CS3 Web Bootcamp Course

Highlander's CS3 Web training is a blended learning solution which combines our 5 day instructor led CS3 Web Bootcamp course, with 6 months access to our Learning Management System (LMS) including the CS3 Web training slides and demos, course discussion forums, extensive glossary, additional exercises and samples, and other online learning support.

The 5 day CS3 Web course is run monthly at our London centre or available at your own location, and is a great way to get up and running with the Adobe CS3 Web bundle. The course is suitable for anybody new to the Adobe CS3 Web bundle.

Audience

This course is for people new to web design and development and want to use CS3's website development tools to build intuitive, attractive and accessible websites. You've bought the CS3 Web bundle why only learn a small piece of it.

Prerequisites

Basic PC skills are necessary to complete this course, together with a basic knowledge of web terminology. These skills include: a basic understanding of a computer's operating system, launching an application, creating and saving files, and copying files from CDs and other media.

Course Overview

Introducing the DreamWeaver CS3 Section

  • Understanding the course format
  • Reviewing the course objectives and prerequisites
  • Reviewing the course format
  • Outlining at the course content
  • Understanding static page architecture

Getting Started

  • Introducing Dreamweaver CS3
  • Learning the interface
  • Defining a local site
  • Creating a website

Adding Content to a Site

  • Adding content
  • Controlling document structure
  • Making lists
  • Adding horizontal rules
  • Adding special characters

Formatting with Cascading Style Sheets

  • Formatting text
  • Introducing cascading style sheets
  • Creating styles
  • Exporting CSS rule definitions
  • Creating class styles
  • Attaching external style sheets
  • Creating advanced styles
  • 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
  • Placing graphics on the page
  • Modifying image properties
  • Editing images
  • Doing roundtrip editing with Fireworks
  • Customizing the Insert bar
  • Adding Flash content
  • Adding Flash Video

Navigating Your Site

  • Understanding site navigation
  • Linking to files in your site
  • Linking to sites
  • Linking to named anchors
  • Adding e-mail links
  • Linking from images
  • Creating a jump menu

Designing Page Layouts with CSS

  • Understanding page layout
  • Using layers for layout
  • Adding CSS to layers
  • Using absolute and relative positioning
  • Designing with DIVs
  • Designing navigation links with CSS
  • Importing tabular data
  • Using table layout view

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

Creating Forms

  • Understanding forms
  • Processing a form
  • Setting focus in a form
  • Validating a form

Testing, Maintaining, and Uploading

  • Testing your site
  • Maintaining your files and folders
  • Connecting to a remote site
  • Synchronizing files

Introducing the Flash Section

  • Understanding the course format
  • Reviewing the course objectives and prerequisites
  • Looking at the course outline

Working in Flash

  • Setting Stage dimensions
  • Working with panels and panel layouts
  • Setting preferences
  • Identifying the development cycle
  • Publishing a file

Creating and Importing Graphic Assets

  • Working with different graphic formats
  • Importing bitmap graphics
  • Importing vector graphics
  • Working with layers and layer folders
  • Using the drawing tools
  • Using object and merge drawing
  • Working with the Color panels
  • Creating and using Graphic symbols
  • Using the Library panel

Using Text Effectively

  • Using the Text tool
  • Adding and formatting static text
  • Changing font rendering methods
  • Adding input text fields
  • Embedding fonts in input text fields
  • Using font best practices

Creating Animations

  • Working with the Timeline
  • Using keyframes, blank keyframes, and frames
  • Creating motion tweens
  • Creating shape tweens
  • Creating transition effects
  • Using animation best practices

Adding ActionScript with Script Assist and Behaviors

  • Using Script Assist
  • Adding actions to a frame
  • Creating and using Button symbols
  • Adding behaviors to a button
  • Loading external SWFs

Using Moving Clips

  • Creating and using Movie Clip symbols
  • Organizing a Movie Clip Timeline
  • Using actions to control a Timeline
  • Using frame labels
  • Responding to user interactions

Adding Sound and Video

  • Importing sound
  • Changing sound properties
  • Adding sound to a Timeline
  • Embedding video in a Timeline
  • Using the FLVPlayback component

Publishing Flash Documents

  • Using different publishing formats
  • Using publishing profiles
  • Adding Flash Player detection
  • Publishing for deployment

 

  

Course Facts

Name: CS3 Web Bootcamp
Duration: 5 days
Locations: London, onsite
Max Class: 10 delegates
Post Course Support: 6 months

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Post Course Online Support Including:

Course slides, movies and exercises: You will have 6 months access to course slides, movies and exercises via our Learning Management System (LMS). Refresh your memory or rework something in your own time and environment.

6 Months Post Course Support: You will have 6 months support via the LMS. This is in the form of the course forums in which you can post questions on any topic within the course that you are struggling with, and the instructor (and sometimes other delegates) will respond.

Additional Sample Files: In addition to the files used in the course, the LMS gives you the ability to work through additional sample files, and real world examples thereby extending both your understanding of the CS3 Web bundle and your ability to apply the techniques.

CS3 Glossaries: The CS3 Web training glossaries allow you to search through a wide range of DreamWeaver and Flash CS3 terms, functions, data types etc. Due to the glossary being autolinked within our forums and other material, this also acts as a valuable quick reference directory when working through the material.

Useful Resources: Our instructors spend a vast amount of research time on technologies like DreamWeaver and Flash, and in doing so come across a lot of useful 3rd party material. In this section we republish links to some of the more useful resources they come across, letting you benefit from their research time.

CS3 Web Skills Assessment: As part of the course you will also have the opportunity to take the CS3 Web Skills Assessment test. This multiple choice test is made up of 36 random questions, and is run over a timed period of 30 minutes. It is designed to give you an idea of how well your CS3 Web skills are developing and can be a nice way to measure improvement, not to mention provide feedback to management showing the value of the course.

 

Booking and Dates

The scheduled 5 day CS3 Web Bootcamp training course runs on the following dates at our London centre:

04 Aug 08
01 Sep 08
29 Sep 08
27 Oct 08
24 Nov 08
15 Dec 08