Dreamweaver Level 1

Course Overview

This course is designed primarily for new or prospective web designers who want to use Macromedia Dreamweaver to create websites. After completing this course, students will be able to create websites that include tables, graphics, and links
Prerequisites

• It would be useful if delegates had experience of navigating the Internet and websites.
• To ensure success, delegates must have a basic understanding of their computer's operating system.
• Delegates should know how to launch an application, create and save files, and copy files from CDs and other media.

Objectives

Delegates will be able to :

• Create a new web page that contains images, demonstrating the importance of setting the correct image properties
• Create a new web page containing columns of text and images and demonstrate how to position them easily on the page.
• Navigate easily around your website without using the back button on the browser.
• Create and use a Dreamweaver template to control the layout and consistency of websites.
• Upload a site to a remote Live Web server.
• Define a new site within Dreamweaver and explain the basic issues concerning proper site design.
• Create a basic web page and manipulate basic text through the use of style sheets.

Follow on Courses

• Dreamweaver Level 2

Related Courses

• Flash Level 1 (Flash is used to add graphics and movies to websites in Dreamweaver)
• Fireworks Level 1 (Fireworks is used to add graphics (pictures, titles etc) to websites in Dreamweaver)

Training Options

• Bespoke course (a course written to your specific needs) at your company office throughout the UK, at our training venue or at an independent location, convenient to you
• Private course at your company office throughout the UK, at our training room or at an independent location, convenient to you
• Scheduled public course at one of our training venues

Whats Included

• Use of a Modern Training suite with 19 inch flat screen monitors
• 1 delegate per computer
• Lunch (When at our training venue)
• Refreshments (When at our training venue)
• Relaxed refreshment area at our training room

Course Content
Internet Access and HTML

• Overview
• Electronic mail
• File Transfer
• The world wide web

Getting Started

• HTML reference
• Viewing and managing HTML code
• Previewing in a browser
• Code and design
• Code (HTML)
• Design view
• Viewing a page
• Toolbar
• The Dreamweaver environment: Status bar, panel groups, insert bar, properties inspector, document
• How to start Dreamweaver

Creating a WebSite

• Accepted conventions
• Defining a new website

Building a Website

• Moving files and folders
• Creating new folders
• Viewing files and folders
• Working with the site manager

Creating A Basic Web Page

• Saving web pages
• Undoing mistakes
• Page titles
• Horizontal lines
• Paragraph and list formats
• Logical character styles
• HTML text formatting
• Handling text within a Dreamweaver page

Hyperlinks

• Creating and using an image map
• Using images as links
• Linking to non HTML resources
• Linking to pages that do not yet exist
• Linking to other files
• Anchors
• Email address
• Creating and editing hyperlinks
• Links within a site
• What are hyperlinks and why do I need them?

Importing other Documents into your Website

• Importing a file into the web structure
• Using windows cut, copy and paste commands
• Inserting a file directly onto a page

Dealing with Images in Dreamweaver

• Rollover images
• Download times
• Image title
• Image size
• Border
• Image spacing
• Alignment
• Image properties
• Editing the properties of an image
• Inserting images
• Graphic file types
• Images

Managing and uploading a Website

• Uploading changed files
• Uploading the entire site
• Uploading a site
• Setting the FTP information

Defining Head Elements

• Optimising for search engines
• Editing meta tags
• Defining head elements

Tables in Web Pages

• Nested tables
• Use of tables for page alignment
• Changing the properties of a table and an individual cell
• Deleting a table
• Adjusting height and width
• Merging and splitting cells
• Adjusting table properties
• Deleting columns and rows
• Adding columns and rows
• Editing a table
• Entering data in a table
• Cell borders, cell padding and cell spacing.
• Table width
• Creating tables

Templates

• Applying a template to a page that already exists
• Re-opening a template
• Editing a template
• Templates containing repeating regions
• Using a template
• Adding an editable region
• Creating a template

Style Sheets

• Page background
• Page properties
• Applying style sheets to multiple pages
• Defining style sheets