Dreamweaver CS5 Course - ACA

Course Structure

Session 1

Section A: Introduction

• Starting Dreamweaver
• Interface Overview
• Panels
• Docking/Undocking
• Collapse to Icons
• Document Toolbar
• Standard Toolbar
• Style Rendering Toolbar
• Tabbed Document View
• Property Inspector
• Status Bar

Section B: Planning and Preparation

• Web Site Goals
• Target Audience
• Site Mapping
• Screen Resolution
• Target Window Layout
• Defining a Web Site

Section C: Web Design Essentials

• File Management
• Creating, Renaming, and Deleting Files
• Page Titles
• Page Properties

Section D: Text Formatting and Structure

• HTML Text Formatting
• Using Lists
• HTML Character Formatting
• Spell Check
• Importing Text
• Clean Up Imported Text HTML
• Importing Tabular Data

Section E: Links

• Creating Text Links
• Point to File Method
• Inserting Hyperlinks
• Absolute Links
• Previewing Links
• Image Links
• Email Links
• Image Map
• Named Anchors
• Linking to Named Anchors

Section F: Working with Images

• File Size vs. Image Quality
• GIF
• JPEG
• PNG
• Background Images
• Background Images via HTML
• Background Images via CSS
• Foreground Images
• Using the Insert Panel
• Editing Images
• Native Photoshop Images

Section G: XHTML

• XHTML Defined
• DocTypes
• Specifying DocTypes
• Code View vs. Design View
• Quick Tag Editor
• Using the Tag Selector
• Adding HTML Head Tags
• Clean Up XHTML

Session 2

Section A: Templates

• Save as Template
• Creating Editable Regions
• Optional Regions
• Create Page from Template
• Repeating Regions
• Resolving Inconsistent Region Names
• Adding Table Content
• Repeating Table Controls
• Updating Templates and Pages

Section B: CSS Essentials

• CSS Defined
• Selector Types
• Class Selector
• ID Selector
• Tag Selector
• Compound Selector
• Code Navigator

Section C: Working with CSS

• Embedded vs. External Style Locations
• Exporting Styles
• Attaching Style Sheets
• Edit Styles with Inspect Mode
• Enable CSS

Section D: AP Elements

• AP Divs Defined
• Tracing Images
• Drawing AP Elements
• Inserting AP Divs
• Modifying AP Divs
• Applying CSS Properties to AP Divs
• Converting AP Divs to Tables

Section E: Working with Tables

• Inserting Tables
• Formatting Tables using HTML
• Inserting Rows and Columns
• Formatting Table Cells
• Formatting Tables using CSS
• Expanded Tables Mode

Session 3

Section A: Working with Forms

• Inserting Forms
• Text Fields
• Text Field Properties
• Checkboxes
• Checkbox Properties
• Radio Buttons
• Drop-Down Menus
• Text Area
• Submit Button
• Submit Form Action
• Image Field
• Form Testing

Section B: Interactivity

• Adding Flash Content
• SWF Properties
• Flash Video
• Adding Sound
• Adding Video

Section C: Behaviors

• Rollover Images
• Open Browser Window
• Event Actions
• Check Plugin Behavior
• Adding Spry Effects

Section D: Productivity

• Creating and Applying Effects
• The History Panel
• Library Items
• Editing Library Items
• Using Find and Replace

Section E: Site Publishing

• Web Publishing Essentials
• Managing Servers
• Local Network Connection
• Upload to Remote Server
• Synchronizing
• Cloaking Files

Section F: Site Management and Collaboration

• Using BrowserLab
• Design Notes
• Viewing Design Notes
• File Check-Out
• Checking Out Files
• Checking In Files
• Workflow Reports
• HTML Reports

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