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Dreamweaver 8 - Int/Advanced

 

 

Course Length: Two Days
Fees: Training at Client Offices: One delegate: £495 per-day + VAT

Additional delegates attending: £100 each per-day + VAT

Overview: Macromedia Dreamweaver has everything you need to develop a professional Web site. It is an exciting and fun package for the creation of professional quality web sites and is extremely easy to get to grips with because it uses the very best WYSIWYG (what you see is what you get) editors; allows simple creation of tables and frames; ability to use layers, animations; full support of cascading style sheets; extensive code-editing support.

Dreamweaver includes professional-quality, pre-built layouts and code, which includes site structures, forms, accessible templates, and JavaScript functions for client-side interactivity. There is also a Site Setup Wizard that helps you quickly enter the information for configuring dynamic, staged, or ISP-hosted sites.

The advanced course introduces concepts of the Dreamweaver Web development application including work with advanced Web site creation features including libraries and behaviors. In addition, you will use many of the new features available within the xHTML standard including style sheets and layers.

Course Objectives

bulletCreate dynamic user-interface elements, including simple rollovers and complex navigation bars.
bulletUse libraries to manage repeating site elements.
bulletDefine keyword, description, and other meta tags in order to make your site visible to automatic search engine spiders.
bulletCreate CSS styles to streamline text formatting within a page, and create external style sheets to allow formatting information to be used throughout a site.
bulletCreate and manage layers, as well as combine layers with behaviors to provide additional visual feedback for a viewer navigating a site.
bulletUse the History panel to simplify repetitive tasks both within a single document and with other documents in a site.
bulletTarget page content to specific browsers and versions.
bulletAdd a form to your web page.

Creating Head Content for a Web Page

bulletDefining elements of the HEAD tag
bulletUsing elements in the HEAD tag

Introduction to Style Sheets

bulletWorking with cascading style sheets
bulletUsing linked style sheets
bulletGetting Dreamweaver to use CSS instead of deprecated tags
bulletCreating CSS selectors and style rules
bulletDefining overall page properties
bulletInserting a background image using CSS
bulletStyling links
bulletStyling page items
bulletStyling lists

Working with Forms and Libraries

bulletUsing forms
bulletDatabase and server-side scripting
bulletCreating libraries

Working with Rollovers and Behaviours

bulletWorking with rollovers & flash buttons
bulletUsing Flash objects
bulletUsing behaviours

Working with Layers

bulletAdding layers
bulletModifying layers by using the Layers panel
bulletAttaching behaviours to layers
bulletRepeating and recording commands

Working with Timelines

bulletCreating timelines
bulletModifying timelines

Creating Forms

bulletSetting up forms
bulletAdding form elements
bulletValidating and testing forms

Testing, Uploading, and Maintaining a Site

bulletCheck Browser Compatibility

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