Dreamweaver - Website Development - top

Description

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

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Dreamweaver - Developing ASP Applications - top

Description

Adobe Dreamweaver CS4: Developing ASP Applications is a three day course for those who already have the Dreamweaver skills required to build static web content and who want to combine Dreamweaver and ASP to create dynamic, data-driven websites.

This popular course is designed to develop the real world practical Dreamweaver and ASP skills required to build professional, dynamic sites (if you are working with PHP - please call for a separate course outline).

The course covers setting up a site and building a simple, dynamic application. You will cover how to configure your system to pass data between pages, send and receive email, communicate with databases, collect, process, filter and display dynamic data, authenticate specific users, work with dynamic forms and build update pages. If you wish to work on your own website or project as part of the training - this course can be taken as individual tuition or as a private company course.

Adobe Dreamweaver Level 2 Course outline

Getting started
Defining a static site
Creating the contact page
Creating a new page based on an existing page
Working in design view, code view and split view
Inserting and formatting text
Inserting images from the insert bar
Creating tables
The Property Inspector and the Properties Panel

Dynamic web sites
Dynamic web site basics
Choosing a server model
Redefining the site for dynamic development
Developing with a local server
Developing with a remote server
Building a simple, dynamic application

Passing data between pages
Understanding the HTTP protocol
Retrieving data
Setting and retrieving cookies

Sending email from a web form
Introducing SMTP email service
Writing code to send emails
Introducing objects, methods, functions and properties
Creating the web form
Emailing dynamic form values
Client-side form validation

Databases on the web
A crash course on databases
Connecting the site to a database
Creating recordsets and displaying database information

Practical example: building a Tour Price calculator
Creating the pages
Building the form
Collecting, processing and displaying the data
Adding server-side form validation
Creating the conditional region
Creating and applying a custom CSS class
Dynamically populated drop-down menus
Creating filtered recordsets
Revising the calculation script with live data
Documenting your code with comments

Filtering and displaying data
Preparing the input page
Generating URLs dynamically
Preparing the output page
Populating page layouts dynamically
Adding dynamic images

Building the tour descriptions
Creating recordsets with joins
Building the descriptions
Inserting images and alt attributes
Implementing recordset paging
Passing data to other applications

Managing content with forms
Creating the admin section
Creating the form interface

Building search interfaces
Creating the Search All link
Searching by region and country
Switching SQL statements
Testing and debugging

Authenticating users
Building the registration pages
Building a log-in page
Restricting access to pages

Building update pages
Planning master-detail pages
Making the detail page updateable


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