Adobe Dreamweaver 8

Macromedia Dreamweaver 8: Website Development
Course Outline:

Unit 1: Introducing the Course
- Understanding the course
- Reviewing the course objectives and prerequisites
- Reviewing the course format
- Outlining 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, Maintenance, and Uploading
- Testing your site
- Maintaining your files and folders
- Connecting to a remote site
- Synchronizing files