Adobe Dreamweaver CS5
Intermediate training class

Class Schedule

Class: Adobe Dreamweaver CS5 - Intermediate

Duration: 2 days

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• Location: You choose!
• Type: Onsite or classroom
• Date: You choose!
• 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 CS5 - Intermediate

Adobe® Dreamweaver® CS5 is the most powerful and commonly-used web development and site management tool on the market. It contains all the features and tools you need to create and manage great-looking, functional web sites through an intuitive graphical user interface and advanced coding tools. Dreamweaver CS5 also integrates seamlessly with Adobe’s leading design applications like Flash CS5® CS5 and Photoshop CS5®, greatly facilitating the creative process.

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

Simpler site setup

-New easier site setup   CS5 New!
-CSS starter pages   CS5 New!

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

Integrated CMS support

-CMS Authoring within Dreamweaver CS5 New!
-CMS Testing within Dreamweaver CS5 New!

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
-Testing with Adobe BrowserLab CS5 New!
-The Dreamweaver CS5 HTML5 Extension Pack CS5 New!

Site and Code tools

-Browser compatibility checking
-Cloaking files
-Creating site reports

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