Adobe Dreamweaver CS5 Introduction

Audience

This course is for delegates wishing to gain a good introduction up to intermediary knowledge of Adobe's website design product, Dreamweaver CS5.

Prerequisites

This course is for delegates new to web design and development and want to use Dreamweaver CS5 to build intuitive, attractive and accessible web sites.

Duration

3 days. Hands on.

Course Objectives

Delegates will gain a good understanding of the use and implementation of Adobe's Dreamweaver website design product. This course applies to DreamWeaver CS5, but can be delivered at previous releases if required.

Course Content

Introducing the Course
•Understanding the course
•Reviewing the course objectives and prerequisites
•Reviewing the course format
•Outlining the course content
•Understanding static page architecture
Getting Started
•Introducing Dreamweaver
•Learning the interface
•Defining a local site
•Creating a website
•CSS Template Designs
Adding Content to a Site
•Adding content
•Controlling document structure
•Making lists
•Adding horizontal rules
•Adding special characters
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
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
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
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
Spry AJAX Components
•Introduction to Spry widgets
•Spry Effects
Creating Forms
•Understanding forms
•Processing a form
•Form Validation with Spry Framework.
Testing, Maintenance, and Uploading
•Testing your site
•Connecting to a remote site