Dreamweaver MX - Advanced

Course Length: One Day
Fees: Training at Client Offices: One delegate: £495 per-day + VAT
Additional delegates attending: £100 each per-day + VAT

Overview: Macromedia Dreamweaver MX 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 MX 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 MX 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 HTML 4 standard including style sheets and layers.

Course Objectives

	Create dynamic user-interface elements, including simple rollovers and complex navigation bars.
	Use libraries to manage repeating site elements.
	Define keyword, description, and other meta tags in order to make your site visible to automatic search engine spiders.
	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.
	Create and manage layers, as well as combine layers with behaviors to provide additional visual feedback for a viewer navigating a site.
	Use the History panel to simplify repetitive tasks both within a single document and with other documents in a site.
	Target page content to specific browsers and versions.
	Add a form to your web page.

Creating Head Content for a Web Page

	Defining elements of the HEAD tag
	Using elements in the HEAD tag

Introduction to Style Sheets

Working with cascading style sheets

Using linked style sheets

Working with Forms and Libraries

Using forms

Database and server-side scripting

Creating libraries

Working with Rollovers and Behaviors

Working with rollovers

Using Flash objects

Using behaviors

Working with Layers

Adding layers

Modifying layers by using the Layers panel

Attaching behaviors to layers

Repeating and recording commands

Working with Timelines

Creating timelines

Modifying timelines

Creating Forms

Setting up forms

Adding form elements

Validating and testing forms

Testing Sites in Target Browsers

Checking browser compatibility

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