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This course requires no knowledge of Dreamweaver, web development or HTML and aims to equip users with a step by step plan for creating basic Dreamweaver websites and making them live. The course features practical exercises designed to demystify the process of building accessible, standards-compliant sites using Cascading Style Sheets and Dreamweaver templates to maintain a consistent look and feel on all pages.

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
Getting help
Using the Reference panel

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

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Dreamweaver Training Course Information

Dreamweaver training courses is going to be based on web design that utilizes code in its creation. HTML is typically used for the layout and the manufacture of web designs. With Dreamweaver, one does not need to reinvent the wheel and learn all the codes. Dreamweaver pretty much simplifies the construction of such pages.

You will learn how to preview websites from local areas. The site management tool will grant the ability to synchronize, find and replace codes and text. The software will edit certain files locally and upload them to remote web servers. The fundamental of the operation is based on File Transfer Protocol and Secure File Transfer Protocol.

Web development becomes straightforward with Dreamweaver. Learning the basics of Hyper Text Markup Language and Extensible Hyper Text Markup Language will be the core ground rules in your understanding of how they provide the core of web designs. Insight in how Cascading Style Sheets provide one set of format for web pages will be provided.

JavaScript will be based on object-oriented design and is mainly used for client based parts of the program. Using variables and arrays will be the building blocks of Java programming language. The language itself is the basics of how to implement web page's functionality and provides a user friendly interface for clients.

Having discussed the three cores that operate behind the screen of web pages, Uniform Resource Locator is used to link pages together and is also another crucial component of how web pages are accessible. Links within links and how they provide value will be discussed.

Dreamweaver training courses will discuss the vital components that make up a web page. As you progress through the training classes, you will begin to understand how to create an effective web page layout and how to link them throughout the Internet. You will be working with basic programming languages, tables, flash icons and text, layouts, and understanding how to implement effective linking to gain exposure for your Internet Estate.