Adobe Dreamweaver CS4 (Fund.)

Adobe Dreamweaver CS4 Fundamentals
$1,195 / 3 days / 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM EST
(Eastern Standard Time)
A Hands-On, Instructor-Led, Online class

Learn to build a website from the ground up. Dreamweaver is the gold standard for making websites. In this 3-day class you’ll learn how to design, develop, and maintain a fully functioning Web site. Topics include new Dreamweaver CS4 features along with creating and applying style sheets, adding style with images and multimedia, publishing and maintaining a web site, and using hyperlinks to navigate throughout a website or link to other sites on the Internet.

Goals
Build a successful Dreamweaver Web site.

Audience
Lifelong learners new to Web work, including designers, graphic artists, technical writers, e-learning authors, and developers.

Prerequisites
Comfortable use of Windows or Mac operating system. Frequent, competent use of one or more software applications.

Next Steps
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Outline
Jumpstart
- Overview of Dreamweaver features including what’s new in Dreamweaver CS4
- How websites work
- Introduction to HTML
- Creating, opening and saving documents

Creating and Managing a New Site
- Defining a site
- Adding pages
- Managing Files and folders
- Defining page properties

Adding Text and Images
- Typography on the web
- Adding text
- Introduction to styles
- Creating hyperlinks
- Relative vs. absolute links
- Linking to an email address
- Inserting images
- Image formats and resolution

Working with Cascading Style Sheets
- Understanding Style Sheets
- Creating and modifying styles
- Advanced text formatting
- Internal vs. External Style Sheets
- Creating page layouts with CSS

Managing Site Design
- Using Snippets
- Introducing Library items
- Creating new pages from templates
- Repeating regions

Using Tables
- Using tables for layout
- Tables vs. CSS

Managing Your Website:
- Transfering files to a remote server
- Checking links sitewide
- Search engine optimization
- Site Launch Checklist
- Launching your site