Dreamweaver Training

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).

We also provide private and in-company Dreamweaver courses. Call +44 (0) 1273 622272 to discuss.

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 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.
• We recommend that you familiarise themselves with the Dreamweaver interface, or that of a similar package before attending this Dreamweaver course.  The trial can be downloaded from http://www.adobe.com

What our clients think about our Dreamweaver course

A very good introduction to Dreamweaver & how it works.  Covered all I wanted to know about HTML language and also allowed me to understand how style sheets function.

Gemma Shaw - ITW Limited

I really enjoyed the Web Design and Dreamweaver training I did last month and the HTML course last week. I felt the tutors I had were extremely friendly, knowledgeable and patient (important with technical things as it is very easy to feel confused and then a bit intimidated) and the atmosphere was very friendly overall.

The tutors were really careful not to use technical jargon or acronyms and to never go too fast until all the class have caught up. They managed the different levels in the class very well, supporting those that were a little behind and needed extra help while simultaneously setting other tasks for those that were faster. The resources they recommended as we went where very helpful and the course notes were excellent.

Melanie Dearing - Sussex Coast College Hastings

Free Dreamweaver Resources

• Full Dreamweaver Tutorial - Step by Step
• Using Dreamweaver with Wordpress, Joomla and Drupal

Dreamweaver Course Content

Publishing for the Web using Dreamweaver - 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 in 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 in Dreamweaver

• Creating data tables

Adding Images in Dreamweaver

• Adding images to pages

Using Dreamweaver to create CSS styles

• 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 in Dreamweaver

• 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 in Dreamweaver

• 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 Course Recommended Reading

Adobe Dreamweaver CS5 Classroom in a Book (Classroom in a Book (Adobe)

Dreamweaver CS5 All-in-one For Dummies (For Dummies (Computers))