Introduction to Dreamweaver 8 training

Course Number: DW-100
Duration: 2 days
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Dreamweaver Training Overview

Adobe Dreamweaver 8 is the leading Web development tool for Web professionals. In just 2 days, this Dreamweaver 8 training class teaches attendees everything they need to know in order to successfully build their first sites with Dreamweaver.

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

Prior experience using the Web is required. This course does not require knowledge of HTML, but attendees with HTML knowledge will find Dreamweaver much easier to use in both the short- and long-run. Toward this end, we would be delighted to teach a one-day HTML primer immediately prior to this course.

Hands-on/Lecture Ratio

This Dreamweaver 8 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 8 training class receive a copy of Peachpit Press's Macromedia 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 or later (course can also be taught using Dreamweaver MX 2004 or MX)
This class can be taught for Windows or Macintosh audiences

Dreamweaver Training Objectives

To master creating Web pages in Dreamweaver 8. Attendees learn how to lay out text, position images, create hyperlinks, build tables, and more.
To learn how to manage Web sites and multi-person Web development projects using Dreamweaver 8.

Dreamweaver Training Outline

Introduction

Key background

Architecture of Web sites and Web applications
The roles of client-side technologies such as HTML, Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), JavaScript, DHTML, and Flash
How server-side technologies such as ColdFusion, ASP, ASP.NET, PHP, and JSP can be used to integrate databases and other applications with your Web site
Mark-up languages: the roles of HTML, XML, and XHTML

HTML overview

Role of tags
Beginning and ending your document
The role of <head>...</head> and <body>...</body>
Formatting text and adding hyperlinks
Discussion of whether you need to know HTML in order to use Dreamweaver 8

Understanding the Dreamweaver 8 interface

Welcome panel
Insert bar
Property inspector
Launcher (and how to customize it)
Document toolbar
Panels and Panel groups (includes how to detach, dock, and move panels)
Design, Code, and Code-Design views
Preferences

Site control

The role of sites
Setting a local root folder
Defining a site
Relative and absolute links
File and folder management
Understanding path structure
Using the file browser
Creating a site map
Creating a site from scratch

Basic page creation

Defining a site
Creating and saving a new document
File names
File titles
Inserting and formatting text
Inserting and positioning images
Aligning images and text
Modifying page properties
Using Dreamweaver color pickers to color text, links, page background, and more

Hyperlinks and image maps

Linking to other pages in your site
Linking to other sites
Linking to email
Linking to other points on the current page
Linking to specific points in other pages
Creating image maps (graphics where you can click on different regions of the graphic to go to different pages)

Typography

Using CSS versus using the <font> tag
Adding and formatting HTML text
Controlling font type and size
Ordered and unordered lists
Color schemes
Applying HTML styles

Tables

Overview of using tables to display data
Overview of using tables to create multi-column layouts
Inserting a table
Changing a table's border, cellpadding, and cellspacing
Sorting the table
Changing the color scheme
Creating and modifying a table
Aligning images and text with tables
Sizing individual columns and the table as a whole using pixels and using percentages
Nesting tables
Using tables to assemble images from "tiles"

Layout

Overview of tracing images, layers, and tables as techniques for positioning content
Applying a tracing image
Adding layers
Converting layers to tables and vice versa
Using Layout View to facilitate easier page layout via tables

Error checking and uploading your work

Checking for HTML errors and compatibility issues
Checking for broken links
Uploading your work to a local server
Uploading your work via FTP
Synchronize your local copy of the site's files with the remote server
Using Check In/Check Out to facilitate multi-person site development
Issues to watch out for when managing a site's content

Conclusion