DreamWeaver CC Getting Started Training
Our professional Dreamweaver training curriculum is designed to take you on a journey from complete beginner to expert, quickly and efficiently. On route you will learn the kind of tips, tricks and techniques that only experienced users know and benefit from, helping to improve your day to day performance.
About this DreamWeaver course
DreamWeaver CS6 Getting Started is an ideal follow on to the Intro to HTML and Intro to CSS courses and is ideally suited to those who want to use this great package more efficiently. Whether you are looking to create websites, intranets, email newsletters or other types of content, DreamWeaver offers a fast efficient way of doing so, and knowing how to use it is the key.
This course combines 2 days of classroom based training with access to our learning management system containing online video tutorials, samples files, exercises, support forums and more.
The Instructors
Our DreamWeaver course instructors all have years of experience working with DreamWeaver and have all attained Adobe Certified Expert and Adobe Certified Instructor status. In addition to working closely with Adobe on beta programs for upcoming versions, they have also written a number of books on DreamWeaver which are published by Friends of Ed.
The Audience
If you want to learn to use DreamWeaver CS6 but have no past experience then you're in the right place. The DreamWeaver CS6 Getting Started is targeted at those who are completely new to DreamWeaver.
For those who aren't sure what level to consider you could always try our DreamWeaver Skills Test. This free DreamWeaver test will give you an idea of your strength or weakness in using DreamWeaver and make it easier to decide what level course to look at.
Prerequisites
You should be comfortable using a computer to perform functions such as copy and paste, and opening applications and files. You should also be comfortable using the internet, for example for browsing and interacting with websites. A basic knowledge of HTML and CSS is also useful as it helps put the course in context, and if you don't have this we suggest you consider our Intro to HTML and Intro to CSS courses first.
Course Topics
The following modules are covered in this course:
Introduction to Website Development
- Exploring Dreamweaver
- The Menus
- Shortcuts
- Files Panel
- Assets Panel
- Properties Panel
- CSS Styles Panel
- Insert panel
Site management and setup
- Understanding site structure
- File naming conventions
- File and folder structure
- Defining a new site
- Previewing in browsers
- Managing multiple sites
Views
- Code view
- Design view
- Split view
Basic page markup
- What is HTML
- The Insert Panel
- Creating HTML tags
- Common HTML tags
- Code Comments
Styling with CSS
- What is CSS and why use it
- External or internal CSS
- Linking to external styles
- The properties panel
- Creating new CSS rules
- The CSS styles panel
- Editing CSS rules
- Compound rules
Links
- Hyperlinks- email Links
- Using named anchors
- Creating css rollover effects for links
Images
- Web images overview
- Inserting images
- Image attributes
- Positioning images
- Using background images
- Image rollovers
Simple tables
- Inserting tables
- Tag editor
- Merge cells
- Col spans and Row spans
- Styling your table with CSS
Lists
- Creating a list
- Ordered or unordered
- Styling lists
Working with Video and Audio
- Embedding video in your page
- HTML5 video in DreamWeaver
- HTML5 audio in DreamWeaver
Forms
- Understanding forms
- Form properties
- Text fields
- Checkboxes
- Radio buttons
- Submit buttons
- Form styling
- Emerging form features
Lab - Create your own website