Upgrade to Adobe CS5 for web design professionals

Delivery method
Classroom based, maximum 5 delegates

Course description

DAY ONE
Digital imaging workflow changes in CS5

• Working with Mini Bridge
• Testing your web pages using Adobe BrowserLab
• Using CS Live (free for one year)

Adobe Dreamweaver CS5: new features

• Overview of new features
• Using CSS starter pages
• Improved CSS inspection tools
• Using CSS Inspect Mode
• Setting up workspace settings
• Visualising padding and margins
• Selecting a specific element on a page
• Identifying and editing CSS that formats dynamically generated page content

Working in Live View

• Using Live Navigation

Working with PHP

• The code hints feature

Content Management System support

• Creating and editing blogs in Dreamweaver
• Support for Drupal
• Support for WordPress
• Support for Joomla!
• Site specific code hints

Adobe Fireworks CS5: new features

• Productivity improvements
• Interface enhancements
• New Fireworks document templates
• Creating tables using Table Layout
• The Compound Shape tool
• Exporting to Flash and Flash Catalyst

Adobe Photoshop CS5: new features

• Productivity improvements and GUI features
• Crop and Straighten options
• Keyboard shortcut changes
• Colour Picker enhancements
• Using Content Aware Fill
• Using the Spot Healing Brush tool and Content Aware Fill

Suitable for
A two day Adobe authorised course covering the powerful new features in Dreamweaver CS5, Flash CS5 and Photoshop CS5 / Fireworks CS5. This course is for those who have experience using these applications in CS4 or CS3.

Requirements
You should have experience of using Dreamweaver, Flash and Photoshop or Fireworks CS3 or CS4.