Adobe Dreamweaver CS4 Introduction

Anatomy of a website
Planning a Site - guiding your readers around your pages
Good Design Principles - layout, navigation, search engine optimisation
The power of online marketing


The Dreamweaver Environment
The Dreamweaver Workspace
Using Dreamweaver Help


Using Dreamweaver to organise your entire site
Defining a Web Site
The Files panel
Creating a web page & Page Properties


Adding Basic Content
Adding, importing and formatting text
Inserting the date
Previewing pages


Images and Tables
Working with images
Interactive images and rollovers
Adding hotspots & media files
Inserting tables & using tables to layout pages


Working with Links
Connecting pages & checking for broken links
Link targets
Adding email links


Templates
Creating a template
Using & changing templates
Applying and detaching templates from pages


Cascading Style Sheets
Creating CSS to format text
Using CSS to layout pages
Understanding the CSS panel


More Navigation
Introducing Sprys & changing Spry attributes
Using Sprys to aid navigation


Uploading to a web server
How to upload and check a site

 

 

 

Course Overview:

The course will enable you to use Dreamweaver to create your web site. It introduces you to all the tools needed to create engaging, professional and functional content.

 

Course Duration:

1 Day

 

Course Pre-requisites:

Competence with basic Windows skills.

 

At the end of this course
you will be able to:
  • Plan your website
  • Understand the Dreamweaver Environment.
  • Organise your site
  • Add content to your site such as page, text, images and tables
  • Use tables and CSS to layout your site
  • Add navigation to your site using links and Sprys
  • Create and edit templates and attach them to your web pages
  • Upload your site to a web server

Price Band:

 Specialised