Adobe Dreamweaver Introduction

Adobe Dreamweaver Introduction

Cost: £495 per delegate
Duration: 2 days

The course will provides a firm foundation in HTML and its assistant technology CSS. The first section of the course will teach students how web pages are created using simple text editors. In the second section of the course, once students will have become familiarised with HTML and CSS, they will move on to using Adobe's Dreamweaver to aid the creation of a site. Students will also be taught how to optimise images for the Web and how to upload their files to a server using FTP.

Understand HTML and it's assistant technologies
Planning your site
Designing your site with templates
Optimise Images for the Web
Uploading and maintaining your site

Course Outline
Day 1
Example
AM

The Internet, the World Wide Web and HTML
The W3C & Web Standards
Static vs dynamic pages
History and development of HTML
Current versions of HTML
What makes up a web site and where it exists

Importing an existing site
Exploring the Dreamweaver interface
Setting Dreamweaver's preferences for better accessibility
Adding new pages
File naming conventions
Link management
Creating folders
Moving, renaming and deleting files
Understanding directory paths

Text
Structuring text with HTML
Headings
Paragraphs
Lists
Strong (bold) & Emphasis (italic)
Importing Word and Excel
Spell checking
Using special characters (symbols)

Hyperlinks
Creating Links to other sites
Creating Links between your pages
Creating internal links within a single page
Links to other documents (PDFs, .docs, archive files etc )
Pros and Cons of Email links

Day 2
AM

Creating a new site
Creating a root folder
Managing a new site with Dreamweaver

Tables
Importing tablular data
Understanding table markup
Editing table properties
Relative and absolute widths
Aligning contents within cells
Adding and deleting rows and columns
Using table headers
Sorting tables
Using CSS with tables
Using tables in layouts
Merging table cells
Centering tables
Nesting tables

Templates
Understanding templates
Creating templates
Creating templates from an existing page
Creating editable regions
Updating templates
Understanding template markup
Applying templates to existing non-templated pages

PM
Workshop: A two hour exercise in which you will employ your
new skills to create a functioning website from scratch.
Preparing for publication
Meta tags
Search engines
Keywords
Descriptions
Titles and Headings
Reciprocal links
Submitting your site to top search engines.
Testing your site
Checking for broken links
Publishing your site
Uploading to a server
On a local network
Using Dreamweaver FTP
Viewing remote files
Updating files
Synchonising Files
Roundup & Further Questions