Overview

With its combination of visual page design, easy HTML coding and efficient site control, Adobe Dreamweaver is the world’s most popular package when it comes to producing professional Web sites. Whether you’re planning to establish a simple Internet presence or to take the Web by storm, Dreamweaver provides everything you need.

Dreamweaver can hide the details of pages’ HTML code from the user, making it possible for non-coders to create web pages and sites.

Dreamweaver allows users to preview websites in many browsers, provided that they are installed on their computer. It also has some site management tools, such as the ability to find and replace lines of text or code by whatever parameters specified across the entire site, and a templatization feature for creating multiple pages with similar structures. The behaviours panel also enables use of basic JavaScript without any coding knowledge.

Dreamweaver also allows you to drag and drop many common elements into your page such as images, rollovers, form elements, meta tags and many more.

Dreamweaver will allow you to create Web Sites without a prior working knowledge of HTML and is designed for beginners through to more advanced Web Designers.

Course Summary

Dreamweaver CS3: Website Development provides web designers with the knowledge and hands-on practice they need to build and manage professional websites using Dreamweaver CS3.

Audience

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

On Completion

You will learn how to build a functional site and explore the main functions of Dreamweaver CS3.

Course Content

Introducing the Course

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

Dreamweaver CS3 New Features

CSS Layouts
CSS Management
CSS Advisor
Browser Compatability
Spry Data
Spry Widgets
Spry Effects
Photoshop CS3 Integration
Adobe Device Central
Adobe Bridge CS3

Getting Started

Introducing Dreamweaver CS3
Learning the interface
Defining a local site
Creating a website

Adding Content to a Site

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

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

Working with Graphics

Using graphics on web pages
Placing graphics on the page
Modifying image properties
Editing images
Doing roundtrip editing with Fireworks CS3/Photoshop CS3
Customizing the Insert bar
Adding Flash content
Adding Flash Video

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

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 and Using table layout view

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

Creating Forms

Understanding and Processing forms
Setting focus and Validating a form

Testing, Maintenance, and Uploading

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

Dates

Duration: 3 days
Price: £690