Course duration: 3 Days

Cost: £875 + Vat

Introducing the Course

· Understanding the course Format
· Reviewing the course objectives and prerequisites
· Reviewing the course format
· Outlining the course content
· Understanding static page architecture

Getting Started

· Introducing Dreamweaver 8
· Learning the Interface
· Defining a local site
· Creating a website

Adding Content to a Site

· Adding content
· Controlling document structure
· Making lists
· 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
· 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

· Graphics on web pages
· Placing graphics on the page
· Modifying image properties
· Editing images
· 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
· Inserting a jump menu

Defining Page Layouts with CSS

· Understanding page layout
· Using layers for layout
· Adding CSS to layers
· Using absolute and relative positioning
· Designing with DIVs
· 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 templates to an existing page
· Modifying templates

Creating Forms

· Understanding forms
· Processing forms
· Setting focus in a form
· Validating a form

Testing, Maintaining and Uploading

· Testing your site
· Maintaining your files and folders
· Connecting to a remote site
· Synchronizing files