Background

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

If you wish to build database-driven websites using Dreamweaver, you should attend this course followed by the Macromedia Dreamweaver MX: Dynamic Application Development course.

Macromedia Dreamweaver is a benchmark tool for those who need to 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, working with buttons and rollovers, creating jump menus and publishing and testing and maintaining your site. This course will provide you with the expertise to produce and maintain innovative, professional websites using Dreamweaver.

 

Course Outline

INTRODUCTION

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
Adding special characters
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 with the Property Inspector

WORKING WITH GRAPHICS
Placing graphics on the page
Accessibility settings
Modifying image properties
Image editing
Optimising an image
Adding Flash movies

NAVIGATING YOUR SITE
Linking files to your site
Adding anchors
Adding e-mail links
Linking from images
Linking from an image map
Creating a navigation bar
Creating a jump menu

DESIGNING PAGES WITH CSS
Inserting DIV tags
Using the rules 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
Importing tabular data

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

CREATING FORMS
Creating a form
Form processing
Setting focus on a form
Adding Javascript

TESTING, MAINTENANCE AND UPLOADING
Checking accessibility, links and
browser compatibility
Maintaining files
Using the integrated File Browser
Connecting to a remote site
Cloaking folders and files
Uploading files
Synchronising files

QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS