Dreamweaver CS5: Advanced (for Designers)

Delivery method
Classroom based, maximum 5 delegates

Course description
[b]Web basics recap and what's new in CS5[/b]
• Review of basic server client model and the important
areas for web designers
• The roles of HTML, CSS and Behaviours (javascript)
• Web standards and different DOCTYPE specifications
• Overview and exploration of different browsers
• The importance of accessibility requirements
• Changes in Dreamweavers interface and workspaces
• New features and depreciated features

[b]DW site set up[/b]
• Creating a local site - changes in site set up for CS5
• Adding files and assets to the site
• Understanding the remote server dialogue
Setting up, cleaning and structuring a web page
• New document set up in DW preferences
• Creating new web pages
• Adding meta data (keywords and descriptions)
• Adding character encoding and declaring natural page
language
• Importing from text files and using paste special
• Importing tabular data and other content from files
• Cleaning and converting word HTML and older HTML
• Using the Edit Replace dialogue in DW

[b]CSS basics recap[/b]
• Understanding the cascade
• Understanding the properties of a style sheet
• Review of different CSS properties and suitable values
• Understanding different selectors

[b]Working with CSS in Dreamweaver[/b]
• Review of the CSS panel
• Creating new style sheets and rules
• Exporting CSS rule definitions and attaching external
style sheets
• Understanding the media property
• Styling text with CSS
• About other media and creating a print style sheet

[b]Understanding layout basics[/b]
• Div's and span's
• The CSS box model
• Layout options and concepts
• Floats, absolute, relative and fixed positioning

[b]More advanced graphics work[/b]
• Overview of current image file formats and options
• Image alt and longdesc options
• Creating an image map
• Using CSS to add background images
• Creating transparency in web pages with images
• Using images for text and making a CSS image swap

Suitable for
An Adobe authorised course for designers familiar with the essentials of Dreamweaver who need to master Dreamweaver more advanced features.

Requirements
You should have attended the Introduction to Adobe Dreamweaver course at Media Training or have an equivalent working knowledge.