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Dreamweaver 8 Training Course & Tutorials Online
Free sample lesson: Changing Stacking Order
This Online Dreamweaver training course delves into the many powerful features of this very popular web design application. The course not only covers the basic concepts of website design but also everything from the basics of using Dreamweaver 8 to developing and creating a fully interactive, accessible website. It explains and demonstrates how to create, edit, manage, design and publish a professional website with Dreamweaver 8.
The course is carefully designed to make even the most complex topics simple so you can quickly master Dreamweaver. The training tutorials demonstrate how to set up a web site, manage the files within, layout web pages, working with tables, forms, Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), add interactive features to web pages using behaviours and much much more.
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Dreamweaver 8 Training Course
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Chapter 1 - Web Design Essentials
HTML vs XHTML
Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)
JavaScript
File naming conventions
Chapter 2 - Dreamweaver 8 Interface
Setting up the workspace
The Start page
The Insert bar
The Properties Inspector
The document toolbar
The Document Window
Panel and panel groups
Saving workspace layouts
How to define your browser of choice
Exploring the Menu bar
Chapter 3 - Site Management
Defining a site from scratch
Setting up an existing site
File and folder management
Creating a site map
Chapter 4 - Managing Documents
Creating new documents
Adding & formatting text
Web fonts
Web images
Inserting & Aligning images
Page properties
Using meta tags
Chapter 5 - Creating Links
Linking images & text
Email links
Named anchors
Image maps
Linking to files
Chapter 6 - Tables
Creating and understanding tables
Modifying tables
Formatting tables
Nested tables and borders
Inserting delimited data
Sorting & formatting tables
Chapter 7 - Layers
Creating layers
Creating a tracing image
Modifying layers
Changing stacking order of layers
Converting between layers to tables
Chapter 8 - Frames
Understanding frames and framesets
Creating frames and framesets
Saving framesets
Linking and setting targets
Chapter 9 - Cascading Style Sheet (CSS) Essentials
Introduction to CSS
Redefine HTML tags with CSS
Creating a new class style
Creating external style sheets
Applying external style sheets
Modifying style sheets
Defining rules for styles
Chapter 10 - Forms
Creating a form
Adding text fields and text areas
Adding radio buttons, list menus & check boxes
Buttons and form properties
Validating form
Creating a jump menu
Chapter 11 - Rollovers
Creating a simple rollover
Multiple event rollovers
Creating flash text and buttons
Inserting navigation bars
Chapter 12 - Behaviours
About behaviours
Creating a pop-up window
Creating a pop-up menu
Setting text of text fields
Obtaining more behaviours
Managing extensions
Chapter 13 - Working with XHTML Code
Code viewing options
Editing code
The coding toolbar
Using the quick tag editor
Using and creating code snippets
Chapter 14 - Using Templates and Library Items
About templates
Creating a template
Applying a template
Modifying a template
Creating a library item
Modifying a library item
Chapter 15 - Automation
Repeating tasks
Creating dreamweaver commands
Using find and replace
Chapter 16 - Working with Multimedia
Linking to media
Embedding media
Using parameters to control multimedia
Inserting a flash file
Chapter 17 - Publishing a Site to the Internet
Site report
Checking links
Signing up and entering remote server information
Publish to hosting server
Updating site
