New Media Training

Adobe Dreamweaver CS3 - Website Development

Description

Macromedia 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 and want to use Dreamweaver CS3 to build intuitive, attractive and accessible web sites.

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 CS3
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, Maintaining, and Uploading

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

External links: Adobe