Elstree Film Studios - Training Courses - Complete Dreamweaver Web Development
During this comprehensive course we will provide you with the in-depth knowledge needed to enable you to perform creative and professional web design techniques. This process is unique in that you have the option to work on your own material, or you can use one of our commercially created designs. In either case, you will finish with a commercially useable and search engine friendly web site.
The main aim of the course is to provide you with the ability to produce accurate, commercial standard websites with ease. The course has a strong emphasis on design, accessibility and search engine optimisation techniques whilst giving you a clear understanding of HTML syntax and the correct usage of CSS (Cascading Style Sheets). You will also learn valuable real world hits and tips garnered from over years experience in the web design and development field.
CSS layout (Cascading Style Sheets) is a means of separating the content of a document from the style and layout of that document, making the HTML far cleaner. This is useful for a number of reasons: firstly, you can change the layout of the whole CSS website by altering only one file (the .css document) and you have a much greater control over the design. Secondly, CSS websites are far more search engine friendly and thirdly, you can make different CSS versions of the same page for different HTML readers i.e. PDA's, Mobile Phones, Web TV, Braille readers. The course explores all of these advantages.
This course assumes no prior knowledge of HTML, CSS or Dreamweaver and we will provide you with the advanced training that will help you become an excellent web designer.
We recommend that if you are entirely unfamiliar with HTML, that you attend our HTML Introduction course prior to this course.
Duration: 3 days.
Prerequisites: This course is for beginners i.e. designers, developers and those new to Dreamweaver who want to learn the interface and how to use features in a detailed and efficient manner. However, we recommend that if you are entirely unfamiliar with HTML, that you attend our
HTML Introduction course prior to this course.
Location: 21st Century New Media Ltd (Production Offices), Elstree Film Studios, Shenley Road, Borehamwood, Hertfordshire, WD6 1JG. [
Click here for a map]
Times: 10.00am to 4.30pm. For security reasons, further details are only provided upon booking.
Courseware: The book which accompanies this course is posted to you upon payment confirmation.
Accommodation & Transport: Details of local accomodation and transport can be found
here.
Further assistance: Our
FAQ help page contains the answers to many popular questions. Alternatively please call
0844 844 2428 to arrange to speak to our training manager.
COURSE CONTENT
Introducing Dreamweaver
- Understanding the course
- Reviewing the course objectives and prerequisites
- Reviewing the course format
- Outlining the course content
- Understanding static page architecture
Getting Started
- Introducing Dreamweaver
- Learning the interface
- Defining a local site
- Creating a website
Adding Content to a Site
- Adding content
- Controlling document structure
- Making lists
- Adding horizontal rules
- Adding special characters
Formatting with Cascading Style Sheets
- Formatting text
- Introducing cascading style sheets
- Creating styles
- Exporting CSS rule definitions
- Creating class styles
- Attaching external style sheets
- Creating advanced styles
- Creating a new external style sheet
- Displaying styles
- Understanding cascading order and inheritance of styles
- Creating internal styles with the Property inspector
Working with Graphics
- Using graphics on web pages
- Placing graphics on the page
- Modifying image properties
- Editing images
- Doing roundtrip editing with Fireworks
- Customizing the Insert bar
- Adding Flash content
- Adding Flash Video
Navigating Your Site
- Understanding site navigation
- Linking to files in your site
- Linking to sites
- Linking to named anchors
- Adding e-mail links
- Linking from images
- Creating a jump menu
Designing Page Layouts with CSS
- Understanding page layout
- Using layers for layout
- Adding CSS to layers
- Using absolute and relative positioning
- Designing with DIV's
- Designing navigation links with CSS
- Importing tabular data
- Using table layout view
Using Libraries and Templates
- Using site library items
- Creating site templates
- Defining editable regions
- Using templates
- Applying a template to an existing page
- Modifying templates
Creating Forms
- Understanding forms
- Processing a form
- Setting focus in a form
- Validating a form
Testing, Maintenance, and Uploading
- Testing your site
- Maintaining your files and folders
- Connecting to a remote site
- Synchronizing files
