Web Training : Dreamweaver : London, UK

Training > Dreamweaver Introduction

Dreamweaver Introductory Level
Course Description

An introduction to the essentials of web building using Dreamweaver, focusing on technical skills and good practice.

Dreamweaver made by Macromedia is the industry leading web page authoring software, ideal for beginners and experienced developers alike. It has an easy to use WYSIWYG (what you see is what you get) interface and creates the required HTML code for you, although HTML editing is also possible. Dreamweaver also has good file and content management features.

If the aims or topics you require are not listed in this description, please contact Christina to see if the training can be adapted to include them.

training@xtinalamb.co.uk

This course will enable delegates to:

Identify and address issues for designers and visitors
Create layouts with tables
Plan and build navigation into pages
Add interactive elements such as rollover images
Format and update pages with Cascading Style Sheets
Publish sites with FTP

Suitable for delegates who wish to focus on the practical and technical issues of building and managing sites, using an authoring package for fast results rather than learning the HTML language and writing the code themselves.

This course has also been found useful by managers and marketing executives who may not be expecting to build sites but are keen to understand what's involved in web development, in order to gain an informed perspective on the tasks involved and achieve better communication with team members.

Prerequisites: Familiarity with basic computer skills on either Windows or Mac platform is necessary and using the Internet is advisable. Experience of writing simple HTML code would also be very helpful, but it is possible to adapt the course to provide some HTML familiarity.

Course Prices

Two day course
Course Topics

Day One:

Web Design Overview
Software and hardware issues
Issues for designers and visitors
Profiling visitors with web statistics

The Dreamweaver Interface
What can Dreamweaver do?
Introduction to palettes and windows
Background colours and page properties
Assigning browsers and previewing pages
Understanding the role of temporary files

Text and Images
Formatting and styling text
Placing graphics on a page
Resizing graphics
Aligning graphics with text
Creating lists
Soft returns and paragraphs
Importing text
Special Characters

File Management
Planning file management
Naming conventions and version control
Defining a site

Navigation
Creating links and anchors
Assigning link colours
email links
Opening links in new windows
Image Maps
File paths
Checking links

Day Two:

Managing Layouts
Layout concepts
Controlling layouts with Tables
Pixels vs Percentages
Troubleshooting tables
Layers

Cascading Style Sheets
Formatting with CSS

Publishing
Using FTP to upload a site
Search engine issues
Marketing issues
Keeping clean HTML code

Interactivity
Concept of authoring with Javascript
Creating Rollovers
Adding interactivity with Behaviours