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Adobe Dreamweaver is a professional web design program created to produce highly professional websites from a standard HTML & CSS site to fully functioning e-commerce solutions. With it's powerful interface you can quickly create layouts, manage site content and check for any code based browser compatibility issues. Dreamweaver's built in file syncronisation manager, allows designers to track the upload and download of site components in just one click.
The Dreamweaver software is design to work closely with other Adobe Creative Suite packages such as Flash and Fireworks to allow you to quickly and easily import and manipulate animations and graphics. The coding within Dreamweaver will aid any web designer to stay well ahead of the game when considering web standards with each new Dreamweaver version generating code that complies with the ever evolving web standards set by the W3C.
Course Requirements
To attend the Introduction to Dreamweaver training course you should have experience using either the Windows or Mac interface and be capable of basic file management. No previous web design software skills or experience is required, but actively working online is always beneficial.
Course Description
Our Introduction to Dreamweaver courses break down the package into structured sections so that new comers to web design can access and understand the basic components of HTML & CSS, layout, typography, working with images and utilising the built in libraries to increase your productivity.
Dreamweaver has a very simple file management process that will automatically take care of web resources allowing you to track individual sites with ease. The course will walk delegates through site file structures and site definitions to help get things right first time and to ensure that there are no serious issues when the sites go live.
A guide through the panels, menus and workspace will show delegates the extent of Dreamweaver's abilities, and while it has a great deal of depth, the most important features will be highlighted so that the package does not become overwhelming at the start of the web design process. By removing a selection of the more advanced panels and features within Dreamweaver, delegates will be able to have a more focused workspace aiding them in working smarter.
Once the workspace is familiar, the course takes delegates through structuring a web page using layers and CSS using the latest industry standard design methodologies. This then leads neatly into creating both internal and external site links to other pages and resources.
Content is what both people and search engines are looking for and the course focuses on how to introduce, format and position content professionally as well as making it search engine friendly.
Image placement, image links, background images and repeating techniques will provide delegates with an arsenal of methods to deliver professional looking final websites. As the course covers these techniques there will be a look at the pros and cons of each of the file types used to create web optimised images.
With the basics of layout and function covered we will take you through the process of site planning using documents currently employed by working design agencies to produce web site specifications. The final stage will be how to get a site live and the management and monitoring facilities available to both the client and the designer/developer.
All the way through we will make you aware of the quickest and most logical functions and tools that will help you to work most efficiently within Dreamweaver's interface.
Course Trainer
Paul has over ten years experience in the fields of web design, graphic design and photography. Using Dreamweaver and raw xhtml and CSS to design and develop websites for artists, councils, Universities, and independent project developing online training and high end e-commerce sites. Published works include an insight into Product Photography and guidance articles on marketing for new designers to aid them to develop a flexible marketing strategy. Currently working with midlands based businesses as a marketing consultant, plus training for several companies bringing a broad spectrum of design and development skills and a great deal of experience and web design and usability knowledge to the table. This industry awareness is transferred into the course material to give you real skills to take into your chosen market.
Course Location
Our Dreamweaver courses are run from our rooms in Nottingham's prestigious Lace Market area which is a part of the city's main commercial district. This is serviced by a state-of-the-art tram system allowing easy access to the city centre as well as direct hourly rail services from London, Liverpool, Manchester, Birmingham, Derby and Leicester.
Course Details
- Course Duration :
3 days | 9.30am - 5pm - Course Location :
Lace Market, Nottingham, UK - Course Price :
£395 - Software Version :
Dreamweaver CS4
Course Overview
The course covers the following areas :
- Website Basics
- File structures
- File name syntax
- HTML functions
- Getting Started
- Panels, tabs & views
- Walking through the workspace
- Site definition
- Working with Content
- Adding content
- Assigning headings
- Creating lists
- Special characters & symbols
- CSS (Cascading Style Sheets)
- Formatting text
- Creating styles
- Creating class styles
- Internal or external style sheets
- Creating advanced styles
- Displaying styles
- Including Images
- Placing graphics on the page
- Image properties
- Editing images
- Photoshop CS4 Integration
- Adding Flash content
- Adding Flash Video
- Site structure & Navigation
- Understanding site navigation
- Links to files in your site
- Links to external sites
- E-mail links
- Making images into links
- Designing Page Layouts with CSS
- Common page layouts
- Building with layers
- CSS with layers
- Using absolute and relative positioning
- CSS Dreamweaver CS4 layouts
- Using Libraries and Templates
- What are library items
- Creating site templates
- Defining editable regions
- Producing new pages from a template
- Editing existing templates
- Spry Data
- Spry Widgets
- Spry Effects
- Testing, Maintenance & Uploading
- Testing your site
- Uploading a site
- Local and remote views
- Maintaining your files and folders
- Replacing an existing site