Adobe Dreamweaver (Intermediate) - 1 day

Intermediate Dreamweaver course

Intermediate Adobe Dreamweaver course in Birmingham, Solihull, Midlands areas, and around the UK.

This Dreamweaver course covers intermediate Dreamweaver techniques needed to work efficiently and create manageable web site designs using Dreamweaver Templates and CSS, designing basic feedback forms, and managing your web site and checking files.

Dreamweaver (Intermediate)

Level: intermediate

Software: Adobe Dreamweaver CS5, CS4 or CS3

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.

Intermediate Dreamweaver course - 1 day course

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

Layers
Basic Layer use and functions:
Changing size, position, visibility, stacking order, etc.
Layer control: changing visibility on a mouseover event

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

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