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Advanced Adobe Dreamweaver CS3

1 Hour Daily

Duration:- ... Months

Dreamweaver Training Overview

Appextech Advanced Adobe Dreamweaver CS3 training class teaches attendees the skills they need to make their sites more interactive with forms, behaviors, multimedia, and Ajax. In addition, attendees learn how to use templates, library items, and automation to eliminate redundant coding and work and to Appextech the pace of web site development. Finally, attendees learn how to make their sites accessible.

Dreamweaver Training Objectives

  1. To learn how to make your site more interactive using forms and behaviors
  2. To master how to reuse page layouts and page sections using templates and library items
  3. To explore how to use Dreamweaver’s Spry library in order to incorporate Ajax into your Dreamweaver sites
  4. To discover how to make your site accessible to individuals with visual and other impairments by using Dreamweaver’s accessibility features

Dreamweaver Training Outline

  1. Working with Forms
    1. Using the Forms Group of the Insert Bar
    2. Working with Text Fields and Text Areas
    3. Working with Check Boxes and Radio Buttons
    4. Working with Lists and Menus
    5. Adding Submit and Reset Buttons
  2. Applying Behaviors
    1. Using the Open Browser Window Behavior
    2. Using the Popup Message Behavior
    3. Using the Validate Form Behavior
    4. Getting More Behaviors
  3. Editing Images
    1. Setting External Image Editor Preferences
    2. Editing Images with Built-in Tools
    3. Roundtrip Editing to and from Photoshop or Fireworks
    4. Copying and Pasting from Photoshop into Dreamweaver
  4. Using Templates and Library Items
    1. Seeing Templates in Action
    2. Creating a New Template
    3. Applying Templates to Existing Documents
    4. Modifying a Template
    5. Adding Repeating Regions
    6. Working with Repeating Regions
    7. Adding Optional Regions
    8. Modifying Template Properties
    9. Knowing When to Use Library Items
    10. Creating a Library Item
    11. Modifying a Library Item
  5. Automating Repetitive Tasks
    1. What Is the History Panel?
    2. Using the History Panel for Undo/Redo
    3. Saving History Steps as Commands
    4. Using Find and Replace
  6. Understanding Accessibility
    1. Understanding the W3C Accessibility Guidelines
    2. Setting Accessibility Preferences
    3. Inserting Accessible Images
    4. Inserting Accessible Tables
    5. Inserting Accessible Form Objects
  7. Inserting Media Objects
    1. Downloading Plug-Ins
    2. Linking to Sounds
    3. Embedding Multimedia Files
    4. Inserting Flash Content
    5. Inserting Flash Video Content
  8. Using Spry Tools
    1. What Is Ajax?
    2. What Is Spry?
    3. Adding an XML Data Source
    4. Adding a Spry Table
    5. Adding Spry Detail Regions
    6. Using Spry Widgets
    7. Adding Spry Form Fields
  9. Getting Your Site Online
    1. Hosting Your Pages with Tripod for Free
    2. Signing Up with Tripod
    3. Setting FTP Connection Information
    4. What Is FTP?
    5. Putting Files onto the Web Server
    6. Running Site Reports
    7. Using the Reports Dialog Box