Macromedia Studio Training Course
5 day Macromedia Studio course including Dreamweaver, Fireworks and Flash. One to one and small group training courses are available around the 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 course total cost 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 8:
Web Design: Dreamweaver 8.
Web Graphics and images: Fireworks 8
Animation: Flash 8
Numbers: One to one or small groups of up
to 4 trainees
Trainees in a group should have the same skill level and the same requirements.
Locations: On-site training is available at your office - around the UK.
May not be available in all areas due to limited availability of Flash trainers.
Trainer availability by area
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.
A similar course is available for Adobe Creative Suite 3 ( Web)
Macromedia Studio course - part one
Introduction to Dreamweaver, Fireworks and Flash
Day 1 - Macromedia Dreamweaver
Introduction to the tools and features of Dreamweaver
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 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
Build a small web site or 3 - 5 pages
- optional area if time is available -
Creating a simple page template or using library items for a navigation bar may be covered, as well as the areas above.
Day 2 - Macromedia Fireworks
Introduction to the tools and features of Fireworks
Using the tools and setting tool options
Using floating palettes including Colour, Fill, Stroke, Layers and Frames
Vector graphics & creating artwork
Text and text formatting
Adding drop shadows and other effects to text and artwork
Bitmap images and basic image editing
Image resizing and colour correction
Designing web page buttons
Creating a simple banner or header design with images/logo and text
Creating a simple animation
Image optimisation and saving images for web sites
File formats - gif and jpg
Saving a graphic with areas of transparency
Day 3 - Macromedia Flash
Introduction to the main tools and features of Flash
Painting and drawing tools, and using colours
Creating and formatting text
Importings and using photographs
Using the timeline
Colour changing or fading objects over time
Shape changing (morphing)
Animating movement of shapes, images or text
Adding basic interactivity - such as a link to a web site
Adding sound effects
Creating an animated banner or similar design
Exporting your flash animation ready to place 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 / Discounts
You will save £100 off total course cost when you book these 5 days of training together.
Please see Prices for current course costs or contact us for a quote.
Macromedia Studio training - Dates
Dates are arranged to suit you - depending on availability.
All 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 of training a few weeks later.
You may also do this as a 4 day course without Flash.
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