Macromedia Dreamweaver MX 2004 Fundamentals
Training
Provided by The Virtual Training Company
Mark Fletcher - Certified Macromedia Professional, guides users through developing a web site with the latest version of Macromedia's leading web editor, Dreamweaver MX 2004. He demonstrates the fundamental techniques required to harness the full potential of this professional HTML/XHTML editor, enabling users to design, develop, and maintain, web sites that adhere to the latest web standards. Some of the key new features covered in this course: CSS to increase control over a web site, making it more accessible and easier to maintain; Dreamweaver's cross-browser validation feature, which ensures that no pages are using markup, or CSS not supported in certain browsers. Save time cropping, resizing and making minor changes to images with Dreamweaver's built-in Fireworks technology; copy and paste from Word and Excel documents directly into Dreamweaver while maintaining the appearance of your Office documents; edit files and change code directly on remote FTP. To begin learning today, simply click one of the links below.
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Macromedia Dreamweaver MX 2004 Fundamentals
Introduction to Dreamweaver MX 2004
- What is Dreamweaver?
- System Requirements
- Dreamweaver Updater
- The Lessons Folder
Planning and Design
- Design and Visualization
- Naming Conventions
- CSS and HTML Prototyping
- Tracing Image
- Resources
Creating a Site
- Creating a Site Definition - Win
- Creating a Site Definition - Mac
- Advanced Site Setup
Dreamweaver Basics
- Workspace
- Start Page
- Document Window
- Insert Bar
- Document Tool Bar
- Creating New Doc
- XHTML vs. HTML
- Document Structure
- Preview in Browser
- Browser Target Check
- Panels and Panel Groups
- Relevant CSS and CSS Properties Tabs
- Colors
- Behaviors
- Extensibility
CSS Overview
- Why CSS?
- Understanding CSS
- Classes and IDs
- Attaching Style Sheets
- The Cascade
- Inheritance
- Overriding CSS Rules
- Pseudo Child Selectors
Document Setup
- Page Properties - Appearance
- Page Properties - Link State
- Page Properties - Headings
- Properties Inspector
- Exporting CSS Styles
- Panels and CSS Styles - Page Appearance
- Panels and CSS Styles - Headings
- Panels and CSS Styles - Link States
Text
- Adding Text
- Selecting Text
- Aligning Text
- Text Objects
- Special Characters
- Creating Font Sets
- Text Size
- Problems Sizing Text
- Check Spelling
- Word Documents
Images
- Web Graphic Formats
- Default Images Folder
- Inserting Images
- Alternative Text Label
- Assets Panel
- External Image Editor
- Integrated Image Editing Tools
- Image Placeholders
- Image Rollovers
Links
- Creating Text Links
- Image Links
- Named Anchors
- E-Mail Links
- Image Maps
- Modifying Image Maps
- Link Object
- Absolute and Relative Paths
- Null and Script Links
- Link Checker
- Site Map and Links
CSS Positioning
- CSS Positioning Basics
- Absolute Positioning
- Floating Content
- Relative Positioning
- CSS Positioning Techniques
Lists
- Unordered Lists
- Ordered Lists
- Definition Lists
- CSS Rollover Buttons
Template Design
- Preparation
- Top of Page
- Main Content
- Footer
- SideBar
- Navigation Bar
- Tidying up the Index Page
- Inner Page
- Validate CSS and Create Templates
Data Tables
- Inserting Tables
- Tables and HTML
- Import Tabular Data
- Exporting Table Data
- Selecting Table Elements
- Resizing Table Elements
- Aligning Table Elements
- Merging and Splitting Table Cells
- Cell Padding Space and Borders
- Headings and Accessibility
- Copy and Paste
- Colorizing
- Formatting Tables
- Sorting Tables
- Excel Copy and Paste
Layout Tables
- Layout Tables Overview
- Adding CSS
- Styling the Sidebar
- CSS and Print
Forms
- Forms Overview
- Inserting a Form
- Positioning Form Elements
- Text Fields
- Password Fields
- Multiple Line Fields
- Checkboxes
- Radio Buttons
- Menus and Lists
- Scrolling Lists
- Hidden Fields
- File Fields
- Submit and Reset Buttons
- Image Fields
- Form Properties
- Forms and Behaviors
- Forms and CSS
Library Items
- Library Items Overview
- Inserting and Updating
- Properties
- Library Items and Behaviors
- SSI vs. Library Items
Templates
- Templates Overview
- Creating Templates
- Creating Pages Based on Templates
- Updating Pages Based on Templates
- Exploring Template Code
- Optional Regions
- Template Preferences
Flash
- Insert and Edit Flash Content
- Flash Buttons
- Flash Text
- Flash Elements
Site Navigation
- Navigation Bar
- Show Popup Menus
- Modify Show Popup Menus
- Jump Menus
- PVII Menu Magic II
- PVII Tree Menu Magic
- Flash Bang
- Site Map
CSS Troubleshooting
- Troubleshooting the RU Rocket Club CSS
- Dealing with Netscape 4
- The Box Model and Internet Explorer 5.0 / 5.5
- Hiding CSS from Internet Explorer
- Internet Explorer Conditional Comments
- Internet Explorer - Mac Bugs
- Hiding CSS from Opera
Site Management
- Configuring a Remote Folder - Basic
- Setting up a Remote Folder - Advanced
- Moving and Renaming Files
- Adding and Deleting Files
- Link Checker
- External Links and Orphaned Files
- Checking Links Using the Site Map
- Publishing your Site
- Understanding Check In and Check Out
- Configuring Check In and Check Out
- Synchronize
- Cloaking
- Selecting Newer Files
Frames
- What are Frames?
- Creating a Frameset
- Frames Panel
- Saving Frames and Framesets
- Frame and Frameset Properties
- Opening in Frames
- Frames and Links
- Nested Frames
- No Frames
Credits
- About this Author
About The Training Provider: The Virtual Training Company
The Virtual Training Company - The Virtual Training Company started in California's Silicon Valley in 1996.
VTC grew quickly over the next three years and relocated first in 1999 to the beautiful town of Winchester, Virginia; and six years later to Stephens City, Virginia.
The company was founded by British born Mark Vernon who started producing CD-based training for Apple software. The format on the CDs - narrated...
