Adobe Dreamweaver CS5 Foundation

Overview

This course is designed for new users of Dreamweaver CS5. The course is aimed at those people who will be designing or maintaining their web site.

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 CS5 Workspace
Working with Dreamweaver CS5 new features
How to make the most of version CS5

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