+VAT)
- 26–28 Apr 2010
- 21–23 Jun 2010
Manchester — £695 (+VAT)
- 12–14 Apr 2010
- 21–23 Jun 2010
Newcastle — £695 (+VAT)
- 26–28 Apr 2010
- 28–30 Jun 2010
Glasgow — £695 (+VAT)
- 5–7 Apr 2010
- 7–9 Jun 2010
Course Contents
Outlining the course content
- The Dreamweaver screen
- Creating a new HTML page
- Creating page elements
- Previewing a page in a browser
Creating a new site
The importance of planning
Defining site location
Adding folders
Working with tables
Adding links
- Hyper-links
- Email links
- Named Anchor links
Rollover buttons
Working with images
Image maps
Creating a site template
Adding 'editable regions' to templates
Applying templates to site pages
Editing a template
Creating a web form
Using Library items
Editing images with Photoshop and Fireworks
Cascading style sheets
- Creating style sheets to
- define text
- to define page structure
- to define links
Dealing with overset text
Adding Flash elements to pages
- Flash buttons
- Flash text
- Flash animations
- Flash video
Adding interactive behaviours
Using Spry widgets
- Spry menu bar
- Spry tabbed panel
- Spry accordion
- Spry collapsible panel
