Macromedia Dreamweaver

The primary objective of the course is to introduce those with an elementary knowledge of how to use the Internet effectively for business purposes. No previous experience with using the Internet is necessary

Macromedia Dreamweaver is a professional HTML editor for visually designing and managing Web sites and pages. Whether you enjoy the control of hand-coding HTML or prefer to work in a visual editing environment, Dreamweaver makes it easy to get started and provides you with helpful tools to enhance your Web design experience.

Dreamweaver includes many coding tools and features: an HTML, CSS, and JavaScript reference, a JavaScript Debugger, and code editors (the Code view and Code inspector) that allow you to edit JavaScript, XML, and other text documents directly in Dreamweaver. Macromedia's Roundtrip HTML technology imports HTML documents without reformatting the code—and you can set Dreamweaver to clean up and reformat HTML when you want it to.

Dreamweaver's visual editing features also let you quickly add design and functionality to your pages without writing a line of code. You can view all your site elements or assets and drag them from an easy-to-use panel directly into a document. Streamline your development workflow by creating and editing images in Macromedia Fireworks, then importing them directly into Dreamweaver, or by adding Flash objects you create directly in Dreamweaver.

Dreamweaver is fully customizable. Use Dreamweaver to create your own objects and commands, modify keyboard shortcuts, and even write JavaScript code to extend Dreamweaver's capabilities with new behaviors, Property inspectors, and site reports.

DURATION : 1 Day

TARGET AUDIENCE :

Intending, new or recent users who need to get to grips with designing a basic Web Page. Some prior knowledge of web page design is required.

COURSE OBJECTIVES:

Learning the Basics

• Identify the tools and become familiar with the Dreamweaver interface
  
• Set up a new local site and specify preview browsers
  
• Create, save and title a new document
  
• Specify a background and default text colours
  
• Place text on a page
  
• Position and format text
  
• Use the Assets panel to save colours and apply them to text
  
• Create and apply HTML styles
  
• Create and Modify Flash text

Working with Graphics

• Identify graphic formats and explore their differences
  
• Insert graphics into a page
  
• Modify the properties of your images
  
• Give your images names and <alt> tags
  
• Change the positioning of graphics on a page
  
• Align text around an image
  
• Wrap text around an image
  
• Use the Assets panel to manage graphics
  
• Insert buttons and animations from Macromedia Flash

Creating Links

• Specify link colours according to the link type
  
• Create text and graphic links
  
• Create e-mail links automatically and manually
  
• Use anchors to jump to different parts of a page
  
• Create image maps to provide multiple links in the same image

Elements of Page Design

• Learn how to create tables to control the layout of your pages
  
• Modify the table properties, including border, background, spacing, colour, alignment and size
  
• Import tabular data from spreadsheets
  
• Modify a table by adjusting rows and columns
  
• Sort a table
  
• Export a table
  
• Determine the optimal size of your layout
  
• Import a tracing image