Dreamweaver Level 2
Course
Inhouse
Description
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Type
Course
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Methodology
Inhouse
Dreamweaver Level 2 is designed for web designers who want to use Dreamweaver's advanced features to create complex websites efficiently. Delegates will work with advanced website creation features available in Dreamweaver, including libraries and behaviours. Delegates will also use many of the more advanced features available within the HTML 4 standard including style sheets
About this course
To ensure your success, we recommend you first take the Dreamweaver Level 1 course or have equivalent knowledge. To view Dreamweaver level 1 content , please see our Dreamweaver Level 1 course outline.
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Course programme
Dreamweaver Level 2 is designed for web designers who want to use Dreamweaver's advanced features to create complex websites efficiently. Delegates will work with advanced website creation features available in Dreamweaver, including libraries and behaviours. Delegates will also use many of the more advanced features available within the HTML 4 standard including style sheets and layers.
Prerequisites
- To ensure your success, we recommend you first take the Dreamweaver Level 1 course or have equivalent knowledge. To view Dreamweaver level 1 content , please see our Dreamweaver Level 1 course outline.
Objectives
- Delegates will be able to :
- Create a frame based site, and demonstrate the advantages and disadvantages of frames.
- Create dynamic user-interface elements, including simple rollovers and complex navigation bars.
- Use libraries to manage repeating site elements.
- Add Element to your website that will help make it visible to search engines.
- Create and manage layers, as well as combine layers with behaviours to provide additional visual feedback for a viewer navigating a site.
- Use the History panel to simplify repetitive tasks both within a single document and with other documents in a site.
- Target page content to specific browsers and versions.
- Add a form to your web page to aid collection of data and use client based form verification techniques.
- Dreamweaver Level 3
- Fireworks Level 2 (Fireworks is used to add graphics (pictures, titles etc) to websites in Dreamweaver)
- Flash Level 2 (Flash is used to add graphics and movies to websites in Dreamweaver)
- Bespoke course (a course written to your specific needs) at your company office throughout the UK, at our training venue or at an independent location, convenient to you
- Private course at your company office throughout the UK, at our training room or at an independent location, convenient to you
- Scheduled public course at one of our training venues
- 1 delegate per computer
- 12 Months telephone and email support
- Comprehensive colour course manual and exercises
- Use of a Modern Training suite with 19 inch flat screen monitors
- Lunch (When at our training venue)
- Refreshments (When at our training venue)
- Relaxed refreshment area at our training room
Website Frames
- Framesets
- Creating a website with frames
- Creating a number of frames in one step
- Inserting frames
- Saving the frameset and the frames
- The frames palette
- Editing pages within a frame
- Dealing with old browsers
- Frame properties
- Editing the properties for a frameset
- Frame link destinations
- Setting the destination frame for one hyperlink
- Manipulating frames after site creation
- Creating and using a server side includes
- Requirements for an SSI to work
- Updating website quickly using SSI's
- Rollovers
- Adding image states to a navigation bar using behaviours
- Using the insert navigation bar tool
- Flash buttons and text
- Adding a video to a web page
- Embedding a video in a web page
- Creating a library
- Modifying library items within the library panel
- Creating layers
- Using the layers panel
- Layer styles
- Layers and behaviours
- Hiding and viewing layers
- Pop up menus
- Using layers and cascading styles to control web page layout
- Advantages of CSS positioning over tables
- Advantage of tables over CSS positioning
- Setting up forms
- Adding form elements
- Smartening up your forms using CLASS styles
- Validating and testing Forms
- Making your form work
- The history panel
- Recording steps
- Saving steps to the commands menu
- Adding a spry component
- Configuring the accordian component
- Ensuring all the relevant files are uploaded
- Browser compatibility
- Cleaning up word HTML
- Browser checking
- Coding tools
- The quick gallery creation tool (requires Fireworks)
- Adding macromedia extensions
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