Macromedia Dreamweaver 8 - Introduction Two Day Training Course

Dreamweaver 8 is the latest incarnation of Macromedia s leading web development and site management application. Its powerful tools allow you to build and manage great web sites all through an intuitive graphical user interface. It integrates perfectly with Macromedia s other leading applications like Fireworks and Flash and respects all the latest internet standards.

The two-day training for Dreamweaver 8 allows users to examine the core features of this powerful software in greater depth than the one day course while also affording more time for creation and deployment of real site elements. You will also look at creating basic form elements for submitting user data to a server.

On completing this two day course, you will be confidently using Dreamweaver 8 and a graphics editor to create and implement visually exciting web sites. You will have gone right from conceptualising how your site should be structured through to uploading it into your web space.

Background
-What is HTML?
-How the web works: sites and links
-Screen design considerations
-Creating efficient web pages: size and content
-Planning a web site

Dreamweaver overview
-Dreamweaver's windows, palettes and inspectors
-Working with the split code view
-Preferences
-Viewing your work in an external browser

Creating a local site
-Creating a site using the site window
-Creating an index/default page
-Working with elements
-Undoing changes using the history palette

Text Formatting 1: characters and fonts
-Character formatting
-Text alignment
-Font attributes and groups
-Logical styles

Text Formatting 2: block elements
-Headings
-Paragraphs vs line breaks
-White spaces
-Lists
-Indenting and tags
-Searching for and replacing elements
-Spell checking

Using HTML and CSS styles
-Formatting text using HTML styles
-Using Cascading Style Sheets for text formatting
-Linking to external style sheets

Graphics
-File formats: GIF, JPEG, PNG
-Inserting images
-Applying and changing attributes
-Aligning images with text
-Using spacer GIFs
-Using background images
-Linking to image editing tools
-Creating rollover images and navigation bars

Multimedia
-Creating Flash text and buttons
-Embedding video and audio files
-Inserting plug-in based content

Hyperlinks and Anchors
-Creating links on text and images
-Linking to other pages in the site
-Linking to content within the page
-Linking to external sites
-mailto links
-Targeting links
-Creating image maps

Working with Tables
-Designing pages using tables
-Table attributes: spacing, padding, width etc
-Using table layout view to quickly design layouts
-Fixed, percentage and autostretch tables
-Sorting the contents of a table
-Using tabular data
-Nested tables

Using content from other sources
-Pasting text from a text editor
-Pasting HTML
-Importing tabular data
-Inserting Fireworks HTML
-Cleaning up Word HTML

Frames & Layers
-What are frames?
-Creating a custom frameset
-Using the frames panel
-Building a navigation system
-Page targeting within frames
-No-frames content

Forms
-Different HTML form elements
-Overview of CGI types
-Submitting data

Collaboration
-Using file check in/check out
-Synchronising files

FTP and remote site management
-Uploading and downloading your site
-Testing your site
-Keeping your site versions synchronised

Looking ahead
--Dreamweaver Developer Centre resources