Macromedia Dreamweaver is offered as a 3-day course. All classes begin at 9am.

Course Fee: $1,195 per student

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Syllabus

Day 1

• "Roundtrip" HTML
• Dreamweaver Resources
• Document window
• Objects palette
• Previewing sites in browsers

Defining a Site

• Importing an existing site
• The Site Window
• Relative and absolute linking

Basic Web Page Construction

• Creating an index.html file
• Backgrounds
• Titles
• Images and alternate text

Hyperlinks

• Creating and editing links
• The "Point to file" tool
• Link history
• Email links

Typography

• Font face tags and limitations
• Using standard Windows and Mac fonts
• Creating font lists
• Using proportional font sizes
• Paragraph tags and headers
• Aligning text and images

Tables

• Creating and editing HTML tables
• Using the Tag Selector with tables
• Table borders
• Cell padding vs. cell spacing
• Table cell content and effect on different browsers
• Sorting table content

Day 2

Layout

• Layout techniques overview
• Tracing images
• Creating layers
• Viewing and selecting layers
• Converting tables to layers
• Converting layers to tables

Frames

• Intro to the frameset
• Pros/cons of using frames
• Creating the frameset
• Creating and modifying frame dimensions

Rollovers

• Simple JavaScript rollovers
• Difference between Java and JavaScript
• Using the Swap Image behavior
• Multiple-Event rollovers

Cascading Style Sheets

• Intro to the CSS standard
• Internal and external style sheets
• Redefining an HTML tag
• Using CSS for consistency of style
• Custom class tags
• CSS Selectors

HTML

• Using DW to learn basic HTML
• Code view
• Split screen view
• Quick Tag editor

Day 3

Forms

• Creating forms
• Form objects
• Text fields, List/Menu
• Check boxes vs. radio buttons

Behaviors

• Built-in behaviors
• Check Browser behavior
• Status Bar behavior
• Form Text Field behavior
• Opening a new Browser Window

DHTML

• Adding animation and interactivity
• DHTML browser limitations
• Dragging layers behavior
• DHTML Timeline
• Animation

Automation

• Speeding repetitive tasks
• History panel
• Copying and pasting blocks of actions
• Customizing the Object Panel
• Reloading extensions
• Creating images for customized objects

Templates and Libraries

• Using templates for design consistency
• Modifying an existing template
• Creating a new template
• Defining editable areas
• Using Page Properties and CSS with templates
• Creating new files from templates

Plug-Ins

• Situations requiring third-party plugins
• Downloading plugins
• Using inline plugins
• Working with web sound formats

FTP

• Creating a server account
• FTP Preferences and remote info
• Transferring files to a server
• Incremental updating
• Site reports