This Adobe dreamweaver course is for anyone interested in developing web pages and web sites with Adobe Dreamweaver. Adobe Dreamweaver is an industry leading web design tool and this course provides you with the basics to get started using this powerful software. Learn the basic concepts of web design, build a website and learn how to manage it in this course. This introduction will provide the groundwork to develop your web design skills in more advanced courses.

Course Content

Web fundamentals

• WYSIWYG and the world as your output
• Platform issues (windows, Macs, etc)
• Web standards and the end user (size, colour, etc)
• HTML fundamentals

Features of the product

• The Interface (workspace)
• Previewing in browsers
• Validate HTML Code and Check browser compatibility
• The Toolbars
• The Panels
• The Property Inspector
• The document window

Site creation and management

• Defining the Local site
• The Files panel and the Site Window
• Remote and Local site view and management
• Put and Get files (uploading and downloading)
• Check in and Check out as part of management strategies

Web pages creation and basic definition

• Creating a new page
• Page Properties
• Colour in Dreamweaver (the colour palette)
• Document type (DTD)
• The Head content

Page composition

• Working with text in Dreamweaver
• Basic formatting with the Property inspector
• HTML and CSS mode for text formatting
• Text with CSS and the CSS panel
• Creating, editing and managing CSS styles
• Ordered and unordered Lists
• Text indent and outdent
• Special characters

Navigation

• Links and URL (absolute versus relative links)
• Local, External and Email links
• Vertical navigation with name anchors in Dreamweaver
• Targeting links

Working with graphics

• Image formats
• Inserting images in Dreamweaver
• Image properties
• Images and text blocks
• Titling with the Alt text box (accessibility attributes)

Navigating with Graphic elements

• Images as buttons
• Rollover effects
• Image maps

Working with tables

• Inserting tables
• Table properties
• Cell, column and row properties
• Tables as layout strategy
• Inserting and managing content inside tables

AP Elements / Layers

• AP Elements panel
• Drawing/inserting AP Elements on page
• AP Elements properties inspector
• Layouts with AP Elements

Working with Assets

• The Assets panel
• Categories in the Assets panel
• Favourites in the Assets panel
• Placing content from the Assets panel into pages
• Reusable items (The Library)
• Creating, managing and editing library items

Templates

• About Templates
• The Templates panel
• Creating basic templates
• Assigning editable regions
• Inserting content into templates
• Creating documents based on existing templates
• Using and Editing templates

Course Outcomes

Upon completion of this course, it is expected participants will have the ability to:

• Produce a number of web pages towards a basic web site construction
• Create and manage a web site and its content
• Format text with basic CSS
• Use graphics as elements of web pages
• Use tables, basic AP elements, and images
• Implement web navigation strategies
• Implement web layouts
• Manage assets for the site (library)
• Manage Templates
• Use CSS as a global style control strategy
• Make sure the pages will display on a variety of browsers and hardware

Before the course

Experience with the underlying operating system (Windows or Macintosh), i.e. an ability to navigate the environment using a mouse and keyboard, manage files and folders plus a basic understanding of the world wide web and web browsers.