Macromedia Dreamweaver

This two day course is aimed at those new to building web pages for Internet and Intranet sites, and provides a thorough grounding in the Dreamweaver working environment. The current version of Dreamweaver is version MX 2004, but previous versions can be taught as well.

Delegates will learn how to establish, configure and maintain an Intranet or Internet Web site, and to develop and publish Web pages using Dreamweaver quickly and easily. Delegates can bring their own material (if notice given), or supplied examples can be used.

This course is a good introduction for delegates who wish to attend an advanced Dreamweaver course.

Pre-requisites
Delegates should have previously attended a course introducing the Internet, or be familiar with the Internet, and the World Wide Web in particular. They also need experience of the Windows operating system (or the Macintosh operating system if the course is to be run on Macs)

Course Outline

• Introducing the World Wide Web
• How the Internet and the World Wide Web works
• What is HTML?
• HTML standards and Browser Implementation
• Design Guidelines for Web publishing

Dreamweaver basics

• The Dreamweaver environment; Code v. Design view; Getting Help
• File organisation; Creating, defining and managing a site
• FTP access with Dreamweaver; synchronising files
• Creating HTML from scratch and converting a text document to HTML

Web Page Basics

• The Text menu: defining face, colour, size and alignment
• Previewing pages in a browser
• HTML Styles
• Hyperlinking; linking locally and remotely; relative and absolute links; Mailtos
• Page properties; Defining colours and background patterns for documents
• The Object window

Images

• Image placement; alignment and border variants; hyper linking images
• Reducing resolution; GIF v. JPEG issues; dithering & reduced bit-depth
• Interlacing; transparency
• Client side imagemaps

Tables and Framesets

• Inserting a table
• Table attributes (size, border, spacing and colour); pixel and percentage measurements
• Table Row and Cell attributes
• Using tables for page layouts
• Creating a frameset; nested framesets
• Default and user-defined targets and frame navigation

JavaScript and Behaviours

• JavaScript overview; browser compatibility issues
• Using Behaviours to create rollovers
• Behaviours in navigation
• Alerts and status bar messages

Dreamweaver Productivity Tools

• Using Templates
• Using Library Items

Hands On

Delegates will produce a typical web site using common web page elements to a high graphical standard. Delegates own material can be used if notice given (and suitability agreed).

This course includes full course notes and course materials. This outline can be tailored to specific client requirements