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Course Title:   Dreamweaver - Website Development

This three day course includes understanding the development process, adding content to an existing site, understanding the power of style sheets (CSS), working with buttons and rollovers, creating jump menus and publishing, testing and maintaining your site. This course will provide you with the expertise to produce and maintain innovative, professional websites using Dreamweaver.

Audience

This extremely popular course is the Adobe authorised introductory course for new users of Dreamweaver who wish to build professional websites.

Description

On Completion
Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:

Define a web site
Build pages from scratch.
Design a template and use libraries.
Format and layout a page using tables and CSS.
Incorporate text, graphics and flash.
Build a form.
Create navigation between pages and websites.
Manage and maintain their website.
Upload/Download web pages and content.
Incorporate tags, image maps and use the asset panel.

Adobe Dreamweaver is the worldwide tool of choice for those who need to design, build and manage professional websites. This course has been specifically designed to enable you to master the essentials of Dreamweaver quickly and easily. You will cover creating, editing, publishing and updating a website as well as adding elements to existing sites and important site management issues.

This three day course includes understanding the development process, adding content to an existing site, understanding the power of style sheets (CSS), working with buttons and rollovers, creating jump menus and publishing, testing and maintaining your site. This course will provide you with the expertise to produce and maintain innovative, professional websites using Dreamweaver.

Adobe Dreamweaver Website Development Course Outline

Introducing Dreamweaver
• Course objectives
• Static page architecture

Getting started
• Introduction to Dreamweaver
• Dreamweaver interface basics
• Creating a local site
• Creating a new HTML page
• Using development views
• Previewing pages
• Setting document properties

Adding content to a site
• Adding content
• Importing text files
• Importing Word and Excel content
• Controlling document structure
• Creating lists
• Horizontal rules
• Adding special characters

Formatting text with CSS
• Formatting text
• Cascading Style Sheets
• Creating styles
• Exporting CSS rule definitions
• Creating class styles
• Creating advanced styles

External styles
• Attaching external style sheets
• Creating new external style sheets
• Displaying styles
• Cascading order and inheritance of styles
• Creating internal styles

Working with graphics
• Seamless integration with Photoshop and Fireworks
• Placing graphics on the page
• Accessibility settings
• Importing layered images
• Optimising an image
• Adding Flash content

Navigating your site
• Linking files to your site
• Adding anchors
• Adding email links
• Linking from images
• Linking from an image map
• Creating a navigation bar
• Inserting a jump menu

Using libraries and templates
• Creating library items
• Placing and editing library items
• Detaching library items
• Creating templates
• Applying a template to an existing image
• Defining editable regions
• Modifying templates

Designing pages with CSS
• Dreamweaver CSS templates
• Inserting DIV tags
• Using the rulers and guides
• Drawing layers to design your pages
• Adding CSS to a layer
• Using visual aids for DIV tags
• Attaching external style sheets
• Adding tables
• The Spry Framework for Ajax - an overview
• Importing tabular data
• The Adobe CSS Advisor website

Creating forms
• Creating a form
• Form processing
• Setting focus on a form
• Adding JavaScript
• Form validation in Dreamweaver

Testing, maintenance and uploading
• Checking accessibility, links and browser compatibility
• Using the integrated File Browser
• Connecting to a remote site
• Cloaking folders and files
• Uploading files
• Synchronising files
• Using browser compatibility check

Questions and answers

Course Title 2 Dreamweaver - Website Development Classification IT -> Design -> Design Adobe Dreamweaver Course Requirements Pre-Requisites You should have the following experience prior to taking this course: Have experience with Windows or Macintosh operating systems. Use and have knowledge of the web environment and web browsers. Have a basic understanding of document formatting programs, such as Microsoft Word. Price Notes

Course Information Location Western Cape - Cape Town Course Type Full-time Start Dates Length of Course 3 days Final Registration Date

Contact Details Name Multimedia Centre Training Phone +27 21 790 3684 Email trainingmultimediacentre.co.za