Pre-requisites: This Dreamweaver Design course provides students with no prior Dreamweaver experience the knowledge and hands-on practice they need to create DW based sites. All participants should be Windows or Mac literate and competent with using a mouse.

Duration: 2-Day
Start & Finish Times: 10am to 5pm

Who should attend: This Macromedia/Adobe designed curriculum introduces you to Dreamweaver and is ideal for developers and designers who are required to produce either HTML pages or a complete Website. Dreamweaver allows non-HTML coders to produce HTML pages and sites quickly and easily.

Overview of Content

Getting Started Introducing Dreamweaver. Learning the interface. Defining a local site. Creating a website.

Adding Content to a Site Adding content. Controlling document structure. Making lists. Adding horizontal rules. Adding special characters.

Formatting with Cascading Style Sheets Formatting text. Introducing cascading style sheets. Creating styles. Exporting CSS rule definitions. Creating class styles. Attaching external style sheets. Creating advanced styles. Creating a new external style sheet. Displaying styles. Understanding cascading order and inheritance of styles. Creating internal styles with the Property inspector.

Working with Graphics Using graphics on web pages. Placing graphics on the page. Modifying image properties. Editing images. Doing roundtrip editing with Fireworks. Customizing the Insert bar. Adding Flash content. Adding Flash Video.

Navigating Your Site Understanding site navigation. Linking to files in your site. Linking to sites. Linking to named anchors. Adding e-mail links. Linking from images. Creating a jump menu.

Designing Page Layouts with CSS Understanding page layout. Using layers for layout. Adding CSS to layers. Using absolute and relative positioning. Designing with DIVs. Designing navigation links with CSS. Importing tabular data. Using table layout view.

Using Libraries and Templates Using site library items. Creating site templates. Defining editable regions. Using templates. Applying a template to an existing page. Modifying templates.

Creating Forms Understanding forms. Processing a form. Setting focus in a form. Validating a form.

Testing, Maintaining, and Uploading Testing your site. Maintaining your files and folders. Connecting to a remote site. Synchronizing files

Public Course Cost. £520.00

Reward Price. £NA

Company Room Rates & Work Shops – Please call for quote Associated courses: HTML, Flash, Action Script; Photoshop; Illustrator