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Adobe Dreamweaver CS5 Essentials Course
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Overview
Adobe Dreamweaver CS5 is a leading web development and site management application. This course is designed utilise the core features of Dreamweaver to enable users to plan, create, edit, and publish professional looking web pages. It integrates perfectly with Adobe Flash and Photoshop to make the creation of web sites even easier.
Audience
Users new to the product who need to create or manage web sites on a regular basis.
Course Objectives
At the end of this course, delegates will be able to create web sites using a variety of Dreamweaver’s in-built design tools. You will use tables, graphics and text to organise your pages and then upload them to the web.
Prerequisites
No prior knowledge of Dreamweaver is assumed however a good knowledge of Microsoft Word and basic HTML knowledge would be beneficial.
Course Contents (2 days)
- How the Web Works
- The Anatomy of a Web Site
- Your target audience
- Accessibility & your responsibilities
- Introducing Dreamweaver
- Workspace
- Learning the interface
- HTML Code
- Understanding HTML code
- Creating a site folder
- Creating a Site Definition
- Working with your site files
- Page Creation
- Create a new HTML page
- Add and format text content
- Insert graphics and images
- Test and preview the page
- Overview of CSS
- Styling text with CSS
- Creating an internal style sheet
- Creating an external style sheet
- Attaching style sheets to multiple pages
- Creating and managing multiple Style Sheets
- Navigating your site
- Understanding site navigation
- Creating internal site links
- Creating external links
- Creating email links
- Creating page anchor links
- Creating image links
- Designing navigation links with CSS
- Page Layout with CSS
- Using absolute and relative positioning
- Designing with DIVs (Divisions)
- Working with Tables
- Merging / splitting cells
- Importing Tabular data
- Styling Tables and table data
- Working with Assets
- Using the Assets Pallet
- Overview of web image creation
- Optimising and adding images
- Adding Flash content
- Adding Video content
- Templates and Libraries
- Overview of templates
- Creating and managing Templates
- Defining Editable regions
- Applying templates
- Modify and update templates
- Create a site library
- Modify and update library items
- Adding Interactive Content
- Overview of JavaScript Behaviours
- Apply and edit JavaScript Behaviours
- Overview of the Spry framework
- Apply Spry Objects
- Site Testing, Maintenance and Uploading
- Page Validation
- Find and replace
- Synchronising Local and Remote sites
- Testing your site
- Connecting your site to the Internet
- Uploading & maintaining your site