Duration: 2 days | Book this course
Cost: $770.00 + GST
You want to make some information available on the Internet. To do this, you might want to design and build a website and upload it. The features and functions in Dreamweaver will enable you create a web page to suit your requirements.
Prerequisites
Familiarity with the Windows operating system and Internet are essentials. A comfortable skills level in Photoshop is ideal but not a strict requirement.
Who Should Take This Course
This course is intended for people tasked to maintain a website or intending to create one from scratch.
Course Objectives
Upon completing this course, you will have learned how to:
- Define a website.
- Explore the Dreamweaver environment and learn its tools.
- Organize site files.
- Add content and images to a web page.
- Identify the different types of links and create them for easy navigation.
- Create template webpages.
- Create CSS styles to streamline text formatting within a page, and create external style sheets to allow formatting information to be used throughout a site.
- Add a form to your web page.
- Use libraries to manage repeating site elements.
- Insert behaviours and spry widgets for added functionality.
- Define keyword, description, and other meta tags in order to make your site visible to automatic search engine spiders.
- Upload a website.
Course Outline
Getting Started
Planning a website: Basic Site Structure
Current Web Design Practices
Understanding web languages
File Naming Conventions
Exploring the Dreamweaver Interface
The Welcome Screen
The Application Toolbar
The Document Toolbar and Window
Arranging Panels
Managing Workspaces
The Properties Inspector
Starting a new site
Defining a new site
Managing Sites
Managing Files and Folders
Building a website
Creating new documents
Assigning Page Titles
Adding content to webpages
Structuring content
Formatting Text
Working with units of measurement
Controlling font sizing
Changing text colour
Aligning text
Using text styles
Working with Images
Understanding image types
Managing assets in Dreamweaver
Placing images
Modifying image properties
Photoshop Integration
Optimising images
Creating Links
Link basics: Types of link
Creating links
Using named anchors
Adding absolute links
Inserting email links
Working with Tables
Tables vs. CSS
Understanding table elements
Inserting tables
Modifying table properties
Creating a basic template
Creating editable attributes (i.e. regions)
Creating new pages from a template
Working with repeating regions
Site Management
Removing, moving, and deleting files
Checking for broken links
Checking for browser compatibility
Uploading and downloading files
Synchronising sites
CSS Foundations
Understanding style sheets
Anatomy of a CSS rule
The CSS Styles panel
Using the Code Navigator
Working with different types of selectors
Attaching external style sheets
Controlling Layout with CSS
CSS structuring basics
Structuring with DIV tags
The Box Model
Understanding CSS floats
Creating Forms
Understanding how forms work
Creating a form
Adding form elements
Setting form properties
Inserting submit buttons
Testing the form
Extra Stuff
Creating and modifying library items within the Library Panel
Inserting Behaviours and Spry Widgets
Defining Meta tags in the <HEAD> section
Inserting plug-ins (e.g. Flash, QuickTime movies)