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Basic Dreamweaver Training

1 Hour Daily

Duration:- ... Months

Dreamweaver Training Overview

Adobe Dreamweaver CS3 is the leading Web development tool for Web professionals. After Dreamweaver training class teaches attendees everything they need to know in order to successfully build their first sites with Dreamweaver.

Dreamweaver Training Objectives

  1. To master creating Web pages in Dreamweaver CS3. Attendees learn how to lay out text, position images, create hyperlinks, build tables, and more.
  2. To learn how to manage Web sites and multi-person Web development projects using Dreamweaver CS3.

Dreamweaver Training Outline

  1. What Is Dreamweaver CS3?
    1. HTML vs. XHTML
    2. Roundtrip XHTML
    3. Do You Need to Learn XHTML to Use Dreamweaver?
    4. What Does XHTML Do?
    5. What Does XHTML Look Like?
    6. File-Naming Conventions
    7. File Name Extensions
    8. What Is CSS?
    9. What Does CSS Look Like?
    10. What Is XML?
    11. What Is DHTML?
    12. What Is JavaScript?
    13. What Is a Web Application?
    14. Extending Dreamweaver
  2. Exploring the Interface
    1. Touring the Interface
    2. Setting a Default Workspace
    3. Saving Workspace Layouts
    4. Defining a Default Browser
    5. Using Shortcut Keys
  3. Managing Your Sites
    1. What Is a Local Root Folder?
    2. Defining a Site
    3. Understanding Relative and Absolute URLs
    4. Observing Links to Relative and Absolute URLs
    5. Managing Files and Folders
    6. Understanding Path Structure
    7. Understanding Site Root and Document Relative Links
    8. Creating a Site Map
    9. Creating a Site from Scratch
    10. Deleting a Site Definition
  4. Learning the Basics
    1. Creating and Saving a New Document
    2. Understanding the Significance of Default Documents
    3. Setting Page Titles
    4. Inserting Images
    5. Inserting Text
    6. Aligning Text and Images
    7. Creating Links with Images and Text
    8. Inserting <meta> Tags
  5. Linking
    1. Linking with Point to File
    2. Linking to New Source Files
    3. Creating E-mail Links
    4. Creating Named Anchors
    5. Linking to Files
  6. Working with Cascading Style Sheets
    1. Understanding the CSS Specifications
    2. Understanding the Cascading Part of Style Sheets
    3. Exploring the Anatomy of a Style Sheet
    4. Understanding CSS and Page Properties
    5. Using the Page Properties Dialog Box
    6. Understanding the Types of Style Sheets
    7. Exporting and Linking External CSS Files
    8. Using the CSS Styles Panel
    9. Understanding CSS Selectors
    10. Understanding Type Selectors
    11. Creating Type Selectors
    12. Understanding ID Selectors
    13. Creating ID Selectors
    14. Understanding Class Selectors
    15. Creating Class Selectors
    16. Creating CSS Rollovers with Pseudo-Classes
  7. Working with Typography
    1. Leaving the <font> Tag Behind
    2. Using Valid XHTML Typographic Elements
    3. Formatting Text with the Property Inspector
    4. What Measurement Should You Use?
    5. Managing White Space with Margins, Padding, and Line Height
    6. Using Font Lists
    7. Aligning Text
    8. Using Ordered, Unordered, and Definition Lists
    9. What Is Flash Text?
    10. Creating Flash Text
  8. Working with Tables
    1. What Is a Table?
    2. Creating and Adding Content to a Table
    3. Changing the Border of a Table with XHTML
    4. Changing the Border of a Table with CSS
    5. Adding Color to Tables
    6. Aligning Table Content
    7. Sorting a Table
    8. Setting Table Widths
    9. Creating Rounded-Corner Tables
  9. Using Layout Tools
    1. Using Tracing Images, AP Divs, and Tables for Layout
    2. Applying a Tracing Image
    3. Adding AP Divs
    4. What Makes an AP <div> Absolutely Positioned?
    5. What Is the Layout Mode?
    6. Using Layout Tables and Layout Cells
    7. Working with Layout Table Widths
  10. Designing for Devices
    1. What’s a Device?
    2. Attaching a Printer-Friendly Style Sheet
    3. Styling for Print
    4. Accessing Adobe Device Central
  11. Adding Rollover Images
    1. Following Rollover Rules
    2. Creating a Simple Rollover
    3. Creating Disjointed Rollovers
    4. Creating Navigation Bars with Multiple Rollover States
    5. What Are Flash Buttons?
    6. Creating Flash Buttons
  12. Using XHTML
    1. Viewing the Markup
    2. Reviewing Your Options in Code View
    3. Editing in Code View
    4. Using the Code Toolbar
    5. Using Code Collapse
    6. Using the Quick Tag Editor
    7. Using the Tag Editor and Tag Chooser
    8. Working with Snippets