Adobe Dreamweaver CS4
Introduction training class

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Class: Adobe Dreamweaver CS4 - Introduction

Duration: 2 days

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Class Outline for Adobe Dreamweaver CS4 - Introduction

Dreamweaver CS4 is the leading web development and site management tool on the market. It has everything you need to build and manage great looking web sites with powerful functionality all through an intuitive graphical user interface. Dreamweaver CS4 is built to work with Adobe’s leading design applications like Flash® and Photoshop®. It also has great hand-coding tools for the adventurous beginner.

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
-The Manage Sites window
-Defining site parameters
-Using the Files panel

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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