Overview

The Adobe Dreamweaver One Week Special offers comprehensive coverage of both basic and advanced features. Delegates will learn the essential aspects of the program and the process of creating basic sites and making them live. However the course also covers Dreamweaver's more sophisticated features like the use of Spry widgets and JavaScript behaviors. The course comprises:Dreamweaver Intro (2 days)Dreamweaver Intermediate (1 day)Dreamweaver Advanced (2 days).

Course Outline

Dreamweaver Introduction (2 days)

Getting started

Dreamweaver overview, The Dreamweaver toolbars, Inspectors and panels, The Objects panel, Code and design views, The Tag Editor, The tag selector, Working in site view, Working in document view

Basic web pages

Creating and formatting paragraphs, Aligning text, Inserting line breaks, Setting font attributes, Changing background and link colours, Inserting graphics, Inserting a rollover image, Using images as backgrounds, Using Flash buttons, Using Flash text, Adding text links, Adding links to graphics, Email links

Site setup

Creating a new site, Importing an existing site, Creating new files and folders, Specifying local folder information, Specifying remote host information, Connecting and uploading to a server, Updating and deleting files, Using the Assets panel, Adding assets to the Favorite list, Grouping assets

CSS

Overview of cascading style sheets, How Dreamweaver handles CSS, Creating a style rule for a tag, Creating custom classes, Creating advanced selectors, Dreamweaver CSS Styles panel, Applying classes to elements

Page layout

CSS and page layout, Dreamweaver preset CSS layouts, Fixed, elastic and fluid designs, Understanding the DIV tag, Modifying DIV attributes, The Float attribute, Padding and margin settings, Absolute positioning

Templates and libraries

Creating a new template, Defining editable areas, Applying templates to documents, Updating dependent documents, Creating library items, Using library items, Updating library items

Forms

Creating an HTML form, Adding text fields, Adding a text area, Adding check boxes, Organising elements with fieldsets, Radio button groups, List/Menu, Submit and Reset buttons, Form action and method

Dreamweaver Intermediate (1 day)

Advanced templates

Creating repeating regions, Creating repeating tables, Alternating background colours, Creating nested templates, Editable regions in nested templates, Creating repeating regions, Creating optional regions

Site management

Site preferences, Check In and Check Out, Using design notes, File View Columns, Cloaking and uncloaking sites, Creating site reports, Synchronising local and remote sites, Testing a site, Repairing broken links, Search and Replace HTML code, Searching specific tags, Saving searches, Using regular expressions

AP Layers

AP Layers overview, Pros and cons of using layers, Layers and CSS, Creating layers, Setting layer atrributes, Overlapping content, Layers and JavaScript behaviors

Behaviors

Attaching a behavior to the entire document, Attaching a behavior to an object, Modifying a behavior, Swap image, Browser detection, Plug-in detection, Messages and pop-up windows, Show/Hide layers, Spry and Aja

XWhat is Spry

The Spry Assets folder, Spry Tabbed Panels, Spry Accordion, Spry Collapsable Panel, Spry Menu Bar

Dreamweaver Advanced (2 days)

PHP Essentials

Background to PHP, Installation and configuration, Embedding PHP tags, Adding comments, Using the Print function, Using variables, Dynamic variables, Data types

Connections

Databases and dynamic sites, Connecting to a MySQL database, Dreamweaver's connection folder