Dreamweaver course - beginners and intermediate

Two day beginners and intermediate Macromedia Dreamweaver course or Adobe Dreamweaver courses in Birmingham, Solihull and Midlands areas and around the UK.

This Macromedia Dreamweaver course or Adobe Dreamweaver course will cover the basics of Dreamweaver to how to design and build a small web site. The course also includes intermediate Dreamweaver techniques needed to work efficiently and create manageable web site designs using Dreamweaver Templates, CSS, and forms, as well as managing your web site and checking files.

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Dreamweaver beginners and intermediate course summary

Macromedia Dreamweaver course or Adobe Dreamweaver course

Dreamweaver course duration: 2 days
Level: beginners and intermediate
Software:   Adobe Dreamweaver CS4 or CS3, Macromedia Dreamweaver 8
Numbers: One to one or small groups of up to 4 trainees
Trainees in a group should have the same skill level and the same requirements.
Locations:
1) At client's site in Birmingham, Midlands and around the UK.
2) One to one, here in South Birmingham (limited availability). *

Dreamweaver course requirements:
You will just need good computer skills for this Dreamweaver course. However unless you have some prior exposure to web design or HTML editing, you may be better starting with a just one day Dreamweaver beginners course or separating the days by a few weeks.

 

Beginners and intermediate Dreamweaver course - 2 day course

 

Day 1

Beginners Introduction to Dreamweaver

Introduction to the tools and features of Dreamweaver

The principles of web design, effective design of navigation and links and the basics of accessibility.

How to organise the files in your website
File management and file types

Designing a simple web page
Setting a background colour for the page
Setting default text colours and active link colours
Giving the page a title

Using tables to layout a page
% with and pixel width tables
Setting table properties such as borders, background colours and cell padding

Adding text
Typing directly into the page or importing text
Formatting text with CSS styles
(or formatting text with font tags if you need this for HTML emails or old HTML documents)

Adding images and graphics
File naming, files sizes and the correct file types
Setting image properties such as size, border and Alt tags

Making links
Creating links to other pages and documents
Adding an email link
Using CSS to format link colour and hover colour for text links

Basic HTML recognition and editing

Using behaviours to create mouseovers effects on graphical buttons
Create image maps and hotspots

Design a simple page design and then create a 3 - 5 page website and link those pages together.

* optional - if time is available
Creating a simple page template
Using library items for repeated areas such as a navigation block

 

Day 2

Intermediate Dreamweaver

Tables
Designing a page with scaling (% width) tables
Complex tables and nested tables

Dreamweaver Templates
Creating and editing templates
Defining editable areas on the page and setting properties for those areas
Creating pages based on a template, editing and updating them
Adding content to pages based on a template
- If time is available, you may also look at the use of nested Templates for multi-sectioned sites.

Forms
Creating a simple feedback or enquiry form
How you can process the information in the form, including sending to an email
Validating the form (checking that certain fields are filled in with the correct information)

CSS (Cascading Style Sheets)
How CSS styles are used, updated and applied to HTML documents
Using CSS - beyond basic text styling
Class styles, tag redefine, id styes, link styling
Using CSS to set and control a background image
Use CSS to change text colour when the mouse moves over a hyperlink
Creating indented text with CSS Styles
Creating a colour block under a paragraph of text
Using CSS to format table borders, background colours and cell padding
Using CSS to style various elements of a form
Editing CSS code

Behaviours
Use Dreamweaver behaviours to add javascript functions (mouseover, pop up window, and others)
Image rollovers (mouseovers)

Testing & Site Management
Testing & bug fixing your web pages
Checking for broken links in your site
Using the site manager in Dreamweaver to manage and update your files
How to upload your site to your server
Using Assets
Using Find and Replace to change selected content or HTML code throughout the page
Anchor tags to add links to another part of the same page (for long pages of text)

SEO
Title tags, Meta tags, text content and search engines

 

 

On-site Adobe Dreamweaver courses or Macromedia Dreamweaver courses are available in Birmingham and Midlands areas including Redditch, Bromsgrove, Worcester and Solihull, and with trainers around the UK.

* Adobe Dreamweaver CS3 courses or Macromedia Dreamweaver 8 courses are available for one or two trainees in Cofton Hackett, South Birmingham (PC based training).

 

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See Also:
Dreamweaver and Web Design Introduction - Web Design, Web Graphics & HTML

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