Dreamweaver training course

Dreamweaver training – 2 days – £425 + vat – dates

Dreamweaver training uk

This Dreamweaver training course is a practical introduction to using Dreamweaver efficiently to manage web sites and create pages which conform to current web standards.

This Dreamweaver training course forms part of our Web Design Week, comprising of our 1 day Web Design course, our 2 day Dreamweaver course and our 2 day Photoshop for Web Graphics course

All three of these training courses can be booked together to form a comprehensive week of web design training for just £725 (£1,045 if booked separately).

Macromedia Dreamweaver Training Course Objectives

During this Dreamweaver Training Course delegates learn to use the diverse functionality of Dreamweaver to streamline work processes and create accessible, standards-compliant pages. This two-day Dreamweaver training course covers planning, creating, editing, publishing and site management.

Dreamweaver Training Course Content

Publishing for the Web basics

  • Introduction & overview
  • How HTML and the WWW work.
  • Current standards
  • Design Strategies
  • Why index.html?

Overview of Dreamweaver

  • Interface overview
  • Preferences Overview
  • Setting up XHTML compliance and validation
  • Setting the document type and default encoding
  • Defining a site
  • Creating a site structure
  • Setting up multiple testing browsers
  • Previewing pages in the browser

Editing HEAD Content

  • Keywords
  • Descriptions
  • Author

Links

  • Creating internal and external links
  • Creating e-mail links
  • Images as links
  • Links to PDF, Word and other documents

Lists

  • Creating ordered and unordered lists

Tables

  • Creating data and structural tables
  • Building accessible structures

Importing Content into Dreamweaver

  • Types of media you can import
  • Importing graphics
  • Importing Flash content

Behaviours

  • Behaviour basics
  • Buttons and Roll-overs
  • Limitations

Spry Framework

  • Adding Spry widgets to a page
  • Adding Spry effects to a page

Streamlining your Work Process

  • Creating Dreamweaver templates C
  • reating, managing and editing library items
  • Using Dreamweaver preset documents and style sheets

CSS

  • What is CSS and how is it beneficial
  • Defining overall page properties
  • Using CSS to control font formatting
  • Create an external style sheet
  • CSS layouts in Dreamweaver
  • Formatting links
  • Formatting page items
  • Formatting lists

FTP

  • Uploading your site
  • Using check in/out

What Next?

  • Dreamweaver Extensions
  • Online resources and support

 

Dreamweaver Course Prerequisites

All delegates attending dreamweaver training must be confident with Windows or Macintosh environments, including creating, moving and deleting files and folders and use of web browsers.

Familiarity with the internet, websites and web terminology.

Silicon Beach Training recommends that all delegates familiarise themselves with the Dreamweaver interface, or that of a similar package before attending this dreamweaver training course.

Trial can be downloaded from http://www.macromedia.com/software/dreamweaver.

Book this Dreamweaver training course one to one for £895 + vat

Dreamweaver Training Recommended Reading

Dreamweaver CS3 for Dummies - J. Warner – buy from amazon

Dreamweaver CS3: The Missing Manual - David Sawyer McFarland – buy from amazon

Dreamweaver CS3  – buy from amazon

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