Overview
Dreamweaver CS4 is the industry-leading website creation tool, enabling users to efficiently design, develop and maintain websites. Fireworks CS4 enables users to create, edit and optimize graphics and images for the web with precise control. The combination of the two programs will enable you to design, build and maintain professional websites.
This training may be available onsite; please contact us if you are interested.
Audience
Graphic/Web designers, or people transitioning into a website related job or taking on website maintenance responsibilities. This Foundation course is aimed at delegates with little or no experience of Dreamweaver and Fireworks. At the end of the course delegates will have created and built a professional working website.
Skills Gained
How to quickly and easily design, develop and maintain a professional website. Effectively use CSS to layout and manage your website. Create, edit and optimize graphics and images to incorporate into your website design. How to connect your website to the Internet and how to upload and maintain your website files.
Course Outline
How do websites work?
- The 'bigger picture' the Internet
- Enabling your website to be viewed on the Internet
- Building a user friendly website
- Your target audience
- Accessibility and legal responsibilities
Dreamweaver CS3 Overview
- Introducing Dreamweaver CS3
- Learning the interface
- Dreamweaver Fireworks workflow
Fireworks CS3 Overview
- Introducing Fireworks CS3
- Learning the interface
- Fireworks Dreamweaver workflow
HTML Code
- Understanding HTML code
- Viewing examples of HTML code
- Basic HTML exercises
Getting Started
- Creating a site folder
- Creating a new local site
- Working with your site files
Basic Page Creation
- Create a new basic HTML page
- Add and format text content
- Insert graphics and images
- Test and preview the page
Page Layout with Tables
- Overview of tables
- Designing a page layout with tables
- Creating table structures
- Modifying and nesting tables
- Formatting text, images and data in tables
Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)
- Overview of CSS
- Styling with CSS
- Creating an internal style sheet
- Creating an external style sheet
- Attaching style sheets to multiple pages
Navigating your site
- Understanding site navigation
- Creating internal site links
- Creating external links
- Creating email links
- Creating page anchor links
- Creating image links
Page Layout with CSS
- Using layers for page layout
- Adding CSS to layers
- Using absolute and relative positioning
- Designing with DIVs
- Designing navigation links with CSS
- Importing tabular data
Working with Graphics and Images
- Overview of web-based image creation
- Sourcing, editing and optimizing images
- Creating and manipulating graphics
- Creating slices, rollovers and hotspots
- Adding Flash content
Templates and Libraries
- Overview of templates
- Creating site templates
- Defining editable regions
- Applying templates
- Modify and update templates
- Create a site library
- Modify and update library items
Adding Interactive Content
- Overview of JavaScript Behaviours
- Create and edit a JavaScript Behaviour
Creating Forms
- Understanding forms
- Create a basic form
- Processing a form
Site Testing, Maintenance and Uploading
- Testing your site
- Connecting your site to the Internet
- Uploading and maintaining your site
The training course outline shown above is a standardised version representing all
the dates shown and may vary from the course you attend. You will be sent the actual
course outline when you enquire about a specific date.