Complete Dreamweaver

Learn how to Design and develop modern, responsive websites and get the most from Dreamweaver

75 lessons
5 hours 27 minutes

Overview

What does the course cover?

The course takes users from building basic web sites – working with text, paragraphs and styles to building flexible layouts using CSS, templates and libraries and introduces the powerful Adobe Spry framework.

Aims

Why take this course?

As web design skills continue to increase in demand – the need for skills to create more powerful and versatile websites and to maintain them becomes ever more important. On completion of this course you’ll be able to design and build web pages incorporating templates, style sheets and frames.

Audience

Who should attend?

Professional designers familiar with DTP or Graphics software needing to get to grips with this powerful web design tool. Strong Windows skills are assumed but no previous web skills required.

Course preview

Each course contains high quality, professional, Video lessons, Downloadable exercise files and Real-world templates for you to use.

Simple interface

Video lessons

Downloadable files

Course detail and sample lessons

Section 1: Introduction

Lesson 1: Overview

Lesson 2: Overview of Dreamweaver Interface

Lesson 3: Overview of Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)

Lesson 4: Creating a Site

Lesson 5: Creating pages in a Site

Lesson 6: Review of HTML basics

Section 2: Basic Formatting

Lesson 1: Overview

Lesson 2: Creating Headings

Lesson 3: Applying Bold and Italics to content

Lesson 4: Ordered and Unordered Lists

Lesson 5: Fundamentals of creating a CSS file and applying styles

Lesson 6: Using embedded styles on a page

Lesson 7: Chapter recap

Section 3: Hyperlinks

Lesson 1: Overview

Lesson 2: Creating links between pages on the same site

Lesson 3: Creating links to pages on the World Wide Web

Lesson 4: Hyperlinks that send an e-Mail

Lesson 5: Hyperlinks to a position on a page

Lesson 6: Styling hyperlinks using CSS

Lesson 7: Chapter recap

Section 4: Working with Images

Lesson 1: Overview

Lesson 2: Adding images to a site and a page

Lesson 3: Adding images using drag and drop within Dreamweaver

Lesson 4: Images as hyperlinks and Image Maps

Lesson 5: Creating rollover images

Lesson 6: Using images as backgrounds to content

Lesson 7: Using images to replace the default bullet point in lists

Lesson 8: Inserting Flash content onto our pages

Lesson 9: Chapter recap

Section 5: Tables

Lesson 1: Overview

Lesson 2: Adding a HTML table to a page

Lesson 3: Modifying table properties on a HTML page

Lesson 4: Styling tables using CSS

Lesson 5: Chapter recap

Section 6: Forms

Lesson 1: Overview

Lesson 2: Basics of inserting a form onto a page

Lesson 3: Basics of form controls

Lesson 4: Building the Enquiries form

Lesson 5: Adding checkboxes and radio buttons

Lesson 6: Adding lists, buttons and labels to the form

Lesson 7: Using online form submission services

Lesson 8: Chapter recap

Section 7: Templates

Lesson 1: Overview

Lesson 2: Reasons for using Templates

Lesson 3: Creating a Template

Lesson 4: Adding Editable Regions and creating pages from our Template

Lesson 5: Adding Optional Regions and setting Template properties

Lesson 6: Rebuilding our site using our Template

Lesson 7: Adding Repeating Regions and Repeating Tables

Lesson 8: Chapter recap

Section 8: Layouts

Lesson 1: Overview

Lesson 2: Designing our layout on paper

Lesson 3: Review of CSS formatting

Lesson 4: Creating a basic layout using the div tag, style ids and floats in CSS

Lesson 5: Creating our site layout

Lesson 6: Other uses of layouts

Lesson 7: Dreamweavers own built-in layouts

Lesson 8: Chapter recap

Section 9: Spry

Lesson 1: Overview

Lesson 2: Adding a Spry Menu

Lesson 3: Spry Menu component and CSS

Lesson 4: Spry form field validators

Lesson 5: Other Spry components

Lesson 6: Chapter recap

Section 10: Publishing

Lesson 1: Overview

Lesson 2: Publishing our site to a web server using ftp

Lesson 3: Getting an existing site from a web server

Lesson 4: Other publishing options

Section 11: General Dreamweaver Housekeeping

Lesson 1: Overview

Lesson 2: Troubleshooting publishing

Lesson 3: Assets Panel

Lesson 4: History Panel

Lesson 5: Image resizing issues

Lesson 6: Link Checker

Lesson 7: Code Navigator

Skills you’ll learn

What you’ll be able to do after the course

Understand web graphic formats
Create sites using CSS
Work with frames and frame-sets
Use layers effectively
Use Adobe’s Spry framework

How you can apply these skills

What you’ll be able to use these skills for

Build fast web pages
Build interactive forms
Create and edit websites
Design style sheets
Use styles sheets to maintain consistent look of web pages

Certification

When you pass you will receive an internationally recognised accreditation certificate like this:

IACT_Specialist

What’s next?

Upon completion, you can move onto our other Web Design courses such as Flash and HTML & CSS.

Careers that require these skills at this level?

Illustrator is used in practically every Web design agency. Any Web Design role will require you to be proficient to this level.

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