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Dreamweaver Training

2 days - £445 + vat

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This two-day Dreamweaver training course covers planning, creating, editing, publishing and site management. Learn to use the diverse functionality of Dreamweaver to streamline your work process and create accessible, standards-compliant pages.

Dreamweaver training 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 web design training courses can be booked together to form a comprehensive week of web design training for just £795 (£1,105 if booked separately).

Dreamweaver Training Course Objectives

During this Dreamweaver 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 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
• Defining a site
• Setting up XHTML compliance and validation
• Setting the document type and default encoding
• Previewing pages in the browser
• Setting up multiple testing browsers
• Creating a site structure

Formatting Text using Dreamweaver

• Adding paragraphs and line breaks
• Adding headings
• Creating ordered and unordered lists
• Making text bold and italic

Creating Links using Dreamweaver

• Creating links to other pages, to other sites, e-mail links and links within a page
  Images as links
• Links to PDF, Word and other documents

Creating Tables using Dreamweaver

• Creating data tables

Woring with Images in Dreamweaver

• Adding images to pages

CSS in Dreamweaver

• What is CSS and how is it beneficial
• Defining overall page properties
• Formatting text and headings
• Creating an external style sheet
• Using CSS selectors: tag, link, class  and id
• Applying CSS style rules
• Getting text to go next to an image using floating
• Creating a CSS layout using floating
• Using Dreamweaver presets to create tableless layouts

Page Validation and Accessibility

• Validating your page
• Doing an accessibility test

FTP using Dreamweaver

• Uploading your site to your web space
• Using check in/out

Streamlining your Work Process

• Creating, managing and editing library items
• Using snippets

What Next?

• Adding Behaviours
• Using snippets
• Adding Spry widgets and effects
• Dreamweaver templates
• Dreamweaver Extensions#
• Online resources

Dreamweaver Training Course Prerequisites

All delegates attending this dreamweaver course 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 course.

Trial can be downloaded from http://www.adobe.com

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

Dreamweaver Course 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

Download course outline as pdf.

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