DreamWeaver Training - DreamWeaver CS3 Web Development

Highlander's Dreamweaver CS3 training is a blended learning solution which combines our 3 day Adobe authorised instructor led Dreamweaver CS3 training course, with 6 months access to our Learning Management System (LMS) including the Dreamweaver CS3 training course slides and demos, discussion forums, extensive glossaries, additional exercises and samples, and other online learning support.

The 3 day Dreamweaver CS3 training course is run monthly at our London centre or available at your own location, and is a proven and effective way to get up and running with Dreamweaver CS3. The course is suitable for anybody new to Dreamweaver CS3.

1: Introduction to Website Development

Here you'll learn about what you need to know before you set up a site. What questions should be asked - before you even create one page with DreamWeaver.

2: Site setup

  • Setting up a site (with a view to standardisation)
  • Installing a web server - xamp, mamp, custom
  • local vs remote directories
  • Home page setup - home/index/default
  • File naming conventions

3: Basic page markup

  • Marking up a page with text, headers, paragraphs, lists, hrs, etc
  • special characters
  • html

4: Links

  • Linking pages
  • Linking sections
  • Linking to outside pages
  • Linking to paragraphs

5: Images

  • Inserting an image into a page
    • in-line/flow text around
    • backgrounds
    • as buttons
    • rollovers
  • Editing a placed image
  • Image properties
  • Image maps

6: Simple tables

  • Simple layout
    • rows/columns - formatting
    • height/width
    • text/graphics inside tables

7: Page extras

  • meta tags
  • head content
  • javascript

8: Inserting video and flash content

  • Inserting video
  • Inserting flash content

9: CSS - formatting a page

  • Creating css rules
  • Formatting text - colour, font-size, etc
  • Formatting the background
  • Applying css rules to tags - body, em, strong, ul, etc
  • Applying css to several pages at once - external css files

10: CSS layout

  • One box layout - creating a single box (div) and changing its position and formatting
    • 2 box layout
    • 3 box layout
    • 1 box, 2 column layout
    • 1 box, 2 column, centred layout

11: CSS with tables and forms

  • Using css to format a table - borders, backgrounds, etc
  • Using css to format a form - buttons, backgrounds, borders, etc

12: CSS and Images

  • Using css to apply images as backgrounds - changing their position, etc
  • 2 picture example - how to use css to apply the same picture in two places, but make it look as one - each copy of the picture having a slightly different opacity

13: CSS and links

  • Hover
  • Blocks
  • Borders
  • Using a list as a navigation bar

14: Lab - Create your own web site

  • Here you will create your own web site: You will start from scratch - creating a new site definition within dreamweaver.
  • You will create 24 pages using your own design, creating your own css to apply your own formatting.
  • Text can be downloaded or brought in.
  • Images can be downloaded or brought in from outside - buttons, backgrounds, pictures etc.
  • At the end of this lab you will successfully have created your own minisite using the techniques taught previously.

15: Assets

  • Templates
  • Library items
  • Other assets

16: Site Management

  • Uploading/downloading files
  • Search and replace
  • Spell checking
  • Accessibility reports
  • Other reports
  • Help
  • Reference material
  • Masking files

 

  

Course Facts

Name: DreamWeaver CS3 Website Development
Duration: 3 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 post course 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 post course 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 DreamWeaver and your ability to apply the techniques.

DreamWeaver CS3 Glossary: The DreamWeaver CS3 Glossary allows you to search through a wide range of DreamWeaver 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 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.

DW CS3 Skills Assessment: As part of the course you will also have the opportunity to take the DreamWeaver CS3 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 DreamWeaver CS3 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 3 day DreamWeaver CS3 training course runs on the following dates at our London centre:

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