Adobe Dreamweaver CS5 Intermediate Training

Course review:

Are you considering a career in web development?Are you on a tight budget and want to maintain and upgrade your current web site in-house?Or maybe you just want to get your own personal web project online?

Adobe Dreamweaver Intermediate is a two day course that provides web designers with the knowledge and hands-on practice they need to build and manage more advance web sites using industry standard for professional web development and design. This class moves on from the fundamentals of Dreamweaver with an emphasis on best practices and current web standards. You will learn how to use CSS techniques to create attractive, modern web layouts.

Suitable for:

This course is for people who would like to use Dreamweaver to build intuitive, attractive and accessible web sites. This class will cover design techniques as well as best practices for CSS and design standards.

Course outline:

Cascading Stylesheets (CSS)
• Strategies for working with CSS
• Accessibility issues
• Advanced CSS selectors - contextual styles
• CSS navigational elements - links, hover effects

Creating Forms
• Setting Up Forms
• Adding Form Elements
• Validating and Testing Forms

Rollovers and Navigation Bars
• Rollovers
• Adding Image States to a Navigation Bar
• Using Behaviours
• Using the Insert Navigation Bar Tool
• Flash Buttons and Text
• Create List Bared Navigation Using CSS

Defining Head Elements: Managing Keyboard Shortcuts
• Defining Head Elements
• Editing Meta Tags
• Customizing Keyboard Shortcuts

Div Tags
• Creating Divs
• Using CSS with DIV tags for page layouts
• Using CSS with DIV tags for page Styles

Advanced Design Techniques
• Advanced Layouts with CSS & DIV tags
• Building Websites to work on all browsers
• Advanced CSS styles for content & links
• Create Page from a Flat Graphic

The History panel
• The History panel
• Recording Steps
• Saving Steps to the Commands Menu

General
• Website Accessibility & W3C
• Find & Replace
• Browser compatibility