Adobe Dreamweaver CS5 Essentials for Web Creation

Basic computer literacy

• How to quickly and easily design, develop and maintain a professional website
• Effectively use CSS to layout and manage your website
• Create, edit and optimise graphics and images to incorporate into your  web design
• How to connect your site to the internet and how to upload and maintain your website files

How do websites work?

• The Anatomy of a Micro Site
• Your target audience
• Accessibility & your responsibilities
• Planning
• Navigation Maps
• Wire Frames

Dreamweaver Overview 

• Introducing DreamweaverWorkspace
• Learning the interface
• Dreamweaver and Fireworks/Photoshop workflow

HTML Code

• Understanding HTML code

• Viewing examples of HTML code
• HTML exercises

Getting Started

• Creating a site folder
• Creating a site definition
• Working with your site files

Page Creation

• Create a new HTML page
• Add a format text content
• Insert graphics and images
• Test and preview the page

Cascading Style Sheet - CSS

• Overview of CSS
• Styling text with CSS
• Creating and internal style sheet
• Creating an external style sheet
• Attaching style sheets to multiple pages
• Creating and managing multiple style sheets

Navigating your site

• Understanding site navigation 
• Creating internal site links
• Creating external links
• Creating email links
• Creating page anchor links
• Creating image maps
• Designing navigation links with CSS

Page layout with CSS

• Using absolute and relative positioning
• Designing with DIVs (Divisions)

Working with tables

• Merging / splitting sales
• Importing tabular data
• Styling tables and table data

Working with Assets

• Using the Assets pallet
• Overview of web image creation
• Optimising and adding images
• Adding Flash content
• Adding Video content
• Adding other plug-ins (Acrobat PDF)

Templates and Libraries

• Overview of templates
• Creating and managing templates
• Defining editable regions
• Applying templates 
• Modify and update templates
• Create a site library 
• Modify and update library items

Adding Interactive Content

•  Overview of JavaScript behaviours
• Apply and edit JavaScript behaviours
• Overview of the Spry framework
• Apply Spry objects

Site Testing, Maintenance and Uploading

• Page validation
• Find and replace
• Synchronising local and remote sites
• Testing your sites
• Connecting your site to the internet
• Uploading and maintaing your site
• Applying source formatting
• Cleaning up Microsoft Word HTML

All courses authorised by Adobe and delivered by Adobe certified trainers.

Symbiosis offer a range of standard and bespoke courses for individuals and companies from our Authorised Adobe Training Centres located throughout the UK. Three training options are available:

1. Public Courses: Our authorised Adobe courses are run from our training centres in Bristol, Leamington Spa, Leeds, London or Manchester.

2. Bespoke Courses: In addition to our listed Bespoke Courses, any of our Essentials or Advanced Courses can be tailored to meet your specific needs and run as a bespoke course. Please call for pricing.

3. Venue of your Choice: If preferred, a Symbiosis trainer can deliver our Adobe InDesign course at a venue of your choice using either your computers or our own mobile solution. Travel and expenses will be charged as extra. Please call for pricing. 

As part of your training package you will receive:

• Training from an Adobe Certified instructor at an authorised Adobe Training Centre
• A course manual 
• Refreshments throughout the day 
• 6 month post-training email and telephone support from your trainer
• A certificate upon completion of the course  

Symbiosis: authorised Adobe and Apple training courses

Since 1996 Symbiosis have been delivering authorised Adobe and Apple training courses  in the Midlands, Leeds, Manchester, Bristol and London areas.  

At Symbiosis the training is based on a wealth of ‘real-world’ experience and our aim is to provide appropriate, professional training in the use of the leading creative software packages - whether for print, interactive media, the web, video or mobile applications. Whether you are an individual or a company, Symbiosis's authorised status guarantees the quality of their training facilities and ensures you have access to qualified trainers, new computers, legal software, approved training materials and the provision of snacks and drinks.

Our aim - to provide great training at a competitive price from central locations, in the following areas:

            • Adobe Authorised Training Centre
            • Apple Authorized Training Center
            • Edexcel Approved
            • Filemaker Business Alliance Member
            • Quark Alliance Partner
            • Skillset Approved

Symbiosis - Look our Way... 

Whatever kind of training you are looking to achieve we can help you find your way, our accredited status can provide in-house team training to help you improve your working practice. We take pride in our authorised status and prior to accepting a booking, we take the time to check that a course is appropriate to your skill level and requirements.

Our commitment to quality means that we guarantee the following:

• Authorised Courses are limited to a maximum of 8 delegates
• All training is delivered by authorised instructors 
• All training is delivered using the most recent version of the software available (unless stated)
• Training is available on the Mac or PC platform
• Prices include a training manual

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