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Audience
Adobe Dreamweaver: Website Development is for people new to web design and development and want to learn about web development, and use Dreamweaver to build intuitive, attractive and accessible websites.
- Basic Computer Skills on Windows or Mac
Outline
- Introducing Dreamweaver
- What is Dreamweaver?
- What is HTML?
- What is the Internet?
- Creating Websites with HTML
- Learning the Dreamweaver interface
- Formatting your Workspace
- Defining a local site
- Creating a website using HTML basics
- The Web Design Process from Concept to completion
- What is a Bitmap Graphic?
- What is a Vector Graphic?
- What is the purpose for your site?
- Who is your target market?
- Who are we designing for?
- What is a Flow Chart?
- What is a storyboard?
- Learning about Design Constraints
- What size should be design be?
- How will they find us? Learning about Search Engine Optimization (SEO)
- Creating a Design Template
- Slicing our Comps from Photoshop and bringing them into Dreamweaver
Adding Content to a Site
- Adding content
- Insering Images
- Inserting Flash Files
- Inserting Video
- Controlling document structure
- Making lists
- Adding horizontal rules
- Adding special characters
Formatting with Cascading Style Sheets
- Formatting text - Intro to CSS
- Introducing cascading style sheets (CSS)
- Modifying Page Properties
- Redefining HTML Tags
- Creating Class Styles
- Stylizing Headers
- Creating Style for your links
- Exporting CSS rule definitions
- Attaching external style sheets
- Creating a new external style sheet
- Displaying styles
- Understanding cascading order and inheritance of styles
- Creating internal styles with the Property inspector
Working with Graphics
- Using graphics on web pages
- Importing graphics on the page
- Adding Alt tags (Alternative Text)
- Creating Title Tags for rollover messages
- Modifying image properties (scaling, editing and sharpening images)
- Image Optimization (GIF, JPEG, PNG)
- Managing Your Image Assets
- Creating Favorites
- Doing roundtrip editing with Photoshop
- Creating Rollover Images
- Creating links from images
- Creating Pop-Up Windows
- Adding Flash content
- Adding Flash Video
Navigating Your Site
- Understanding site navigation
- Linking to files in your site
- Linking to external websites
- Linking to certain areas of a page
- Adding e-mail links
- Linking from images
- Creating Image Maps
- Creating Pop-Up Menus
- Creating a jump menu
Using Libraries and Templates
- Using site library items
- Creating site templates
- Defining editable regions
- Using templates
- Applying a template to an existing page
- Modifying templates
Search Engine Optimization
- Learning about SEO
- Creating good Title Tags for your pages
- Using keywords
- Adding Alt tags to images
- Creating Title Tags for Links and Images for Search Engines, Usability & Handicap Accessibility
- Inserting Meta Tags for Search Engines
Testing, Maintaining, and Uploading
- Testing your site
- Maintaining your files and folders
- Connecting to a remote site
- Synchronizing files
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