Adobe Dreamweaver Essentials

Adobe DREAMWEAVER CS5 ESSENTIALS

This two-day Dreamweaver Essentials course is aimed at delegates with little or no experience of Dreamweaver and Photoshop. By the end of the course, delegates will have created and built a professional working website.

Adobe® Dreamweaver® CS5 software empowers designers and developers to build standards-based websites with confidence. Develop with your existing content management system and design with CSS inspection tools. Get fast and accurate browser-compatibility testing thanks to integration with Adobe BrowserLab, a new Adobe CS Live online service*.

Interested in this Dreamweaver Essentials course? Request more information from Symbiosis here.

Basic computer literacy is needed in order to take this Dreamweaver Essentials course.

Key topics of this Dreamweaver Essentials course include:

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

Interested in this Dreamweaver Essentials course? Request more information from Symbiosis here.

Delegates of this Dreamweaver Essentials course will learn:

• 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

Interested in this Dreamweaver Essentials course? Request more information from Symbiosis here.

All Dreamweaver Essentials courses are authorised by Adobe and delivered by Adobe certified trainers.

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 

For further deatils, contact Symbiosis here.