Creative Suite Web Design - JumpStart

Training

In Glasgow, London, Manchester and 2 other venues

£ 997 + VAT

Description

Suitable for: Novice Adobe Flash CS4 and Adobe Dreamweaver CS4 users. People who want to learn how to build websites

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Cardiff
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Malthouse Avenue Cardiff Gate Business Park, CF23 8RU

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Glasgow (Glasgow City)
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George House 36 North Hanover Street, G1 2AD

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Leeds (West Yorkshire)
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Bruntwood, 6th Floor Westone Wellington Street, LS1 1BA

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London
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Centre For Media Excellence 7a Bayham Street, Mornington Crescent, NW1 0EY

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Manchester (Greater Manchester)
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40 Princess Street, M1 6DE

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About this course

To gain the most from this class, students should:

* Be familiar with Windows or Mac OS X
* Be familiar with the web and its terminology

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Subjects

  • ActionScript
  • Flash
  • Design
  • Sound
  • Creative Suite
  • Graphics
  • Layout
  • Adobe
  • Drawing
  • Web
  • Dreamweaver
  • Adobe Flash

Course programme

Two of the most important software programs when building websites are Adobe Dreamweaver and Adobe Flash. The Creative Suite Web Design MasterClass covers all the content from our intro DreamWeaver and Flash training courses over just 5 days

What You'll Learn

By the time students have finished the course they will have know how to

  • 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 CS4 -Dreamweaver CS4 integration
  • Creating Templates and Site Maintenance.
  • Create an Adobe Flash Document
  • Set up a Adobe Flash 8 document
  • Import and create graphics
  • Use Adobe Flash 8 drawing tools
  • Create and use symbols
  • Produce Motion and Shape animations
  • Import Sound and Video
  • Use Scipt Assist and Behaviors to add simple interactivity
  • Publish an Adobe Flash Document in one of several formats

Course Content

Introducing the Course
  • Understanding the course format
  • Reviewing the course objectives and prerequisites
  • Looking at the course outline
Adobe Flash CS4 New Features
  • New user interface
  • Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator integration
  • New drawing tools
  • Actionscript 3.0
  • Actionscript 3.0 Animation
  • Actionscript 3.0 Debugger
  • Flash Video Technology
  • UI componenets
  • Adobe Device Central CS4
Creating and Importing Graphic Assets
  • Working with different graphic formats
  • Importing bitmap graphics
  • Importing vector graphics
  • Working with layers and layer folders
  • Using the drawing tools
  • Using object and merge drawing
  • Working with the Color panels
  • Creating and using Graphic symbols
  • Using the Library panel
Using Text Effectively
  • Using the Text tool
  • Adding and formatting static text
  • Changing font rendering methods
  • Adding input text fields
  • Embedding fonts in input text fields
  • Using font best practices
Creating Animations
  • Working with the Timeline
  • Using keyframes, blank keyframes, and frames
  • Creating motion tweens
  • Creating shape tweens
  • Creating transition effects
  • Using animation best practices
Adding ActionScript with Script Assist and Behaviors
  • Using Script Assist
  • Adding actions to a frame
  • Creating and using Button symbols
  • Adding behaviors to a button
  • Loading external SWFs
Using Moving Clips
  • Creating and using Movie Clip symbols
  • Organizing a Movie Clip Timeline
  • Using actions to control a Timeline
  • Using frame labels
  • Responding to user interactions
Adding Sound and Video
  • Importing sound
  • Changing sound properties
  • Adding sound to a Timeline
  • Embedding video in a Timeline
  • Using the FLVPlayback component
Publishing Flash Documents
  • Using different publishing formats
  • Using publishing profiles
  • Adding Flash Player detection
  • Publishing for deployment
Dreamweaver CS4 New Features
  • CSS Layouts
  • CSS Management
  • CSS Advisor
  • Browser Compatability
  • Spry Data
  • Spry Widgets
  • Spry Effects
  • Photoshop CS4 Integration
  • Adobe Device Central
  • Adobe Bridge CS4
Getting Started
  • Introducing Dreamweaver CS4
  • Learning the interface
  • Defining a local site
  • Creating a website
Adding Content to a Site
  • Adding content
  • Controlling document structure
  • Making lists
  • Adding horizontal rules
  • Adding special characters
Formatting with Cascading Style Sheets
  • Formatting text
  • Introducing cascading style sheets
  • Creating styles
  • Exporting CSS rule definitions
  • Creating class styles
  • Attaching external style sheets
  • Creating advanced styles
  • Creating a new external style sheet
  • Displaying styles
  • Understanding cascading order and inheritance of styles
Working with Graphics
  • Using graphics on web pages
  • Placing graphics on the page
  • Modifying image properties
  • Editing images
  • Doing roundtrip editing with Fireworks CS4/Photshop CS4

Customizing the Insert bar

  • Adding Flash content
  • Adding Flash Video
Navigating Your Site
  • Understanding site navigation
  • Linking to files in your site
  • Linking to sites
  • Linking to named anchors
  • Adding e-mail links
  • Linking from images
  • Creating a jump menu
Designing Page Layouts with CSS
  • Understanding page layout
  • Using layers for layout
  • Adding CSS to layers
  • Using absolute and relative positioning
  • Designing with DIVs
  • Designing navigation links with CSS
  • Importing tabular data
  • Using table layout view
Using Libraries and Templates
  • Using site library items
  • Creating site templates
  • Defining editable regions
  • Using templates
  • Applying a template to an existing page
  • Modifying templates
Creating Forms
  • Understanding forms
  • Processing a form
  • Setting focus in a form
  • Validating a form
Testing, Maintenance, and Uploading
  • Testing your site
  • Maintaining your files and folders
  • Connecting to a remote site
  • Synchronizing files

Our goal is to make sure your class meets your objectives, not ours. Therefore, all of our outlines are treated as guides to help steer the workshop. We may change or alter course topics to best suit the classroom situation. A certificate will be given on completion of the course and you may also have the opportunity to sit for an accredited exam. Courses may also be customized to fit your exact requirements.

Additional information

Payment options: Note: Price is per delegate and excludes VAT, which will be charged at the UK standard rate of 15%.

Creative Suite Web Design - JumpStart

£ 997 + VAT