Macromedia Studio Training Course

5 day Macromedia Studio course including Dreamweaver, Fireworks and Flash in Birmingham and Midlands UK.

Macromedia Studio web design course which will take you through the process of designing your own web site and creating web graphics and animations for the website with:
Macromedia Dreamweaver
Macromedia Fireworks
Macromedia Flash

The Macromedia Studio course is designed to give you the basic skills needed to get started with website design. and then move on to more advanced areas like CSS page design and Templates. As part of the course you will build a small web site. This will include preparing images and graphics for your web site with Macromedia Fireworks and Macromedia Flash, building and managing a web site with Macromedia Dreamweaver and editing basic HTML code.

Save £100 off normal course rates when you book 5 days of training together.

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Macromedia Studio Training Course Overview

Macromedia Studio course duration: 5 day course
Level: beginners, intermediate, and some advanced
Software:
Macromedia Studio MX 2004, Macromedia Studio 8,
Dreamweaver MX2004, Macromedia Dreamweaver 8.
Fireworks MX2004, Macromedia Fireworks 8
Flash MX2004, Macromedia Flash 8
A similar course is available for Adobe Creative Suite 3 ( Web)
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.
Locations:
At client's site in Birmingham, Midlands and around the UK.
Macromedia Studio training requirements:
It is assumed that you already have reasonable computer skills, including file management. Some basic web design or HTML experience would be helpful, as would some knowledge of image editing and graphics software, however this is not essential.

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Macromedia Studio course - part one
Introduction to Dreamweaver, Fireworks and Flash

Day 1 - Macromedia Dreamweaver
the principles of web design, effective design of navigation and links and the basics of accessibility.
how to organise the files in your web site
designing a simple web page
using tables to layout a page
adding images and text
formatting text with either font tags or CSS
using behaviours to create mouseovers buttons
image maps and creating hotspots
making links to other web pages and documents
adding an e-mail link
file management and file types
basic HTML editing and code recognition

Day 2 - Macromedia Fireworks
vector graphics & creating artwork
text and text formatting
bitmap images and image editing
image resizing and colour correction
designing web page buttons
creating a simple animation
image optimisation and saving images for web sites
file formats
saving a graphic with areas of transparency

Day 3 - Macromedia Flash
painting and drawing tools, and using colours
creating and formatting text
using photographs
shape changing (morphing)
animating movement of shapes, images or text
using the timeline
adding interactivity
adding sound effects
basic scripting
exporting your flash animation & placing into a web page

 

Macromedia Studio course - part two
Intermediate and advanced Dreamweaver + Fireworks and Flash

Days 4 and 5
Intermediate and advanced web design

This will be an integrated 2 day course looking at some more advanced areas of Dreamweaver and designing a web site with Dreamweaver, Fireworks and Flash.
The site will be of your own design. You may want to use some of the designs you have created during the previous training or that you have created on your own in the break between the two parts of the course.

The course will include:

Troubleshooting designs and pages that you have created between the two training sessions.

Looking at different ways of laying out a web page in Dreamweaver, including tables, Layers, Div Tags and CSS, and an introduction to CSS positioning and XHTML code.

Design a template based web site with Dreamweaver, including a look at the use of nested templates for larger sites.

Designing and building a small web site using whichever methods you prefer, incorporating designs from Fireworks and Flash into Dreamweaver.

At the end of the course you will hopefully have a good understanding of the various techniques used in web design, and will have created a fully working web site which incorporates text, photographs, graphics and animation.

 

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Macromedia Studio training Costs

You will save £100 off normal course rates when you book this 5 day course.

Please see Prices for current course costs.

Macromedia Studio training - Dates

Dates are arranged to suit you - depending on availability.

The dates for this course will not be on consecutive days.
The course is intended to be spread over a few weeks to allow you time to practice in-between training sessions. With the first 3 days of the course to take place during the first 1 - 2 weeks and final 2 days 1 - 4 weeks later on.

You may also do this as a 4 day course without Flash.

 

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