Adobe Dreamweaver Introduction

• Begin creating a website from scratch
• Layout, style, layer and edit content and graphics
• Elements of the CSS language
• Insert internal and external links for sites, email and images
• Test your site and manage files and folders

Course outline:

Day 1

Lesson 1 Introducing the Course

• Understanding and reviewing the course format
• Reviewing the course objectives and prerequisites
• Outlining at the course content
• Understanding static page architecture

Lesson 2 Getting Started

• Introducing Dreamweaver CS3 and learning the interface
• Defining a local site and Creating a website

Lesson 3 Adding Content to a Site

• Adding content and Controlling document structure
• Making lists, adding horizontal rules and special characters

Lesson 4 Formatting with Cascading Style Sheets

• Formatting text and Creating styles
• Introducing cascading style sheets and Exporting CSS rule definitions
• Creating class and advanced styles and Attaching external style sheets
• Creating a new external style sheet and displaying styles
• Understanding cascading order and inheritance of styles
• Creating internal styles with the Property inspector

Lesson 5 Working with Graphics

• Using and placing graphics on web pages
• Modifying image properties and editing images
• Doing roundtrip editing with Fireworks and customising the Insert bar
• Adding Flash content and Video

Day 2

Lesson 1 Navigating Your Site

• Understanding site navigation
• Linking to files and to sites in your site
• Linking to named anchors and adding e-mail links
• Linking from images and creating a jump menu

Lesson 2 Designing Page Layouts with CSS

• Understanding page layout and using layers
• Adding CSS to layers and using absolute and relative positioning
• Designing with DIVs and designing navigation links with CSS
• Importing tabular data and using table layout view

Lesson 3 Using Libraries and Templates

• Using site library items and creating site templates
• Defining editable regions and using templates
• Applying and modifying a template to an existing page

Lesson 4 Creating Forms

• Understanding and processing forms
• Setting focus and validating a form

Lesson 5 Testing, Maintaining, and Uploading

• Testing your site and maintaining your files and folders
• Connecting to a remote site and synchronising files