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Provided by: XChange Training UK Macromedia Dreamweaver 8 - Introduction Two Day Training CourseDreamweaver |
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Training
Provided by XChange Training UK
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.
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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
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
About The Training Provider: XChange Training UK
XChange Training UK - XChange Training offer bespoke and scheduled training in a large range of creative and web technolgies including Adobe training courses for Adobe InDesign CS4 & CS3, Adobe Dreamweaver CS4 & CS3, Adobe Illustrator CS4 & CS3, Adobe Photoshop CS4 & CS3, Adobe Flash CS4 & CS3 & Flash ActionScript; Adobe Acrobat 9 & 8 and Adobe Premiere CS3 and QuarkXPress 8 & 7; Macromedia Dreamweaver 8, Macromedia...
