Macromedia Dreamweaver Training - Intermediate
Learn to design professional websites with Intermediate Macromedia Dreamweaver training in Birmingham and Midlands areas.
Dreamweaver training will include how to create and manage a site, using Tables, Templates, Library items, CSS styles and other features which make it easier to design and maintain a larger site, designing simple feedback forms, and more. Basic HTML or XHTML coding can be included if required.
Custom Dreamweaver course will include building a web site based on your own ideas and designs.
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Intermediate Dreamweaver training summary
Dreamweaver Course duration: 1 to 2 days
Level: intermediate and some advanced -
custom course
Software: Macromedia Dreamweaver 8,
Macromedia Dreamweaver MX2004, Macromedia Dreamweaver MX.
Numbers: One to one or small groups of up
to 4
Trainees in a group should have the same skill level and the same requirements.
Dreamweaver
Course Requirements:
Good computer skills and basic web design skills to the level of the beginners
Dreamweaver course are necessary for this intermediate Dreamweaver
course.
Intermediate Macromedia Dreamweaver training - 2 day course
Macromedia Dreamweaver training can be tailored to your
requirements.
A typical Dreamweaver course may include the following areas:
Tables
Designing a page with scaling (% width) tables
Complex tables and nested tables
Behaviours
Use Dreamweaver behaviours to add javascript functions (mouseover, pop up window,
and others)
Image rollovers (mouseovers), including disjointed rollovers, where moving your
mouse over a button causes an image or graphic to change on a different part
of the page.
Library Items
Use Library items to easily place and update the identical content on multiple
pages of a website.
Dreamweaver Templates
Creating and editing templates
Defining editable areas on the page and setting properties for those areas
Creating pages based on a template, editing and updating them
Adding content to pages based on a template
Creating nested templates for multi section sites*
Frames - optional
Creating and editing a site made up of frames (where parts of the browser
window can be refreshed independently of the rest of the page)
Forms
Creating a simple feedback or enquiry form
How you can process the information in the form, including sending to an email
Validating the form (checking that certain fields are filled in with the correct
information)
CSS (Cascading Style Sheets)
Use CSS to generate changes to link text colour when the mouse moves over a hyperlink
Using styles with templates
Using CSS to set and control a background image
Creating indented text with CSS Styles
Creating a background colour block under a paragraph of text
Using CSS to format table borders
Editing CSS code
CSS to modify scrollbar colours *
Layers and Div tags
Basic Layer use and functions:
changing size, position, visibility, stacking order, etc.
Layer control: changing visibility on a mouseover event or over time
Changing Layer position over time or on a mouseover event
Adding a Div tag and setting its size, background color, text properties
and position with CSS
Various
Anchor tags to add links to another part of the same page (for long pages
of text)
Linking to PDF files
Using Assets
Using Find and Replace to change selected content or HTML code throughout
the page
Adding and using extensions in Dreamweaver - for extra functionality in
Dreamweaver
Creating a photo album
Testing & Site Management
Testing & bug fixing your web pages
Checking for broken links in your site
Validating the page code, and checking browser compatability
Using the site manager in Dreamweaver to manage and update your files
Automatically changing multiple links to the same page
How to upload your site to your server
Other techniques which can be included with this Macromedia Dreamweaver training if required:
Adding an e-mail link and setting an automatic subject line or cc address for the e-mail link
Search engine optimisation
Create meta tags such as
keywords and description tags
How to write page content effectively
Automatically forwarding one HTML page to another or
redirecting the address of a deleted page to a new web address *
Designing a custom 404 error page to replace the standard page not found
error page *
Basic XHTML coding - and differences to HTML 4 code
*These are optional areas and/or require extra preparation or information to be available (please state if you want to cover these areas)
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