Macromedia Dreamweaver MX 2004: Website Development (3 days)
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Description
Macromedia Dreamweaver MX 2004: Website Development is a 3-day course that provides web designers with the knowledge and hands-on practice they need to build and manage professional websites using Dreamweaver MX 2004.
Audience
This course is for people new to web design and development and want to use Dreamweaver MX 2004 to build intuitive, attractive and accessible websites.
Course Outline
Unit 1: Introducing Macromedia Dreamweaver MX 2004: Website Development
- About the course
- Course objectives
- Course prerequisites
- Static page architecture
Unit 2: Getting Started
- Introduction to Dreamweaver MX 2004
- Creating a local site
- Creating a new HTML page
- Using development views
- Previewing pages
- Setting document properties
Unit 3: Adding Content to a Site
- Adding content
- Importing text files
- Importing Microsoft Word and Excel content
- Controlling document structure
- Creating headings, paragraphs and lists
- Adding special characters
Unit 4: Formatting Text
- Formatting text on the web
- Changing the font properties
- Introducing Cascading Style Sheets
- Fonts and class styles
- Creating styles
- Creating tag selectors
- Creating advanced styles
- Exporting CSS style definitions
- Attaching external style sheets
- Creating a new style sheet
Unit 5: Working with Graphics
- Graphics on web pages
- Placing graphics on the page
- Accessibility setting
- Modifying image properties
- Image editing in Dreamweaver
- Roundtrip editing with Fireworks
- Optimizing an image
- Adding Flash movies
Unit 6: Navigating Your Site
- Hypertext links
- Linking to files in your site
- Linking to sites
- Linking to named anchors
- Adding e-mail links
- Linking from images
- Linking from an image map
- Creating a navigation bar
- Creating a jump menu
Unit 7: Designing Page Layout
- Understanding page layout
- Structuring page layout with tables
- Importing tabular data
- Using table layout view
- Using layers for layout
- Adding the Show-Hide layers behavior
- Converting tables to layers
- Converting layers to tables
Unit 8: Using Libraries and Templates
- Creating library items
- Placing library items on a page
- Creating site templates
- Applying a template to an existing page
Unit 9: Creating Forms
- Creating a form
- Form processing
- Setting focus in a form
Unit 10: Testing, Maintenance, and Uploading
- Checking accessibility, links and browser compatibility
- Maintaining files
- Using the Integrated File Browser
- Connecting to a remote site
- Cloaking folders and files
- Uploading files
- Synchronizing files
