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Training Course Summary:

This three-day course is an introductory course for new users of Dreamweaver who wish to build professional static websites. Macromedia Dreamweaver is a benchmark tool for those who need to build and manage professional websites. This course has been specifically designed to enable you to master the essentials of Dreamweaver quickly and easily. You will cover creating, editing, publishing and updating a website as well as adding elements to existing sites and important site management issues.

Pre-Requisites:

None

Who Should Attend:

This course is aimed at individuals with little or no prior knowledge of Dreamweaver, who wish to produce or maintain Dreamweaver web-sites.

Training Course Overview/Content:

Introducing Dreamweaver
Course objectives
Static page architecture

Getting started
Introduction to Dreamweaver
Dreamweaver interface basics
Creating a local site
Creating a new HTML page
Using development views
Previewing pages
Setting document properties

Adding content to a site
Adding content
Importing text files
Importing Word and Excel content
Controlling document structure
Creating headings, paragraphs and lists
Adding special characters

Formatting text
Formatting text on the web
Changing the font properties
Introducing Cascading Style Sheets
Fonts and class sizes
Creating styles
Controlling text

Creating tag selections
Creating advanced styles
Exporting CSS style definitions
Attaching external style sheets
Creating a new style sheet
Working with graphics

Placing graphics on the page
Accessibility settings
Modifying image properties
Image editing in Dreamweaver
Roundtrip editing with Fireworks
Optimising an image
Adding Flash movies
Navigating your site

Hypertext links
Linking files to your site
Linking to other sites
Linking to named anchors
Adding e-mail links
Linking from images
Linking from an image map
Creating a navigation bar
Creating a jump menu


Using libraries and templates

Creating library items
Placing library items on a page
Creating site templates
Applying a template to an existing image
Designing page layout

Understanding page layout
Structuring page layout with tables
Importing tabular data
Using table layout view
Using layers for layout
Adding the Show-Hide layouts behaviour
Converting tables to layers
Converting layers to tables
Creating forms

Creating a form
Form processing
Setting focus on a form
Testing, maintenance and uploading

Checking accessibility, links and browser compatibility
Maintaining files
Using the integrated File Browser
Connecting to a remote site
Cloaking folders and files
Uploading files
Synchronising files