Adobe Dreamweaver CS4
Intermediate training class

Class Schedule

Class: Adobe Dreamweaver CS4 - Intermediate

Duration: 2 days

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• Type: Onsite or classroom
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• Duration: 2 days
• 1 Person, 2 days: $$1275.00 special: $959.00
• 2 People, 2 days: $$1425.00 special: $1069.00
• 3 People, 2 days: $$1499.00 special: $1125.00
• 4 People, 2 days: $$1575.00 special: $1179.00
• 5 People, 2 days: $$1649.00 special: $1235.00
• 6 People, 2 days: $$1725.00 special: $1295.00
• * Prices for a booking with multiple trainees.

Class Outline for Adobe Dreamweaver CS4 - Intermediate

Adobe® Dreamweaver® CS4 is one of the most popular web development and site management tools available. With everything you need to build and manage great looking web sites, Dreamweaver’s powerful functionality is uniquely accessible through an intuitive graphical user interface. Dreamweaver CS4 works seamlessly with Adobe’s leading design applications like Flash® and Photoshop®, and can integrate into nearly every kind of web design/development workflow.

Structure and Style Primer

-Building modern web sites
-Separating Structure and Style
-The three levels of styles
-The best level of styles
-Creating and applying styles
-When to nest styles

HTML Page Structure

-Head elements: title, meta data, links, css and scripts
-Body IDs for better navigation

Navigation Elements

-Pseudo-classes for links
-Using CSS for clean hover effects
-Avoiding old school rollovers
-Quick and dirty Flash buttons
-Image maps - still relevant?

CSS Positioning and Layers

-Zeroing Browser margins
-Page Centering with margin:auto
-Creating a 2 or 3 column layout
-CSS DIVs with floats
-The CSS Box Model for Block Elements
-Inline elements
-Relative and Absolute positions
-When to position and when to float

Tables for Tabular Data

-Do we still use tables?
-Importing tabular data
-Styling Tables with CSS
-Sorting and managing tables

Forms

-Forms and web servers
-Using PHP as a free model
-Creating a basic web form
-Styling forms with CSS
-Creating a response page

Media

-Adding Flash
-Adding Video (Quicktime etc.)
-Adding Sound

Spry

-Introduction to Spry
-Why Spry?
-Preinstalled widgets for page effects
-Preinstalled widgets for form validation

Workflow: Asset Libraries and Snippets

-Library items (mini templates!)
-Updating library items
-Snippets for your code base

Workflow: Templates

-Creating a base template
-Adding editable regions
-Repeating regions
-Detaching from templates

Working in Code View

-Primer on good code-styling
-Context sensitive auto-complete
-Commenting your code
-Formatting your code
-Code View sidebar options

Site and Code tools

-Browser compatibility checking
-Cloaking files
-Creating site reports

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