Dreamweaver Training

Our Introductory Dreamweaver training course starts you off with practical hands-on instruction that enables you to master the basics of website design and development.

Understanding Dreamweaver Basics

The websites that you see in your browser are the result of a collaborative effort that involves HTML, CSS, JavaScript, image and other files. In this section of our Dreamweaver training class, we show you the difference between these different types of files and how they interact with each other. Then, we'll focus on the initial steps of creating a website, so that you will be able to:

Define and edit a website in Dreamweaver
Understand how Dreamweaver manages the relationship between files
Create a sitemap of files in a website
Update file links and edit file locations

Creating a Basic Page

Even the most complex web page begins with three simple elements: text, graphics and links. Learning how to add and position these elements on a page also allows you to glimpse the code that Dreamweaver crafts in the background, and to understand more about the relationship between HTML and CSS. This section will teach you how to:

Add paragraphs of text with line breaks
Choose appropriate graphic formats, and place them on your page
Align text and graphics
Create links from images and text
Insert META tags to assist in the classification of your webpage

Adding Hyperlinks and Image Tools

In the previous exercise we introduced you to some basics, but Dreamweaver offers a multitude of ways to work with auxiliary files such as image and hyperlinked files. Since linking and the relationships between files are largely what characterize the web, Dreamweaver provides a rich toolset for creating inter-file relationships. After this exercise, you will be able to:

Use the Dreamweaver pointer tool to create links between files
Work with placeholder images
Create email and anchor links
Link to different file types

Developing Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)

An attention-getting site is composed of its design aspects: fonts, colors, spacing and layout. On the web, these aesthetics are not handled with HTML, but rather with a different language specifically suited for design and styling called CSS.

Typically separate from the HTML file, these style sheets are made up of all of the design choices that apply to one or more of your web pages - an arrangement that allows global design changes to be made quickly and efficiently. After completing this section, you should be able to:

Understand basic CSS syntax
Control the basic properties of a page using CSS
Export styles into an external style sheet
Create and attach style sheets to your web pages
Use CSS Styles Panel in Dreamweaver

Dreamweaver: Working with Tables

When web sites were first being developed, designers used tables - essentially just rows and columns - to structure the page. Although much less functional and adaptable than CSS, tables are still used for sections of a page (or occasionally a whole page), so understanding tables and their various components is important. After completing this section you should be able to:

Create a table and place content within its cells
Use Dreamweaver and HTML to specify display properties such as borders and backgrounds
Use CSS to modify the display properties of a table
Align the table's content

Publishing Your Website with Dreamweaver

Once you finish building your web site locally, you need to test the web site to ensure it behaves the way you intended it. We show you how to quickly test for broken links, to ensure all images display correctly, and to spell check every page. We will also show you how to upload your site and maintain it. After completing this section, you should be able to:

Test your web pages for accessibility and broken links
Define and connect to a remote server
Upload your pages to a remote site
Synchronize your sites to upload changed pages

Prerequisites:

A solid understanding of Windows’ file management, the concepts of right-clicking and selecting object properties

Dreamweaver training offered at four locations::

Dreamweaver Fundamentals Training