Dreamweaver 8: Website Development

Macromedia Dreamweaver 8: Website Development provides web designers with the knowledge and hands-on practice they need to build and manage professional websites using Dreamweaver 8.

Upon completion of this course, you should be able to:

• Format using cascading style sheets
• Use graphics on web pages
• Use libraries and templates
• Create forms
• Test, maintain, and upload you site

This course is for people new to web design and development and want to use Dreamweaver 8 to build intuitive, attractive and accessible websites.

Unit 1: Introducing the Course

• Understanding the course format
• Reviewing the course objectives and prerequisites
• Reviewing the course format
• Outlining at the course content
• Understanding static page architecture

Unit 2: Getting Started

• Introducing Dreamweaver 8
• Learning the interface
• Defining a local site
• Creating a website

Unit 3: Adding Content to a Site

• Adding content
• Controlling document structure
• Making lists
• Adding horizontal rules
• Adding special characters

Unit 4: 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

Unit 5: 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

Unit 6: 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

Unit 7: 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
• Importing tabular data
• Using table layout view

Unit 8: 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

Unit 9: Creating Forms

• Understanding forms
• Processing a form
• Setting focus in a form
• Validating a form

Unit 10: Testing, Maintaining, and Uploading

• Testing your site
• Maintaining your files and folders
• Connecting to a remote site
• Synchronizing files