training:Courses:Dreamweaver
Dreamweaver Training Courses
"The course was really useful in helping me understand the basics of website construction, and helping me learn how to read CSS and HTML. It was also really helpful in providing web tips, resources and online help which will be vital to me in progressing my skills after the course. I feel satisfied that I will be able to go on from the course and start creating my own site."
University of Southampton.
University of Southampton.
During this comprehensive course we will provide you with the in-depth knowledge needed to enable you to perform creative and professional web design techniques whilst working on your own material.
The aim of the course is to provide you with the ability to produce accurate, commercial standard websites with ease. The course has a strong emphasis on design, accessibility and search engine optimisation techniques whilst giving you a clear understanding of HTML syntax and the correct usage of CSS (Cascading Style Sheets). You will also learn valuable real world hits and tips garnered from over 12 years experience in the web design and development field.
CSS layout (Cascading Style Sheets) is a means of separating the content of a document from the style and layout of that document, making the HTML far cleaner. This is useful for a number of reasons: firstly, you can change the layout of the whole CSS website by altering only one file (the .css document) and you have a much greater control over the design. Secondly, CSS websites are far more search engine friendly and thirdly, you can make different CSS versions of the same page for different HTML readers i.e. PDA's, Mobile Phones, Web TV, Braille readers. The course explores all of these advantages.
This course assumes no prior knowledge of HTML, CSS or Dreamweaver and we will provide you with the advanced training that will help you become an excellent web designer.
"I feel pretty confident that I can now go off and build a decent website - a giant step from coming in on Monday knowing nothing whatsoever. Thank you!"
Oil Technics Ltd.
Duration: 3 days.Oil Technics Ltd.
Prerequisites: This course is for beginners i.e. designers, developers and those new to Dreamweaver who want to learn the interface and how to use features in a detailed and efficient manner. To gain the most from this class, students should be familiar with Windows and with the web and its terminology.
Why Take This Course? This course provides web designers with the knowledge and hands-on practice they need to build and manage professional web sites. The course is for people who are new to web design and development and want to use Dreamweaver to build intuitive, attractive, accessible and search engine frendly web sites.
"Excellent! These three days taught me everything I need to know to take my development to the next level and beyond." Minerva Computers.
COURSE CONTENT
Introducing Dreamweaver
- 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
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 DIV's
- Designing navigation links with CSS
- Importing tabular data
- Using table layout view
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
Creating Forms
- Understanding forms
- Processing a form
- Setting focus in a form
- Validating a form
Testing, Maintenance, and Uploading
- Testing your site
- Maintaining your files and folders
- Connecting to a remote site
- Synchronizing files