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Dreamweaver CS4/5 Foundations (3 days)

Description
Dreamweaver CS4/5 Foundations provides web designers with the knowledge and hands-on practice they need to build and manage professional web sites using Dreamweaver.

Audience
This course is for people new to web design and development and want to use Dreamweaver to build intuitive, attractive and accessible web sites.

Course Outline

  1. What Is Dreamweaver?
    • HTML vs. XHTML
    • Roundtrip XHTML
    • Do You Need to Learn XHTML to Use Dreamweaver?
    • What Does XHTML Do?
    • What Does XHTML Look Like?
    • File-Naming Conventions
    • File Name Extensions
    • What Is CSS?
    • What Does CSS Look Like?
    • What Is XML?
    • What Is DHTML?
    • What Is JavaScript?
    • What Is a Web Application?
    • Extending Dreamweaver
  2. Exploring the Interface
    • Touring the Interface
    • Setting a Default Workspace
    • Saving Workspace Layouts
    • Defining a Default Browser
    • Using Shortcut Keys
  3. Managing Your Sites
    • What Is a Local Root Folder?
    • Exercise 1: Defining a Site
    • Understanding Relative and Absolute URLs
    • Exercise 2: Observing Links to Relative and Absolute URLs
    • Exercise 3: Managing Files and Folders
    • Exercise 4: Understanding Path Structure
    • Understanding Site Root and Document Relative Links
    • Exercise 5: Creating a Site Map
    • Exercise 6: Creating a Site from Scratch
    • Exercise 7: Deleting a Site Definition
  4. Learning the Basics
    • Exercise 1: Creating and Saving a New Document
    • Understanding the Significance of Default Documents
    • Exercise 2: Setting Page Titles
    • Exercise 3: Inserting Images
    • Exercise 4: Inserting Text
    • Exercise 5: Aligning Text and Images
    • Exercise 6: Creating Links with Images and Text
    • Exercise 7: Inserting <meta> Tags
  5. Linking
    • Exercise 1: Linking with Point to File
    • Exercise 2: Linking to New Source Files
    • Exercise 3: Creating E-mail Links
    • Exercise 4: Creating Named Anchors
    • Exercise 5: Linking to Files
  6. Working with Cascading Style Sheets
    • Understanding the CSS Specifications
    • Understanding the Cascading Part of Style Sheets
    • Exploring the Anatomy of a Style Sheet
    • Exercise 1: Understanding CSS and Page Properties
    • Using the Page Properties Dialog Box
    • Understanding the Types of Style Sheets
    • Exercise 2: Exporting and Linking External CSS Files
    • Using the CSS Styles Panel
    • Understanding CSS Selectors
    • Understanding Type Selectors
    • Exercise 3: Creating Type Selectors
    • Understanding ID Selectors
    • Exercise 4: Creating ID Selectors
    • Understanding Class Selectors
    • Exercise 5: Creating Class Selectors
    • Exercise 6: Creating CSS Rollovers with Pseudo-Classes
  7. Working with Typography
    • Leaving the <font> Tag Behind
    • Using Valid XHTML Typographic Elements
    • Exercise 1: Formatting Text with the Property Inspector
    • What Measurement Should You Use?
    • Exercise 2: Managing White Space with Margins, Padding, and Line Height
    • Exercise 3: Using Font Lists
    • Exercise 4: Aligning Text
    • Exercise 5: Using Ordered, Unordered, and Definition Lists
    • What Is Flash Text?
    • Exercise 6: Creating Flash Text
  8. Working with Tables
    • What Is a Table?
    • Exercise 1: Creating and Adding Content to a Table
    • Exercise 2: Changing the Border of a Table with XHTML
    • Exercise 3: Changing the Border of a Table with CSS
    • Exercise 4: Adding Color to Tables
    • Exercise 5: Aligning Table Content
    • Exercise 6: Sorting a Table
    • Exercise 7: Setting Table Widths
    • Exercise 8: Creating Rounded-Corner Tables
  9. Using Layout Tools
    • Using Tracing Images, AP Divs, and Tables for Layout
    • Exercise 1: Applying a Tracing Image
    • Exercise 2: Adding AP Divs
    • What Makes an AP <div> Absolutely Positioned?
    • What Is the Layout Mode?
    • Exercise 3: Using Layout Tables and Layout Cells
    • Exercise 4: Working with Layout Table Widths
  10. Designing for Devices
    • What’s a Device?
    • Exercise 1: Attaching a Printer-Friendly Style Sheet
    • Exercise 2: Styling for Print
    • Exercise 3: Accessing Adobe Device Central
  11. Adding Rollover Images
    • Following Rollover Rules
    • Exercise 1: Creating a Simple Rollover
    • Exercise 2: Creating Disjointed Rollovers
    • Exercise 3: Creating Navigation Bars with Multiple Rollover States
    • What Are Flash Buttons?
    • Exercise 4: Creating Flash Buttons
  12. Using XHTML
    • Exercise 1: Viewing the Markup
    • Reviewing Your Options in Code View
    • Exercise 2: Editing in Code View
    • Using the Code Toolbar
    • Exercise 3: Using Code Collapse
    • Exercise 4: Using the Quick Tag Editor
    • Exercise 5: Using the Tag Editor and Tag Chooser
    • Exercise 6: Working with Snippets
  13. Working with Forms
    • Using the Forms Group of the Insert Bar
    • Exercise 1: Working with Text Fields and Text Areas
    • Exercise 2: Working with Check Boxes and Radio Buttons
    • Exercise 3: Working with Lists and Menus
    • Exercise 4: Adding Submit and Reset Buttons
  14. Applying Behaviors
    • Exercise 1: Using the Open Browser Window Behavior
    • Exercise 2: Using the Popup Message Behavior
    • Exercise 3: Using the Validate Form Behavior
    • Getting More Behaviors
  15. Editing Images
    • Exercise 1: Setting External Image Editor Preferences
    • Exercise 2: Editing Images with Built-in Tools
    • Exercise 3: Roundtrip Editing to and from Photoshop or Fireworks
    • Exercise 4: Copying and Pasting from Photoshop into Dreamweaver
  16. Using Templates and Library Items
    • Exercise 1: Seeing Templates in Action
    • Exercise 2: Creating a New Template
    • Exercise 3: Applying Templates to Existing Documents
    • Exercise 4: Modifying a Template
    • Exercise 5: Adding Repeating Regions
    • Exercise 6: Working with Repeating Regions
    • Exercise 7: Adding Optional Regions
    • Exercise 8: Modifying Template Properties
    • Knowing When to Use Library Items
    • Exercise 9: Creating a Library Item
    • Exercise 10: Modifying a Library Item
  17. Automating Repetitive Tasks
    • What Is the History Panel?
      Exercise 1: Using the History Panel for Undo/Redo
    • Exercise 2: Saving History Steps as Commands
    • Exercise 3: Using Find and Replace
  18. Understanding Accessibility
    • Understanding the W3C Accessibility Guidelines
    • Exercise 1: Setting Accessibility Preferences
    • Exercise 2: Inserting Accessible Images
    • Exercise 3: Inserting Accessible Tables
    • Exercise 4: Inserting Accessible Form Objects
  19. Inserting Media Objects
    • Downloading Plug-Ins
    • Exercise 1: Linking to Sounds
    • Exercise 2: Embedding Multimedia Files
    • Exercise 3: Inserting Flash Content
    • Exercise 4: Inserting Flash Video Content
  20. Using Spry Tools
    • What Is Ajax?
    • What Is Spry?
    • Exercise 1: Adding an XML Data Source
    • Exercise 2: Adding a Spry Table
    • Exercise 3: Adding Spry Detail Regions
    • Exercise 4: Using Spry Widgets
    • Exercise 5: Adding Spry Form Fields
  21. Getting Your Site Online
    • Setting FTP Connection Information
    • What Is FTP?
    • Putting Files onto the Web Server
    • Running Site Reports
    • Using the Reports Dialog Box