Dreamweaver Intro

Dreamweaver CS5 CS6 CC - Intro

This is a 2 Day Introduction to Dreamweaver CS5 CS6 CC course. Dreamweaver is the industry standard for visual web development.

It provides unrivalled facilities for the creation of sophisticated pages, while offering a user-friendly interface and excellent productivity tools.

The purpose of the program is to make it easy to create a website without having to know how to code with HTML.

PREREQUISITES

No previous experience of Dreamweaver is required.

BENEFITS

Students will create web sites that include frame-based pages, tables, graphics, and links.

By the end of the course, students will have created an entire website in Dreamweaver and learn to upload the site to a server

COURSE CONTENT 

GETTING STARTED

• Introducing Dreamweaver • Learning the interface • Defining a local site • Creating a website • CSS Template Designs

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

SPRY AJAX COMPONENTS

• Introduction to Spry widgets • Spry Effects

CREATING FORMS 

• Understanding forms • Processing a form • Form Validation with Spry Framework.

TESTING, MAINTENANCE, AND UPLOADING

• Testing your site • Connecting to a remote site