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Dreamweaver 8 Training Course 

This Online Dreamweaver training course delves into the many powerful features of this very popular web design application. The course not only covers the basic concepts of website design but also everything from the basics of using Dreamweaver 8 to developing and creating a fully interactive, accessible website. It explains and demonstrates how to create, edit, manage, design and publish a professional website with Dreamweaver 8.

The course is carefully designed to make even the most complex topics simple so you can quickly master Dreamweaver. The training tutorials demonstrate how to set up a web site, manage the files within, layout web pages, working with tables, forms, Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), add interactive features to web pages using behaviours and much much more.

Excercise files can be downloaded by subscribed members so you can follow along each tutorials and learn at your own pace.

Note: Monitor resolution needs to be set to at least 1024 X 768 to view the video tutorials.

  

Dreamweaver 8 Training Course

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Please see below the online Dreamweaver 8 training course outline. All tutorials will be activated immediately when you subscribe. Subscribe now or try a sample tutorial below

Sample tutorial:  Changing Stacking Order

 

 Training Course Outline
Introduction 

Web Design Essentials 
HTML vs XHTML 
Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) 
JavaScript 
File naming conventions 

Dreamweaver 8 Interface 
Setting up the workspace 
The Start page 
The Insert bar 
The Properties Inspector 
The document toolbar 
The Document Window 
Panel and panel groups 
Saving workspace layouts 
How to define your browser of choice 
The Menu bar 

Site Management 
Defining a site from scratch 
Setting up an existing site 
File and folder management 
Creating a site map 

Managing Documents 
Creating new documents 
Adding & formatting text 
Web fonts 
Web images 
Inserting & Aligning images 
Page properties 
Using meta tags 

Linking 
Linking images & text 
Email links 
Named anchors 
Image maps 
Linking to files 

Tables 
Creating and understanding tables 
Modifying tables 
Formatting tables 
Nested tables and borders 
Inserting delimited data 
Sorting tables 

Layers 
Creating layers 
Creating a tracing image 
Modifying layers 
Changing stacking order of layers 
Converting between layers to tables 

Frames 
Understanding frames and framesets 
Creating frames and framesets 
Saving framesets 
Linking and setting targets 

Cascading Style Sheet (CSS) Essentials 
Introduction to CSS 
Redefine HTML tags with CSS 
Creating a new class style 
Creating external style sheets 
Applying external style sheets 
Modifying style sheets 
Defining rules for styles 

Forms 
Creating a form 
Adding text fields and text areas 
Adding radio buttons, list menus & check boxes 
Buttons and form properties 
Validating form 
Creating a jump menu 

Rollovers 
Creating a simple rollover 
Multiple event rollovers 
Creating flash text and buttons 
Inserting navigation bars 

Behaviours 
About behaviours 
Creating a pop-up window 
Creating a pop-up menu 
Setting text of text fields 
Obtaining more behaviours 
Managing extensions 

Working with XHTML code 
Code viewing options 
Editing code 
The coding toolbar 
Using the quick tag editor 
Using and creating code snippets 

Using Templates and Library items 
About templates 
Creating a template 
Applying a template 
Modifying a template 
Creating a library item 
Modifying a library item 

Automation 
Repeating tasks 
Creating dreamweaver commands 
Using find and replace 

Insert Multimedia 
Linking to media 
Embedding media 
Using parameters to control multimedia 
Inserting a flash file 

Publishing a Site to the Internet 
Site report 
Checking links 
Signing up and entering remote server information 
Publish to hosting server 
Updating site 
  
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