Adobe Dreamweaver (Beginners and Intermediate) - 2 Days - on-Site Training

Dreamweaver course - beginners and intermediate

Two day beginners and intermediate Macromedia Dreamweaver course or Adobe Dreamweaver courses in Birmingham, Solihull and Midlands areas and around the UK.

This Macromedia Dreamweaver course or Adobe Dreamweaver course will cover the basics of Dreamweaver to how to design and build a small web site. The course also includes intermediate Dreamweaver techniques needed to work efficiently and create manageable web site designs using Dreamweaver Templates, CSS, and forms, as well as managing your web site and checking files.

Level: beginners and intermediate

Software: Adobe Dreamweaver CS4 or CS3, Macromedia Dreamweaver 8

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.

Beginners and intermediate Dreamweaver course - 2 day course

Day 1

Beginners Introduction to Dreamweaver

• Introduction to the tools and features of Dreamweaver
• The principles of web design, effective design of navigation and links and the basics of accessibility.
• How to organise the files in your website
• File management and file types
• Designing a simple web page
• Setting a background colour or background image for the page
• Setting default text colours and active link colours
• Giving the page a title
• Using tables to layout a page
• % with and pixel width tables
• Setting table properties such as borders, background colours and cell padding
• Adding text
• Typing directly into the page or importing text
• Formatting text with CSS styles
• (or formatting text with font tags if you need this for HTML emails or old HTML documents)
• Adding images and graphics
• File naming, files sizes and the correct file types
• Setting image properties such as size, border and Alt tags
• Using behaviours to create mouseovers effects on graphical buttons
• Create image maps and hotspots
• Making links to other pages and documents
• Adding an email link
• Using CSS to format link colour and hover colour for text links
• Using Library items to make areas of the page consistent on all pages (e.g. for navigation)
• Basic HTML recognition and editing
• Design a simple page design and then create a 3 or 4 page website and link those pages together.

Day 2

Intermediate Dreamweaver

• Tables
• Designing a page with scaling (% width) tables
• Complex tables and nested tables
• Behaviours
• Use Dreamweaver behaviours to add javascript functions (mouseover, pop up window, and others)
• Image rollovers (mouseovers), including disjointed rollovers, where moving your mouse over a button causes an image or graphic to change on a different part of the page.
• Dreamweaver Templates
• Creating and editing templates
• Defining editable areas on the page and setting properties for those areas
• Creating pages based on a template, editing and updating them
• Adding content to pages based on a template
• If time is available, you may look at the use of nested Templates for multi-sectioned sites
• Forms
• Creating a simple feedback or enquiry form
• How you can process the information in the form, including sending to an email
• Validating the form (checking that certain fields are filled in with the correct information)
• CSS (Cascading Style Sheets)
• Use CSS to generate changes to link text colour when the mouse moves over a hyperlink
• Using styles with templates
• Using CSS to set and control a background image
• Creating indented text with CSS Styles
• Creating a background colour block under a paragraph of text
• Using CSS to format table borders, background colours and padding
• Editing CSS code
• Various
• Head content and Meta tags
• Anchor tags to add links to another part of the same page (for long pages of text)
• Using Assets
• Using Find and Replace to change selected content or HTML code throughout the page
• Testing & Site Management
• Testing & bug fixing your web pages
• Checking for broken links in your site
• Using the site manager in Dreamweaver to manage and update your files
• Automatically changing multiple links to the same page
• How to upload your site to your server

On-site Adobe Dreamweaver courses or Macromedia Dreamweaver courses are available in Birmingham and Midlands areas including Redditch, Bromsgrove, Worcester and Solihull, and with trainers around the UK.