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Adobe Dreamweaver CS3 Website Development

 

Adobe Dreamweaver CS3 Website Development
Duration: 3 days

Adobe Dreamweaver CS3

Course Synopsis: Adobe Dreamweaver CS3 Website Development is a 3-day course that provides web designers with the knowledge and hands-on practice they need to build and manage professional web sites using the industry standard for professional web development and design. This class introduces the student to the fundamentals of Dreamweaver with an emphasis on best practices and current web standards.

Who Should Attend: This course is for people new to web design and development and would like to use Dreamweaver CS3 to build intuitive, attractive and accessible web sites. This class will cover design techniques as well as best practices for CSS and design standards.

Prerequisites: Because of the amount of material we cover in class, we do require students to be comfortable using a mouse, opening and saving files, and the general operations of computers. While we will make every reasonable effort to help, students with insufficient skills may be required to observe the class lessons or do their best to keep up without slowing down the rest of the class.

What You Will Learn:
• Dreamweaver Interface Basics
• Getting started with web design and layout
• Working with text and images
• Creating links and anchors
• Designing for devices with CS3
• Building Successful Site Navigation
• Building forms in Dreamweaver
• Fireworks CS3 integration
• Accessibility and Standards
• Site maintenance

Time: Class time is 9:00 a.m.- 4:00 p.m. Breaks are scheduled throughout the day and lunch is typically scheduled 12-1. Students provide their own lunch.

Locations: We have company-operated facilities in Atlanta, Chicago, Denver, San Diego and Washington DC. We also work with a network of rental facilities to offer our classes regularly across the United States and in Canada. Please double-check the location of your class with our office to make sure you get to the right location.

Related Courses: We recommend the following courses that relate to this class: Adobe Flash CS3 Introduction, Fireworks CS3, and Dreamweaver Advanced Development. Please take a look at our other course outlines.

Goals: Sterling Ledet and Associates realizes the importance of education and we take pride in being able to offer you classes that are more custom fit to your needs. Call us at (770) 414-5007 if you have any special questions or e-mail us at sales@ledet.com.

Registration: Please fill out our registration form and fax it to us at (312) 896-9094.


Adobe Dreamweaver CS3 Website Development

 

LESSON 1
Web Basics
HTML vs. XHTML
What is CSS?
What is XML?
What is DHTML?
What is JavaScript?
File Naming Conventions
What is an Index Page?

LESSON 2
Exploring the Interface
Touring the Interface
Setting a Default Workspace
Saving Workspace Layouts
Defining a Default Browser
Using Shortcut Keys

LESSON 3
Managing Your Sites
What Is a Local Root Folder?
Defi ning a Site
Understanding Relative and Absolute URLs
Managing Files and Folders
Understanding Path Structure
Understanding Site Root and
Document Relative Links
Creating Site Maps
Creating a Site From Scratch
Deleting a Site Definition

LESSON 4
Learning The Basics
Creating and Saving a New
Document
Understanding the Significance of
Default Documents
Setting Page Titles
Inserting Images
Inserting Text
Aligning Text and Images
Creating Links With Images and Text
Inserting <meta> Tags

LESSON 5
Linking
Linking With Point To File
Linking To New Source Files
Creating E-mail Links
Creating Named Anchors
Linking To Files

LESSON 6
Working with Cascading Style Sheets
Understanding the CSS Specifications
Understanding the Cascading Part of
Style Sheets
The Anatomy of a Style Sheet
Understanding Page Properties
Using the Page Properties Dialog Box
Types of Style Sheets
Exporting and Linking CSS Files
Using the CSS Style Panel
Understanding CSS Selectors
Understanding Type Selectors
Creating Type Selectors
Understanding ID Selectors
Creating ID Selectors
Understanding Class Selectors
Creating Class Selectors
Creating CSS Rollovers with
Pseudo-Classes

LESSON 7
Working With Typography
Leaving the <font> Tag Behind
Using Valid XHTML Typographic
Elements
Formatting With The Property
Inspector
What Measurement Should You Use?
Managing White Space With Margins,
Padding, and Line Height
Using Font Lists
Aligning Text
Using Ordered, Unordered, and Definition Lists
What is Flash Text
Creating Flash Text

LESSON 8
Tables
About Tables
Tables in Code view
Creating and Adding Content to Tables
Changing Table Borders with XHTML
Coloring Tables with XHTML and CSS
Aligning Table Content
Sorting Tables
Setting Table Widths
Creating Rounded-Corner Tables


LESSON 9
Web Page Layout
Dreamweaver’s Layout Tools
Tracing Images
Adding AP Div Tags
Modifying AP Div Tags
Adjusting Table Widths and Nesting
Tables

LESSON 10
Designing for Devices
What is a Device?
Attaching a Printer-Friendly Style Sheet
Styling for Print
Adobe Device Central

LESSON 11
Rollovers
Rollover Rules
Creating Simple Rollovers
Creating Disjointed Rollovers
Creating Navigation Bars with
Multiple States
Creating Flash Buttons

LESSON 12
XHTML
Viewing the Code
Editing in Code View
The Code Toolbar
Working with Code Collapse
The Quick Tag Editor
Working with snippets

LESSON 13
Building Forms
About Forms
Adding Text Fields
Adding Checkboxes and Radio
Buttons
Adding Lists and Menus
Submitting Form Results
Styling Form Elements with CSS

LESSON 14
Essential Behaviors
Opening a New Browser Window
Creating a Popup Message
Validating Text Fields
Getting More Behaviors
Removing Extensions

LESSON 15
Fireworks and Photoshop Integration
External Image Editor Preferences
Built-in Image Editing Tools
Roundtrip Editing from Dreamweaver
to Fireworks or Photoshop
Copying and Pasting

LESSON 16
Templates and Library Items
Templates in action
Creating a New Template
Applying Templates
Modifying a Template
Adding Repeating Regions
Working with Repeating Regions
Adding Optional Regions
Creating a Library Item
Modifying a Library Item

LESSON 17
Automation in Dreamweaver CS3
Using the History Panel
Saving History Steps as Commands
Using Find and Replace

LESSON 18
Accessibility
W3C Accessibility Guidelines
Accessibility Preferences
Inserting Accessible Images
Inserting Accessible Tables
Inserting Accessible Form Objects

LESSON 19
Inserting Media Objects
About media Objects
Linking to Audio and Video Files
Embedding Audio and Video Files
Setting Parameters
Inserting Flash Content
Inserting Flash Video

LESSON 20
Using Spry Tools
What is Ajax?
What is Spry?
Adding an XML Data Source
Adding a Spry Table
Adding Spry Detail Regions
Using Spry Widgets
Adding Spry Form Fields



 

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