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Dreamweaver CS4 Introduction
(ISBN: 9781906990121)

Buy Dreamweaver CS4 Introduction CD

Microsoft Excel 2007 Intro Training CDDreamweaver CS4 is the new version of what has become the industry standard in web-development software. This interactive training CD will teach new users all the key concepts and techniques to start using Dreamweaver CS4 effectively. By the end of the training, users will be able to use Dreamweaver to build a basic web site.

Sample Tutorials

Main Topics

Sample Tutorials

Table of Contents

Key concepts

Dreamweaver's role in web development
HTML and XHTML
The role of CSS
Dreamweaver's CSS layouts
Preview in Browser preferences
Useful General preferences

Getting started

The Document window
The Application bar
The toolbars
The status bar
The Property Inspector
The Dreamweaver panels
The Insert panel and Insert menu

Web site creation overview

Key steps to creating a site
The Dreamweaver local root folder
The Dreamweaver default images folder
Defining a basic site
Creating files and folders
Creating a basic template
Creating basic CSS rules
Adding content to your pages
Testing your pages
Uploading your pages to the server

Adding content to web pages

Anatomy of an HTML page
Adding a title
Adding text
Adding images
Creating links
Working with colour
Highlighting elements
Using visual aids
Customising browser preview

Cascading style sheets

Dreamweaver and CSS
Adding CSS to your pages
Types of CSS rule
Using the CSS Styles panel
Using the Property Inspector
Techniques to avoid

Page layout

The DIV element
Fixed, liquid and dynamic layouts
Margins, border and padding
Absolute, relative and absolute positioning
CSS float and clear

Creating templates

Overview of Dreamweaver templates
The Templates folder
Defining editable regions
Editable regions and HTML tags
Modifying and deleting editable regions
Applying templates and updating pages

Working with text

Choosing units of measurement
Specifying character attributes
Specifying paragraph attributes
Indenting text
Text colour
Checking spelling
Find and Replace
Inserting special characters

Working with images

Overview of web graphic formats
Importing images
Photoshop smart images
Images and accessibility
Floating images
Using background images
Using the Assets panel

Creating links

Relative and absolute links
Specifying a target
Linking to images and other file types
Creating email links
Creating links to named anchors
Creating image maps

Lists

Creating lists
CSS styles and ordered lists
CSS styles and unordered lists
Using images as bullets
Using lists to create navigation buttons

Forms

Overview of HTML forms
Forms and accessibility
Text fields
Text area fields
Radio button groups
Checkboxes
Drop-down menus
Submit and Reset buttons
Form action
Form method

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