DreamWeaver CS4 Getting Started
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DreamWeaver CS4 - Getting Started

Dreamweaver CS4 - Getting Started is a blended learning course that combines 3 days of instructor led classroom based DreamWeaver CS4 training with an additional 2 days of online learning content covering a range of DreamWeaver topics suitable for beginners.

The classroom based modules can either be completed at our fully equipped London training centre or at your own facility, whilst the online modules combine high quality flash video presentations backed up with instructor led course discussion forums, exercises files, real world samples, and loads more.

Summary of Topics Covered
- General Interface
- How the panels work
- docking
- panel groups
- document tabbing
- Creating/Saving workspaces
- The Application bar
- N-up display
- Canvas rotation
- Basic shortcuts
- Exploring Dreamweaver
- Explore the Dreamweaver Environment
- Toolbars and panels
- Using Dreamweaver Workspaces
- Dreamweaver preferences
- Introduction to Website Development
- What you need to know first
- Site setup
- Setting up a site (with a view to standardisation)
- Installing a web server - xamp, mamp, custom
- local vs remote directories
- Home page setup - home/index/default
- File naming conventions
- Basic page markup
- Marking up a page with text, headers, paragraphs, lists, hrs, etc
- special characters
- html
- Links
- Linking pages
- Linking sections
- Linking to outside pages
- Linking to paragraphs
- Images
- Inserting an image into a page
- in-line/flow text around
- backgrounds
- as buttons
- rollovers
- Editing a placed image
- Image properties
- Image maps
- Using Photoshop smart objects
- Simple tables
- Simple layout
- rows/columns - formatting
- height/width
- text/graphics inside tables
- Views
- Live View
- Code View
- JavaScript/AJAX code hinting
- Related files
- Code Navigator
- CSS - formatting a page
- Creating css rules
- Formatting text - colour, font-size, etc
- Formatting the background
- Applying css rules to tags - body, em, strong, ul, etc
- Applying css to several pages at once - external css files
- CSS layout
- One box layout - creating a single box (div) and changing its position and formatting
- 2 box layout
- 3 box layout
- 1 box, 2 column layout
- 1 box, 2 column, centred layout
- CSS with tables and forms
- Using css to format a table - borders, backgrounds, etc
- Using css to format a form - buttons, backgrounds, borders, etc
- CSS and Images
- Using css to apply images as backgrounds - changing their position, etc
- 2 picture example - how to use css to apply the same picture in two places, but make it look as one - each copy of the picture having a slightly different opacity
- CSS and links
- Hover
- Blocks
- Borders
- Using a list as a navigation bar
- Lab - Create your own web site
- Here you will create your own web site: You will start from scratch - creating a new site definition within dreamweaver.
- You will create 24 pages using your own design, creating your own css to apply your own formatting.
- Text can be downloaded or brought in.
- Images can be downloaded or brought in from outside - buttons, backgrounds, pictures etc.
- At the end of this lab you will successfully have created your own minisite using the techniques taught previously.
- InContext Editing
- Assets
- Templates
- Library items
- Other assets
- Favourites
- Site Management
- Uploading/downloading files
- Search and replace
- Spell checking
- Accessibility reports
- Other reports
- Help
- Reference material
- Masking files
- Subversion integration
- Page extras
- meta tags
- head content
- scripts
- Inserting video and flash content
- Inserting flash video
- Inserting flash content (swf)
- Inserting quicktime movies
- CSS Techniques
- Columns
- Headers and Footers
- Boxes
- Links
- Misc.
- Exporting
- Adobe AIR authoring
- Creating a simple web site as an AIR application
- AIR applications using persistant data from a database
- Interactive elements - Spry
- Spry Menus
- Spry tables
- Spry tabs
- Spry Datasets
- Using Dreamweaver with Subversion
- Setting up up a Subversion system
- Getting Dreamweaver to work with Subversion
- Check-in/Check-out files
- Rollback
- Resolving conflicts
 
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Key Details
Provided by:
Highlander Ltd


 
Duration3 days
 
£750
per delegate
 
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