Dreamweaver 4 - Introduction

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 4 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, it allows simple creation of tables and frames, plus the ability to use layers, animations and full support of cascading style sheets. It even includes its own DHTML animation tool - Timelines.

This course will teach you the fundamental features such as adding text, graphics and links to your site, along with instantly adding Flash elements and buttons. You will create complex web pages to build a site using Dreamweaver’s layout tools and design features, such as rollover buttons, library items and templates for a consistent design. At the end of the course you should be able to produce an efficient and professional website.

Dreamweaver Basics

	Dreamweaver Concepts
	The Document Window
	The Objects Panel; The Property Inspector
	Dockable Panels
	Defining a Local Site

Creating Pages

	Specifying site and Link Colours
	Making Lists
	Character Formatting; Positioning text
	Changing Font Properties
	Cleaning up Word HTML
	HTML Styles
	Adding Special Characters
	Adding E-Mail links
	Adding Flash Text

Working with Graphics

	Placing Graphics on the page
	Using the Asset Favourites
	Wrapping Text around images
	Image and text alignment options
	Adding Flash Objects

Creating Links

	Creating Hypertext Links
	Targeting a Link
	Creating Image Maps
	Linking to Named Anchors

Elements of Page Design

	Using Tables for page design
	Designing in Layout Mode
	Cell Formatting
	Working in different views
	Copying, pasting and selecting Table elements
	Using Tracing Images

Creating Forms

	Form types
	Building a Form
	Inserting a Form
	Adding Text, Check Boxes and Radio Buttons
	Creating List Menu items
	Testing Forms

Managing your Site

	Using the Site Window
	Adding/Modifying Files and Folders to a Site
	Opening, Renaming & Moving files in Site Window
	Switching Sites
	Connecting to a Remote Site
	Unloading Files
	Connecting to a Remote FTP Site

Using Libraries

	Adding & Placing Library items on the page
	Modifying Library items
	Updating Library references
	Library item properties

Using Templates

	Understanding and creating Templates
	Adding Editable regions to a Template
	Building pages based on a Template
	Modifying a Template

Creating Frames

	Framesets Versus Frames
	Creating a Frameset
	Specifying Frame properties
	Opening an existing page in a Frame
	Using ‘Save All Frames’
	Checking the Frame Content
	Frame Content with Links
	Creating ‘Noframes’ content

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