Dreamweaver - Website Development - top

Description

Adobe Dreamweaver is the worldwide tool of choice for those who need to design, build and manage professional websites. This course has been specifically designed to enable you to master the essentials of Dreamweaver quickly and easily. You will cover creating, editing, publishing and updating a website as well as adding elements to existing sites and important site management issues.

This three day course includes understanding the development process, adding content to an existing site, understanding the power of style sheets (CSS), working with buttons and rollovers, creating jump menus and publishing, testing and maintaining your site. This course will provide you with the expertise to produce and maintain innovative, professional websites using Dreamweaver.

Adobe Dreamweaver Website Development Course outline

Introducing Dreamweaver
• Course objectives
• Static page architecture

Getting started
• Introduction to Dreamweaver
• Dreamweaver interface basics
• Creating a local site
• Creating a new HTML page
• Using development views
• Previewing pages
• Setting document properties

Adding content to a site
• Adding content
• Importing text files
• Importing Word and Excel content
• Controlling document structure
• Creating lists
• Horizontal rules
• Adding special characters

Formatting text with CSS
• Formatting text
• Cascading Style Sheets
• Creating styles
• Exporting CSS rule definitions
• Creating class styles
• Creating advanced styles

External styles
• Attaching external style sheets
• Creating new external style sheets
• Displaying styles
• Cascading order and inheritance of styles
• Creating internal styles

Working with graphics
• Seamless integration with Photoshop and Fireworks
• Placing graphics on the page
• Accessibility settings
• Importing layered images
• Optimising an image
• Adding Flash content

Navigating your site
• Linking files to your site
• Adding anchors
• Adding email links
• Linking from images
• Linking from an image map
• Creating a navigation bar
• Inserting a jump menu

Using libraries and templates
• Creating library items
• Placing and editing library items
• Detaching library items
• Creating templates
• Applying a template to an existing image
• Defining editable regions
• Modifying templates

Designing pages with CSS
• Dreamweaver CSS templates
• Inserting DIV tags
• Using the rulers and guides
• Drawing layers to design your pages
• Adding CSS to a layer
• Using visual aids for DIV tags
• Attaching external style sheets
• Adding tables
• The Spry Framework for Ajax - an overview
• Importing tabular data
• The Adobe CSS Advisor website

Creating forms
• Creating a form
• Form processing
• Setting focus on a form
• Adding JavaScript
• Form validation in Dreamweaver

Testing, maintenance and uploading
• Checking accessibility, links and browser compatibility
• Using the integrated File Browser
• Connecting to a remote site
• Cloaking folders and files
• Uploading files
• Synchronising files
• Using browser compatibility check

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Dreamweaver - Developing ASP Applications - top

Description

Adobe Dreamweaver CS4: Developing ASP Applications is a three day course for those who already have the Dreamweaver skills required to build static web content and who want to combine Dreamweaver and ASP to create dynamic, data-driven websites.

This popular course is designed to develop the real world practical Dreamweaver and ASP skills required to build professional, dynamic sites (if you are working with PHP - please call for a separate course outline).

The course covers setting up a site and building a simple, dynamic application. You will cover how to configure your system to pass data between pages, send and receive email, communicate with databases, collect, process, filter and display dynamic data, authenticate specific users, work with dynamic forms and build update pages. If you wish to work on your own website or project as part of the training - this course can be taken as individual tuition or as a private company course.

Adobe Dreamweaver Level 2 Course outline

Getting started
• Defining a static site
• Creating the contact page
• Creating a new page based on an existing page
• Working in design view, code view and split view
• Inserting and formatting text
• Inserting images from the insert bar
• Creating tables
• The Property Inspector and the Properties Panel

Dynamic web sites
• Dynamic web site basics
• Choosing a server model
• Redefining the site for dynamic development
• Developing with a local server
• Developing with a remote server
• Building a simple, dynamic application

Passing data between pages
• Understanding the HTTP protocol
• Retrieving data
• Setting and retrieving cookies

Sending email from a web form
• Introducing SMTP email service
• Writing code to send emails
• Introducing objects, methods, functions and properties
• Creating the web form
• Emailing dynamic form values
• Client-side form validation

Databases on the web
• A crash course on databases
• Connecting the site to a database
• Creating recordsets and displaying database information

Practical example: building a Tour Price calculator
• Creating the pages
• Building the form
• Collecting, processing and displaying the data
• Adding server-side form validation
• Creating the conditional region
• Creating and applying a custom CSS class
• Dynamically populated drop-down menus
• Creating filtered recordsets
• Revising the calculation script with live data
• Documenting your code with comments

Filtering and displaying data
• Preparing the input page
• Generating URLs dynamically
• Preparing the output page
• Populating page layouts dynamically
• Adding dynamic images

Building the tour descriptions
• Creating recordsets with joins
• Building the descriptions
• Inserting images and alt attributes
• Implementing recordset paging
• Passing data to other applications

Managing content with forms
• Creating the admin section
• Creating the form interface

Building search interfaces
• Creating the Search All link
• Searching by region and country
• Switching SQL statements
• Testing and debugging

Authenticating users
• Building the registration pages
• Building a log-in page
• Restricting access to pages

Building update pages
• Planning master-detail pages
• Making the detail page updateable


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