Intro to Macromedia Dreamweaver 8.

Overview

Macromedia Dreamweaver is the class leading web editor for those who need to build and manage professional websites. The course is very closely based on the authorised Macromedia course which I have been teaching for many years, and has been designed to enable you to quickly master the essentials of Dreamweaver to produce and maintain professional websites.

This three-day course includes understanding the development process, creating and laying out a new site, adding content, understanding and authoring style sheets (CSS), adding and editing graphics, building navigation and creating jump menus, designing web forms, and publishing, testing and maintaining your site. This course .

If you are interested in producing dynamic sites you should attend this course follow by the Macromedia Dreamweaver MX: Dynamic Application Development course.

The course is available on both Mac and PC systems.

Required skills and experience.

1. Conceptual knowledge of web pages.
2. Be able to use a web browser.
3. A good working knowledge of either the Windows or Mac operating systems.

Duration

3 Days.

Standard course price

£650 pp excluding VAT

For more information on pricing please go to my rates page.

Introducing Dreamweaver

• Course objectives
• Static page architecture

Getting started

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

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

Laying out 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 page
• Defining editable regions Modifying templates

Creating web forms

• Creating a form
• Form processing
• Setting focus on a form with 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