Dreamweaver MX: Boot Camp

Course Specifications

Course length: 2 days

Course Description

Target Student:  This course is designed primarily for new or prospective Web designers who want a comprehensive course that covers everything needed to use Macromedia Dreamweaver to create Web sites efficiently.

Prerequisites:  To ensure your success, you must have a basic understanding of your computer's operating system. For example, you should know how to launch an application, create and save files, and copy files from CDs and other media.

Delivery Method:  Instructor-led, group-paced, classroom-delivery learning model with structured hands-on activities.

Benefits:  After completing this course, students will be able to create Web sites that include frame-based pages, tables, graphics, and links. Students will be able to create Web sites that include simple rollovers, complex navigation bars, and other page elements that provide visual feedback. Students will learn techniques for creating complex Web sites efficiently.

What's Next:  Students who want to learn to prepare images for use on Web sites may want to take the Photoshop Boot Camp. Students who want to learn to prepare animation for use on Web sites may want to take the Flash Boot Camp.

Performance-Based Objectives

• Explain basic concepts about the Internet and the World Wide Web, identify the basic issues concerning proper site design, and navigate in the Dreamweaver work environment.
• Define a site in Dreamweaver to organize and maintain the Web pages; and create a basic Web page by typing text and applying character and paragraph formatting.
• Use Site Panel to create and organize files and folders.
• Insert images, set image properties, create and format tables.
• Add links within a site, create anchors, and specify external links, as well as use images as links, and create image maps.
• Build a frame-based set of pages.
• Upload a site to a remote Web server.
• Create dynamic user-interface elements, including simple rollovers and complex navigation bars.
• Use libraries to manage repeating site elements.
• Create CSS styles to streamline text formatting within a page, and create external style sheets to allow formatting information to be used throughout a site.
• Create and manage layers, as well as combine layers with behaviors to provide additional visual feedback for a viewer navigating a site.
• Use the History panel to simplify repetitive tasks both within a single document and with other documents in a site.
• Target page content to specific browsers and versions.
• Add a form to your web page.

Course Content

Day 1 Agenda

Lesson 1: Internet Access and HTML

Topic 1A: Internet Access and HTML

Topic 1B: Planning Web Sites

Topic 1C: The Dreamweaver Environment

Topic 1D: Viewing and Managing HTML Code

Lesson 2: Creating a Web Site

Topic 2A: Defining a Web Site

Topic 2B: Creating a Basic Web Page

Topic 2C: Page Properties

Lesson 3: Building a Web Site

Topic 3A: The Site Panel

Topic 3B: Templates

Lesson 4: Adding Content to Web Pages

Topic 4A: List Formats

Topic 4B: Images

Topic 4C: Tables

Topic 4D: Templates Containing Repeating Regions

Lesson 5: Working with Links

Topic 5A: Links within a Site

Lesson 6: Enhancing Navigation in a Site

Topic 6A: Framesets

Topic 6B: Re-Usable Navigation Bars

Lesson 7: Managing and Uploading a Web Site

Topic 7A: The Site Map

Day 2 Agenda

Lesson 1: Rollovers and Navigation Bars

Topic 1A: Rollovers

Topic 1B: Adding Image States to a Navigation Bar Using Behaviors

Topic 1C: Using the Insert Navigation Bar Tool

Topic 1D: Flash Buttons and Text

Lesson 2: Libraries

Topic 2A: Creating a Library

Topic 2B: Modifying Library Items within the Library Panel

Lesson 3: Defining Head Elements and Managing Keyboard Shortcuts

Topic 3A: Defining Head Elements

Topic 3B: Editing Meta Tags

Topic 3C: Customizing Keyboard Shortcuts

Lesson 4: Style Sheets

Topic 4A: Defining Style Sheets

Topic 4B: Applying Style Sheets to Multiple Pages

Lesson 5: Layers

Topic 5A: Creating Layers

Topic 5B: Using the Layers Panel

Topic 5C: Layer Styles

Topic 5D: Layers and Behaviors

Topic 5E: Inserting Rich Media Objects

Lesson 6: The History panel

Topic 6A: The History panel

Topic 6B: Recording Steps

Topic 6C: Saving Steps to the Commands Menu

Lesson 7: Browser Targeting and Code Tools

Topic 7A: Browser Compatibility

Topic 7B: Converting Pages to Earlier Versions

Topic 7C: Browser Checking

Topic 7D: Coding Tools

Lesson 8: Creating Forms

Topic 8A: Setting Up Forms

Topic 8B: Adding Form Elements

Topic 8C: Validating and Testing Forms