Dreamweaver 101 Yellow Belt

Who is this course for?

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

Objectives

In this course, you will examine the basics of Dreamweaver with a focus on best practices and design. You will learn,

Adobe Dreamweaver interface basics
Creating a website
Controlling document structure
Intro to Cascading Style Sheets
Adding graphics
Building Successful Site Navigation
Designing Pages with CSS
Fireworks/Dreamweaver integration
Creating Templates and Site Maintenance

Prerequisites

To gain the most from this class, students should be familiar with the web and its terminology.

Benefits

Website design can be confusing to get started with. But with our Adobe Certified Instructor led class we will show you how Adobe Dreamweaver can make it simple. This course provides web designers with the knowledge and hands-on practice they need to build and manage professional web sites using Dreamweaver.

Understanding the Welcome screen

Able to Arrange panels
Able to Manage the workspace
Understanding the Application toolbar
Understanding the Document toolbar
Knowledge of the Property inspector
Knowledge of using the Insert panel

Creating:

Able to Define a new Site
Able to Creating Local Root Folders
Understanding the basics of site structure
Understanding file naming conventions
Able to Manage files and folders

Testing:

Understand Saving and Testing in a Browser
Knowledge of using Live View
Able to Check Links Site wide
Able to Change Links Site wide
Able to edit content with the Search Panel
Exploring Results and what to do about them
Exploring the Reference Panel

Uploading:

Knowledge of uploading a Site
Knowledge of Refreshing a Site
Able to Connect to a Remote Server

Pages:

Able to Create and Add pages
Able to Delete Pages and Folders
Able to Create Framesets
Knowledge of Inserting Elements;
Images
Tables
Div Tags
Understand Modifying Tables
Able to add content to Tables
Able to Create Templates
Knowledge of Drawing AP Elements
Understand Automation;
Using site library items
Creating site templates
Defining repeating & editable regions
Using templates
Applying a template to an existing page
Modifying templates

Adding Navigation:

Understanding site navigation
Able to Link to files in your site
Able to Link to sites
Able to Link to named anchors
Able to add email links
Able to add Links with images
Able to Create a jump menu

Interactive Elements:

Able to Create and Modify Tabbed Sprys
Able to Create and Modify Accordion Sprys
Able to Create and Modify Collapsable Sprys
Able to Create and Modify Menu Bar Sprys
Able to Creating Rollovers
Able to Adding Javascript Effects and Behaviors

Adding Media:

Knowledge of using graphics on web pages
Able to place graphics on the page
Understand modifying image properties
Understand Editing images
Able to roundtrip edit with Fireworks/Photoshop
Understand adding Flash content
Understand adding Flash Video

Creating Forms:

Understanding forms
Knowledge of Processing a form
Knowledge of setting focus in a form
Understanding the Validation of a form

HTML:

Knowledge of formatting pages with HTML

CSS:

Knowledge of formatting Text with CSS
Knowledge of formatting Pages with CSS
Understanding how to Modify CSS
Knowledge of Saving CSS to Documents
Utilise CSS Documents to format websites
Understanding .Class Styles
Understanding TAG Styles
Understanding Compound Styles
Understanding #ID Styles
Knowledge of absolute and relative positioning
Knowledge of Designing with DIVs & CSS