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Adobe Dreamweaver CS5 Level 1: Website Development and CSS...*NEW VERSION CS5*

Class Offerings

Adobe Dreamweaver CS5 Level 1: Website Development is a 3-day course which provides web designers the skills to create, design, manage edit and publish professional websites. Students leave this class with the comprehensive abilities to build, incorporate graphics, set up interactivity and publish their websites. Please contact us regarding pricing and availability.

Length of Workshop: 3 Days
Class Times: 9:00AM - 4:00-4:30 PM

Adobe Dreamweaver CS5 Level 1: Website Development and CSS...*NEW VERSION CS5*

Student Testimonials:

Excellent class! We covered an enormous amount of information, and every question was answered. I never felt like the class was going on without anyone.

I've conducted training and participated in countless training sessions in the past. Rich is A+ talent and it showed in his approach to teaching across an array of student needs and level of understanding.

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Customizing Your Workspace

• Touring the Workspace
• Switching and splitting views
• Working with Panels
• Selecting a Workspace layout
• Adjusting Toolbars
• Personalizing preferences
• Creating custom keyboard shortcuts
• Using the Property Inspector

HTML Basics

• Overview of HTML code and structure
• Writing HTML code by hand
• The future of HTML

Cascading Style Sheet (CSS) Basics

• Overview of CSS cod and structure
• HTML vs. CSS formatting
• Understanding the CSS Box Model
• Understanding the HTML default formatting
• Formatting text and objects
• Creating compound selectors and custom classes

Getting a Quick Start in Dreamweaver

• Defining a Dreamweaver site
• Using the Welcome screen
• Selecting a pre-built CSS layout
• Saving a web page
• Modifying the page title
• Changing Headings
• Inserting text and images
• Selecting and modifying CSS styles
• Adjusting fonts, colors, and sizes for text
• Using Dreamweaver's Property Inspector
• Previewing a page in Live view
• Previewing pages in a browser

Creating a Web Page Layout

• Overview of designing web pages
• Working with thumbnails and wireframes
• Modifying one of the existing 16 CSS-based layouts
• Adding a background image to page componenets
• Inserting new
  components
• Modifying the page width and background color
• Modifying existing content and formatting
• Inserting an image placeholder
• Inserting placeholder text
• Modifying the footer
• Checking browser compatibility

Working with Cascading Style Sheets

• Working with the CSS Styles Panel
• Creating new CSS rules
• Creating an interactive menu using CSS
• Modifying hyperlink behavior using CSS
• Creating faux columns using CSS
• Moving CSS rules to an external style sheet
• Creating style sheets for other media types
• Using Check Browser Compatibility to spot bugs
• Attaching an external style sheet that updates all documents linked to that particular CSS
• Separating "Content" (HTML) from "Presentation" (CSS) on your web pages with CSS
• Using CSS to guarantee a consistent look to a number of pages within your website
• Choosing a CSS layout and choosing the best option for your project
• Character encoding and UTF-8
• Using DIV tags to apply attributes
• Creating new CSS rules to identify formatted elements and style properties: the Selector and Declaration
• Understanding the hierarchy of Style Sheets and how the browser decides how the page displays
• Different browsers and how they use default style sheets

Working with Templates

• Creating a template from an existing layout
• Inserting editable regions
• Producing child pages from a template
• Updating a template and child pages
• Using Dreamweaver's template system to manage multi-page websites
• Associating the home page and new pages with a template
• Updating a template
• Creating and using Library items
• Creating and using server-side includes

Working with Text, Lists, and Tables

• Importing text from different programs
• Creating headings
• Creating bulleted and numbered lists
• Creating text indents
• Creating and style tables
• Spell checking web pages
• Finding and replacing text
• Styling tables with CSS and using Table tags for all tables within a website
• Spry Tooltip Widgets utilizing the Tooltip container, Page elements, and Constructor script

Working with Images

• Overview of web image file types and structure
• Overview of vector and raster web graphics
• Inserting images
• Adjusting Image Position with CSS classes
• Working with Dreamweaver's Insert Panel
• Using Adobe Bridge with Dreamweaver
• Working with non-web image file types
• Working with Photoshop Smart Objects
• Copying and pasting images from Fireworks and Photoshop
• Inserting images by Drag-and-Drop
• Optimizing images with the Properties Inspector
• Modify images within Dreamweaver

Working with Navigating (Hyperlinks)

• Overview of hyperlink structure and coding
• Creating internal hyperlinks
• Creating image-based links
• Creating external links
• Setting up email links
• Targeting page elements with hyperlinks
• Specifying link locations: _blank, _parent, _self and _top
• Working with Spry navigation components
• Converting Spry navigation components to Library Items
• Checking pages for broken links

Adding Interactivity

• Learning about Dreamweaver behaviors
• Working with Dreamweaver behaviors
• Creating a swap image effect
• Applying behaviors to text and hyperlinks
• Inserting a Spry Accordion widget

Working with Flash

• Understanding Flash
• Adding Flash animation to a page
• Adding Flash video to a page

Publishing to the Web

• Defining a remote site
• Setting up a remote FTP site
• Establishing a remote site on a local or remote web server
• Cloaking folders and files
• Putting your site online
• Synchronizing local and remote sites
• Monitoring file sizes and download times
• Synchronizing files both locally and remotely
• Updating and maintaining your website after it's published

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