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Macromedia Dreamweaver 8: Website Development
3 Day Course - $1,195 Schedule and Locations

Description

Macromedia Dreamweaver 8: Website Development provides web designers with the knowledge and hands-on practice they need to build and manage professional websites using Dreamweaver 8.

Audience

This course is for people new to web design and development and want to use Dreamweaver 8 to build intuitive, attractive and accessible websites.

 

Unit 1: Introducing the Course

  • Understanding the course format
  • Reviewing the course objectives and prerequisites
  • Reviewing the course format
  • Outlining at the course content
  • Understanding static page architecture

Unit 2:  Getting Started

  • Introducing Dreamweaver 8
  • Learning the interface
  • Defining a local site
  • Creating a website

Unit 3:  Adding Content to a Site       

  • Adding content
  • Controlling document structure
  • Making lists
  • Adding horizontal rules
  • Adding special characters

Unit 4: 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

Unit 5: 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

Unit 6: 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

Unit 7:  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
  • Importing tabular data
  • Using table layout view

Unit 8:  Using Libraries and Templates

  • Using site library items
  • Creating site templates
  • Defining editable regions
  • Using templates
  • Applying a template to an existing page
  • Modifying templates

Unit 9: Creating Forms

  • Understanding forms
  • Processing a form
  • Setting focus in a form
  • Validating a form

Unit 10: Testing, Maintaining, and Uploading

  • Testing your site
  • Maintaining your files and folders
  • Connecting to a remote site
  • Synchronizing files

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