dreamweaver 8 web development

audience: Beginner - Intermediate
course duration: 3 days
delivery method: On-site / In-house

description

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

course outline

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
- Graphics on web pages
- Placing graphics on the page
- Modifying image properties
- Editing images
- 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
- Form processing
- 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