Dreamweaver CS4: Website Development
With Adobe Dreamweaver CS4 you can quickly design, develop, and maintain websites. Built for both designers and developers, Dreamweaver CS4 offers the choice of working with a visual interface or a streamlined coding environment.
Quick Facts
Duration: 3 Days
Class Size: 10
Level: Beg / Int
Times: 9.00am - 5.00pm approx.
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About the Course
During the 3 day course, the instructor will show participants how to build an entire mock website step by step. Training starts with an introduction to the interface, and moves on to adding and formatting content, interactivity, CSS layouts and libraries. By the end of the course each participant should be able to create, upload, test and maintain a website. The training exercises are conducted using a mock-website, so students finish the training with real world confidence.
Who should do this course?
This course is designed for anyone who needs to build or maintain websites.
Prerequisites
There are no prerequisite for attending this course. However we strongly recommend that participants complete the Introduction to HTML course before attending this course, or have equivalent skills.
Course Units
- Unit 1: Basic Orientation
- - Course Objectives
- - Prerequisites
- - Static Page Architecture
- - HTML
- - Standards-based Web Development
- HTML Validation
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- Unit 2: Getting Started
- - Introducing Dreamweaver CS4
- - Learning the Dreamweaver CS4 Interface
- - Modifying and saving the workspace
- - Defining a Local Site
- - Setting Dreamweaver’s preferences
- - Using the Files Panel
- - Planning a Website
- - Creating HTML Pages
- - Previewing HTML Pages in the Browser
- - Previewing HTML Pages Using Live View
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- Unit 3: Adding Content to a Website
- - Adding Content from Text Files and Word Documents
- - Controlling Document Structure
- - Adding Lists
- - Adding Horizontal Rules
- - Adding Special Characters
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- Unit 4: Formatting Contents using CSS
- - Formatting Text
- - Introducing Cascading Style Sheets
- - External vs. Internal Style Sheets
- - Creating and Attaching an External Style Sheet
- - Defining CSS Rules with the Styles Panel and the Properties Inspector
- - Creating Element, Class, and Descendant Selectors
- - Displaying Styles
- - Over-riding an External CSS Rule with an Internal Rule
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- Unit 5: Adding Images
- - Adding Images to Web Pages
- - Using the Assets Panel
- - Modifying Image Properties
- - Aligning Images with CSS
- - Editing Images
- - Roundtrip Editing with Fireworks CS4
- - Customising the Insert Bar
- - Adding Flash Content
- - Adding Flash Video
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- Unit 6: Adding Interactive Elements
- - The Basics of Site Navigation
- - Linking to Files within the Site
- - Linking to External Websites
- - Opening a Link in a New Window
- - Linking to Named Anchors on a page
- - Adding Email Links
- - Linking from Images
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- Unit 7: Designing Layouts with CSS
- - Designing with DIVs and CSS
- - Positioning vs. Floats for Layout
- - Designing a Float-based Layout
- - Centre-Aligning DIVS
- - Designing Navigation Links with CSS
- - Working with Tabular Data
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- Unit 8: Using Libraries and Templates
- - Using Site Library Items
- - Creating Site Templates
- - Editable Regions
- - Using Templates
- - Applying a Template to an Existing Page
- - Modifying Templates
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- Unit 9: Creating Forms
- - Forms
- - Spry Form Validation
- - Processing Forms
- - Setting Focus in a Form
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- Unit 10: Testing, Uploading, and Maintaining a Website
- - Testing a Site
- - File Management
- - Connecting to a Remote Site
- - File Synchronisation
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Upcoming Courses
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Sydney
Level 11, 32 Walker Street
North Sydney
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- Date:
- 27-29 Sep 10
- 27-29 Oct 10
- 23-25 Nov 10
- 20-22 Dec 10
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Melbourne
Level 12, 379 Collins Street
Melbourne
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- Date:
- 22-24 Sep 10
- 27-29 Oct 10
- 29 Nov - 01 Dec 10
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Brisbane
C/- Training Choice, Mezzanine Level, 88 Creek Street
Brisbane
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- Date:
- 05-07 Oct 10
- 01-03 Nov 10
- 01-03 Dec 10
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Canberra
C/- Training Choice, Level 4, 54 Marcus Clarke Street
Canberra
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- Date:
- 20-22 Oct 10
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Adelaide
C/- Mindfull Computer & Seminar, Level 4, 74 Pirie Street
Adelaide
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- Date:
- 08-10 Nov 10
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Perth
C/- Training Choice, Level 7, 105 St Georges Terrace
Perth
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- Date:
- 22-24 Nov 10
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Duration: 3 Days
Class Size: 10
Level: Beg / Int
Times: 9.00am - 5.00pm approx.
