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Dreamweaver CS4 Foundation
   

Overview & Pre-requisit

This course is designed for new users of Dreamweaver CS4. The course is aimed at those people who will be designing or maintaining their web site.

Course content (can be tailored)

Web site design fundamentals
Considerations
Elements of a successful web site
Prioritising content
What not to do
How to attract visitors
Proofreading
How to effectively check all links
Choosing an Internet Service Providor (ISP)
Getting a domain name
Search Engine Optimisation Techniques (SEO)

Dreamweaver CS4 Workspace
Working with Dreamweaver CS4 new features
How to make the most of version CS4

Planning and building
Dreamweaver work area
Defining a local site
Creating and editing pages
Formatting pages
Design, code and split views
Panels and floating panels
Properties Inspector
Context menus

Using CSS for Layouts
Using Div Tags
Creating CSS rules for DIV Tags
Inserting AP Div's
Behaviours

Working with Images
Image file formats
GIF, JPEG and PNG
Adding graphics to a page
Image properties
Configuring images
Background images
Page colours
HTML for images

Hyperlinks
Internal and external hyperlinks
E-mail links and named anchors
Graphical hyperlinks
Image Maps.
HTML for links

Tables and Layers
Creating Tables
Table and cell properties
Inserting rows and columns
Spanning columns and rows
HTML for tables


Cascading Style Sheets
CSS explained
When to use CSS styles
Creating new style sheets
Updating pages with CSS styles
Attaching style sheets
Amending style sheets

 
Templates
Working with templates
Creating and applying a template
Modifying a template

 
Site Management
Asset management and the assets panel
Deleting, moving and renaming pages using the Site Window
Removing and renaming sites
Checking links
Fixing a broken link
Browser compatibility checks
Using Find and Replace for the entire site

Publishing your website
FTP
Local Area Network
Internet Service Providers (ISP)


 

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