Dreamweaver Introduction

Day one

1. Introducing the Course
Understanding and reviewing the course format, Reviewing the course objectives and prerequisites, Outlining at the course content and Understanding static page architecture

2. Getting Started
Introducing Dreamweaver CS5 and learning the interface, Defining a local site and Creating a website

3. Adding Content to a Site
Adding content and Controlling document structure
and Making lists, adding horizontal rules and special characters

4. Formatting with Cascading Style Sheets.
Formatting text and Creating styles, Introducing Cascading Style Sheets and Exporting CSS rule definitions. Creating class and advanced styles and Attaching external style sheets. Creating a new external style sheet and displaying styles, Understanding cascading order and inheritance of styles and Creating internal styles with the Property inspector.

5. Working with Graphics Using and placing graphics
on web pages, Modifying image properties and editing images, Doing roundtrip editing with Photoshop and customising the Insert bar and Adding Flash content and Video

Day two

1. Navigating Your Site
Understanding site navigation, Linking to files and to sites in your site, Linking to named anchors and adding e-mail links and Linking from images and creating a jump menu.

2. Designing Page Layouts with CSS
Understanding page layout and using layers, Adding CSS to layers and using absolute and relative positioning, Designing with DIVs and designing navigation links with CSS and Importing tabular data and using table layout view.

3. Using Libraries and Templates Using site library items and creating site templates, Defining editable regions and using templates and Applying and modifying a template to an existing page.

4. Creating Forms Understanding and processing forms and Setting focus and validating a form.

5. Testing, Maintaining, and Uploading
Testing your site and maintaining your files and folders and Connecting to a remote site and synchronising files.