Advanced Dreamweaver 8 training

Course Number: DW-101
Duration: 2 days
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Dreamweaver Training Overview

Accelebrate's Advanced Adobe Dreamweaver training class teaches attendees the skills they need to make their sites more interactive with rollover images, forms, JavaScript behaviors, Fireworks graphics, and more. In addition, attendees will master using Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) to more precisely format their pages and to apply design choices made on one page across multiple pages on their site.

Location and Pricing

Most Accelebrate courses are taught on-site at our clients' locations worldwide for groups of 3 or more attendees and are customized to their specific needs. Please visit our client list to see organizations for whom we have recently delivered training. These courses can also be delivered as live, private online classes for groups that are geographically dispersed or wish to save on the instructor's or students' travel expenses. To receive a customized proposal and price quote private training at your site or online, please contact us.

In addition, some courses are available as live, online classes for individuals. To see a schedule of online courses, please visit http://www.accelebrate.com/online_training/?action=category&page=dreamweaver.

Dreamweaver Training Prerequisites

Accelebrate's Introduction to Adobe Dreamweaver CS6 training class or equivalent experience.

Hands-on/Lecture Ratio

This Dreamweaver^® training class is 70% hands-on, 30% lecture, with the longest lecture segments lasting for 15 minutes. Students "learn by doing," with immediate opportunities to apply the material they learn to real-world problems.

Dreamweaver Training Materials

All students in this Dreamweaver training class receive a copy of Peachpit Press's Adobe Dreamweaver Hands-on Training and related courseware.

Software Needed on Each Student PC

Firefox 2.0 or later or Internet Explorer 6 or later
Dreamweaver 8, CS3, or later (course can also be taught using Dreamweaver MX 2004 or MX)
Fireworks 8, CS3, or later
This class can be taught for Windows or Macintosh audiences

Dreamweaver Training Objectives

To learn how to make your site more interactive by using rollover images, forms, and JavaScript behaviors
To master formatting your pages with Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)
To learn the basics of creating custom graphics for your pages with Fireworks

Dreamweaver Training Outline

Introduction
Image rollovers

Rollover rules
Preloading rollover images
Creating a simple rollover
Creating animated rollovers
Creating pointer rollovers
Creating multiple-event rollovers
Creating Flash buttons
Dynamically generating a navigation bar that has rollover behavior

Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)

Support for CSS
Levels of CSS
Linked, embedded, and inline style sheets
The cascading part of style sheets
Types of style sheets
Anatomy of a style sheet
Redefining HTML with style sheets
Defining a custom class
Using selectors to group tags
Affecting links with selectors
Linking to a style sheet

Accomplishing key HTML tasks

Viewing and editing code
Using the Quick Tag Editor
Cleaning up HTML
Cleaning up HTML imported from Microsoft Word

Forms

The two pieces of a form:

The form itself
The server-side code that processes the form

Inserting a form
Laying out a form using tables
Creating form elements

Text fields and text areas
Hidden fields
Password fields
Checkboxes and radio buttons
Selection lists
File fields
Jump menus

Understanding GET vs. POST for form submission

Plug-ins and media

Linking and embedding sounds
Inserting Flash and Shockwave content
Inserting video

JavaScript behaviors

What is JavaScript?
Understanding the JavaScript Document Object Model (DOM)
Mastering the most important built-in behaviors

Check browser
Check plug-in
Control Shockwave or Flash
Drag layer
Go To URL
Hide Pop-up Menu
Open browser window
Play sound
Popup message
Set text
Swap image/swap image restore
Using Timeline behaviors

Introduction to working with Fireworks

Inserting Fireworks images
Editing a Fireworks image from Dreamweaver
Inserting a simple rollover from Fireworks
Updating Fireworks HTML placed in Dreamweaver
Editing an HTML-based popup menu
Editing an image-based popup menu
Adding a Dreamweaver pop-up menu behavior

Automation

Understanding the History Panel
Using the History Panel for undo/redo
Copying and pasting history
Selecting, downloading, and installing Dreamweaver extensions

Templates and Libraries

The role of templates
Creating a new template
Modifying a template
Applying a template to an existing page
Creating a new page based on a template
Creating a library item
Modifying a library item (and updating all places where this library item is used)

Accessibility

Making image accessible
Making tables accessible
Making form elements accessible
Other accessibility techniques

Conclusion

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