Macromedia Dreamweaver 8 Essential Training is a programme designed for beginning to intermediate Dreamweaver users who want to quickly get up to speed on the latest version of Macromedia's incredibly popular Web development application. This tutorial begins by covering basic Web authoring skills like working with text and images, adding links, modifying page properties, and managing your site. From there you'll move on to more advanced topics like using Dreamweaver 8's new unified CSS style panel, creating layouts with layers, and embedding audio and video files into your pages. This tutorial shows you everything you need to know to go from creating your first page to publishing an entire site on the Web.
Course Title: Macromedia Dreamweaver 8 Essential Training
Duration: 11 hours of 1 hourly lessons, weekly, bi-weekly or monthly
Cost: £35 per lesson, per hour
Pre-requisites: None - Basic keyboard and PC skills are part of the course.
Please note all our computer courses are bespoke. Although it states the course duration times below, please remember this is an indication only.
You may choose to take as few a number or many lessons, covering options from the catergories as listed below. The duration of each course is a guide only.
Course contents
1. Introduction and Background
HTML vs. XHTML
What is CSS?
What is DHTML?
What is JavaScript?
File naming conventions
What is an index page?2. Interface
Setting up your workspace
The Start page
Windows and Mac differences
The Insert bar
The Properties Inspector
The Document toolbar
The Document window
Panel and panel groups
Saving workspace layouts
How to define your browser of choice3. Site Control
Defining a site
File and folder management
Understanding path structure
Adding content to the site
Creating a site map4. Document Basics
Creating a site from nothing
Creating and saving a new document
About DOCTYPEs
Assets panel
Inserting images
Inserting text
Aligning text and images
Page properties
Using meta tags5. Linking
Link basics
Linking with Point to File
Linking to new source files
External links
Link colors
Creating email links
Named anchors
Image maps6. Typography
Font vs. CSS
HTML format preferences
Text size
Setting font faces
Text color
Paragraph formatting
Formatting text in tables
Working with Flash text7. CSS Essentials
About CSS
CSS preferences
Redefining HTML tags
Class styles
Link styles
Setting margins and borders
Exporting and linking to external style sheets8. Tables
What is a table?
Selecting table regions
Pixel-based tables
Percentage-based tables
Nesting tables
Formatting tables
Inserting tabular data
CSS table borders
Creating tables with rounded corners9. Layout
Tracing images and layers
Adding layers
Modifying layers
Converting layers to tables
Layout mode10. Rollovers
About rollovers
Creating a simple rollover
Creating pointer rollovers
Creating multiple-event rollovers
Creating Flash buttons
Inserting a navigation bar11. XHTML
The Code toolbar
The Quick Tag Editor
Using the quick tag editor and tag chooser
Adding XHTML using a code snippet
Cleaning up XHTML
Cleaning up HTML from Microsoft Word12. Forms
About forms
Adding text fields
Adding a pop-up menu
Adding checkboxes
Adding radio buttons
Adding submit and reset buttons
Styling form elements with CSS
Creating a jump menu13. Essential Behaviors
Opening a new browser window
Validating text fields
Creating a pop-up message
Extending Dreamweaver14. Fireworks Integration
External image editor preferences
Editing images with built-in Fireworks 8 tools
Inserting Fireworks HTML
Adding a Dreamweaver 8 pop-up menu behavior15. Templates and Library Items
Templates in action
Creating a new template
Modifying a template
Adding repeating regions
Library items16. Automation
Using the History panel
Saving History Steps as Commands
Using Find and Replace
Creating a Web photo album
Getting more Commands17. Accessibility
W3C accessibility guides
Accessibility preferences
Inserting accessible images
Inserting accessible tables
Inserting accessible forms18. Inserting Media Objects
About media objects
Linking to media objects
Embedding audio and video files
Setting parameters
Creating a click-to-play movie
Inserting Flash content
Inserting Flash Video19. Getting it Online
Getting site reports
Checking links sitewide
Signing up with Tripod
Entering remote info
Publishing your site
Updating and publishing pages
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