Course Description
Adobe Dreamweaver CS4 is a one day course, to introduce creating and maintaining basic websites, using Adobe Dreamweaver's powerful yet friendly interface.
The course content to the right is that which will be covered. Attendees are encouraged to ask specific questions, taking the course into more or less detail on any of these topics plus others, where required.
Who should attend?
Adobe Dreamweaver CS4 is for people wishing to use Dreamweaver CS4 to build intuitive, attractive and accessible web sites.
Prerequisites
Students should have the following prerequisite knowledge prior to attending this course:
•Basic Mac OS X knowledge
•Basic knowledge of creating a web site, not necessarily using Dreamweaver
Costs
£275* per trainee. Training at GBM includes refreshments, a light lunch, course notes or a suitable reference book.
*All Prices exclude VAT
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Introduction
Dreamweaver interface and tools; Creating a website; Getting help.
Techniques for basic web sites
Adding content; Controlling document structure; Making lists; Adding rules; Adding special characters; Working with and formatting text; Inserting line breaks; Setting font attributes; Changing background and link colours; Inserting a rollover; Using images as backgrounds; Using Flash; Adding text links; Adding links to graphics; Email links.
Site Set-Up
Creating a new site; Importing an existing site; Creating new files and folders; Specifying local folder information; Specifying remote host information; Connecting and uploading to a server; Updating and deleting files; Using the Assets panel; Adding assets to the Favourite list; Grouping assets.
Images and Graphics
Inserting images; Assets panel; Editing images; External image editor; Image placeholders; Image rollovers.
CS4 Features
Live View; Adobe Photoshop Smart Objects; Related Files and Code Navigator.
Introducing Forms
Forms overview; Positioning Form Elements, text fields, password fields, multiple line fields, checkboxes,radio buttons etc; Validating a form; Forms and CSS.
Site Maintenance
Testing your site; Maintaining your files and folders; Connecting to a remote site; Synchronising files.
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