Adobe Dreamweaver CS5
Introduction training class

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Class: Adobe Dreamweaver CS5 - Introduction

Duration: 2 days

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Class Outline for Adobe Dreamweaver CS5 - Introduction

Adobe® Dreamweaver® CS5 provides all the tools you need to build and manage great-looking, functional web sites through an intuitive graphical user interface and advanced coding tools. Dreamweaver CS5 works seamlessly with Adobe’s leading design applications like Flash CS5® CS5 and Photoshop CS5®.

Web Sites

-What is the WWW?
-Servers and Clients
-What is a web site?
-HTML vs CSS, read Structure/Content vs Style
-Planning a web site

Dreamweaver’s Workspace

-Selecting and organizing your workspace
-Different view modes: Design, Split, Code
-Basic Preferences

Defining your site

-Creating the folders you’ll need
-New easier site setup   CS5 New!
-Defining site parameters
-Using the Files panel
-CSS starter pages   CS5 New!

A First Page

-Creating an index/default page
-Adding type
-Adding an image
-Saving and file extension
-Setting up externals browsers
-Previewing
-Using Live View

Understanding XHTML Building Blocks

-DIV tags for structure
-Creating a wireframe on paper and with DIVs
-Understanding the Box Object Model
-Heading tags
-Paragraph and line breaks tags
-Using Lists for navigation
-Importing text

Working with text in Dreamweaver

-Searching and replace for text or HTML
-Spell checking for content

Creating a CSS style sheet

-The three levels of styles
-Creating an external style sheet
-Text formatting
-Text alignment
-Setting defaults on the BODY tag

Graphics

-File formats: GIF, JPEG, PNG
-Placing images
-Applying and changing attributes
-Wrapping images with text with CSS
-Using background images
-Round tripping to Photoshop
-Optimizing PSDs on insert
-Updating and live linking
Multimedia
-Creating Flash text and buttons
-Embedding video and audio files
-Inserting plug-in based content
-Placing Flash content in Dreamweaver CS4

Links and Anchors

-Linking from text and images
-Linking to pages
-Linking to anchored locations
-Linking to external sites
-mailto: links
-Target links

Styling Links

-Using pseudo classes
-Understanding CSS hierarchy

Working with Tables

-Tables are for tabular data!!! Not design
-Creating a table from scratch
-Styling tables with CSS
-Scaling tables
-Sorting table contents
-Creating a table from an external source

Using content from other sources

-Pasting text from a text editor
-Using external source code
-Cleaning up Word HTML

Collaboration

-Using file check in/check out
-Synchronizing files

Remote site management

-Cloaking source files
-GET vs PUT of your site
-Synchronizing local and server versions
-Troubleshooting your site

Templates

-Creating templates for consistency
-Creating a file from a template
-Updating templates
-Limitations of templates

Things to Look at After Class

-A brief intro to Spry
-Templates, Libraries and your own source files
-Good resources on the web for learning more

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