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These Dreamweaver courses provide web designers with the knowledge and hands-on practice they need to build and manage professional websites using Dreamweaver CS5.
Intended Audience
To gain the most from these courses you should be comfortable in a Windows environment, and familiar with web technology.
Courses
Dreamweaver Advanced
This course is for people experienced in web design and development and want to use advanced features of Dreamweaver CS5 to build intuitive, attractive and accessible websites. A pre-requisite to this course is Dreamweaver Essentials, or equivalent experience developing with Adobe® Dreamweaver software
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[+] Full course outline for Dreamweaver Advanced
- Overview of Best Practices
- Content vs Design
- Web Standards: Separate content, presentation & behaviour
- Design for accessibility
- The XHTML document
- Quirks vs standards mode
- Doctype encodings: strict, transitional & frameset
- Namespace declaration
- Character Encoding
- Natural flow of an XHTML document
- Inline vs block level elements
- The CSS document
- CSS syntax breakdown
- Syntax notes
- Selector types: Element, Class, ID, Pseudo class, Grouped, Contextual/ Compound
- Understanding the cascade
- Understanding inheritance
- Understanding specificity
- Browser anomalies: IECC, Externalising IECC, Has Layout
- Troubleshooting bugs
- The CSS styles panel in detail
- All mode
- Current mode
- View buttons: Category, List, Show only set properties
- Beginning to Build
- Applying divs and spans
- Reset default browser padding and margin
- Naming selectors
- The CSS box object model
- Interpretation of the CSS box object model
- Understanding floating elements
- Floats - problems & solutions
- Contextual selectors
- Centreing a div and using a hack
- Absolute positioning (AP)
- Relative positioning
- Background Layout Graphics
- About background graphics
- Creating faux columns
- Creating rounded corners
- CSS Styled Navigation
- CSS styled horizontal navigation
- CSS styled vertical navigation
- Designing for Non Screen Media
- Media types
- Designing for print services
- Create and link to a print style sheet
- Print-friendly design considerations
- Designing for handheld devices
- Device central
- Handheld design considerations
- Favicons for URL Display
- Favicon overview
- Favicons with online generators
- Favicons with Photoshop plug-ins
- Troubleshooting browser issues
- Advanced Forms
- Form accessibility
- Form labels
- Access keys
- The tab index
- Grouping fields with fieldset
- CSS form layout
- Styling fieldsets and fields
- Aligning checkboxes and radio fields
- Form validation: client side and server side
- Spry form validation
- Building AJAX Pages with Spry
- The Spry framework
- AJAX, JavaScript & XML
- Creating Spry widgets
- Spry collapsible panels
- Spry tabbed panels
- Spry accordions
- Styling a Spry layout widget
- Modifying Spry behaviours
Dreamweaver Essentials
This course is for people new to web design and development and want to use Dreamweaver CS5 to build intuitive, attractive and accessible websites.
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[+] Full course outline for Dreamweaver Essentials
- Unit 1: Introducing the Course
- Understanding the course format
- Reviewing the course objectives and prerequisites
- Reviewing the course format
- Outlining at the course content
- Understanding static page architecture
- Unit 2: Getting Started
- Introducing Dreamweaver CS5
- Learning the interface
- Defining a local site
- Creating a website
- Unit 3: Adding Content to a Site
- Adding content
- Controlling document structure
- Making lists
- Adding horizontal rules
- Adding special characters
- Unit 4: Formatting with Cascading Style Sheets
- Formatting text
- Introducing Cascading Style Sheets
- Creating styles
- Exporting CSS rule definitions
- Creating class styles
- Attaching external style sheets
- Creating advanced styles
- Creating a new external style sheet
- Displaying styles
- Understanding cascading order and inheritance of styles
- Creating internal styles with the Property inspector
- Unit 5: Working with Graphics
- Graphics on web pages
- Placing graphics on the page
- Modifying image properties
- Editing images
- Roundtrip editing with Fireworks
- Customizing the Insert bar
- Adding Flash content
- Adding Flash Video
- Unit 6: Navigating Your Site
- Understanding site navigation
- Linking to files in your site
- Linking to sites
- Linking to named anchors
- Adding e-mail links
- Linking from images
- Creating a jump menu
- Unit 7: Designing Page Layouts with CSS
- Understanding page layout
- Using layers for layout
- Adding CSS to layers
- Using absolute and relative positioning
- Designing with DIVs
- Designing navigation links with CSS
- Importing tabular data
- Using table layout view
- Unit 8: Using Libraries and Templates
- Using site library items
- Creating site templates
- Defining editable regions
- Using templates
- Applying a template to an existing page
- Modifying templates
- Unit 9: Creating Forms
- understanding forms
- Form processing
- Setting focus in a form
- Validating a form
- Unit 10: Testing, Maintenance and Uploading
- Testing your site
- Maintaining your files and folders
- Connecting to a remote site
- Synchronizing files
