Adobe Creative Suite 3 Web Design Introduction - 3 days

Adobe Creative Suite Web Design Introduction

Beginners introduction to web design, web graphics and animation with Adobe Creative Suite.
Adobe Dreamweaver
Adobe Fireworks and/or Adobe Photoshop
Adobe Flash
3 day course

3 day beginners course for Adobe Creative Suite 3, Adobe Creative Suite 4, Adobe Creative Suite 5 (Web edition or Design Premium edition). The course will give an overview of the main features of each program and techniques used in web site design.

Introduction to designing a small web site with Adobe Dreamweaver.
Designing buttons and web graphics, and resizing and optimising photographs with Fireworks and/or Photoshop.
Creating simple animation and banner ads in Fireworks.
Creating simple animation and a small presentation with Flash.

Customised courses and shorter or longer courses are available if required.

Level: beginners

Software: Adobe Creative Suite 3, Adobe Creative Suite 4, Adobe Creative Suite 5:

Web Page Design: Adobe Dreamweaver
Web Graphics and images: Adobe Fireworks and/or Adobe Photoshop

Animation and Interactive Designs: Adobe Flash
Numbers: One to one or small groups of up to 4 trainees.
Trainees in a group should have the same skill level and the same requirements.

Day 1 - Adobe Dreamweaver
Introduction to the tools and features of Dreamweaver
How to organise the files in your web site
Designing a simple web page
Using tables to layout a page
Adding images and text
Formatting text with CSS
Using behaviours to create mouseovers buttons
Image maps and creating hotspots
Making links to other web pages and documents
Adding an e-mail link
File management and file types
Basic HTML editing and code recognition
Build a small web site or 3 - 5 pages

* optional - if time is available:
Creating a simple page template or using library items for a navigation bar may be covered, as well as the areas above.

Day 2 - Adobe Fireworks and / or Adobe Photoshop
Introduction to the tools and features of Fireworks
Using the tools and setting tool options
Using floating palettes including Colour, Fill, Stroke, Layers and Frames
Vector graphics & creating artwork
Text and text formatting
Adding drop shadows and other effects to text and artwork
Bitmap images and basic image editing
Image resizing and colour correction
Designing web page buttons
Creating a simple banner or header design with images/logo and text
Creating a simple animation (FW)
Image optimisation and saving images for web sites
File formats - gif and jpg
Saving a graphic with areas of transparency

* some areas can only be fully covered in Fireworks (FW) and not in Photoshop.

Day 3 - Adobe Flash
Introduction to the main tools and features of Flash
Painting and drawing tools, and using colours
Creating and formatting text
Importings and using photographs
Using the timeline
Colour changing or fading objects over time
Shape changing (morphing)
Animating movement of shapes, images or text
Adding basic interactivity - such as a link to a web site
Adding sound effects
Creating an animated banner or similar design
Exporting your flash animation ready to place into a web page

Further training is available if required.

Adobe Creative Suite (web) training is available on-site at your office, with trainers around the UK.