Dreamweaver CS4 Training

Class description

The foremost web development application, Adobe Dreamweaver CS4 includes CSS tools, Ajax components for building dynamic user interfaces, and intelligent integration with other Adobe software. In this 3-day intensive hands-on training you will learn to use Dreamweaver for professional website creation and file management, how to conceptualize and plan a website, get comfortable with the fundamentals of HTML and cascading style sheets, learn best practices, create pages with links & interactivity and employ the power of Dreamweaver for site maintenance. Topics include:

Information architecture basics
HTML fundamentals
Using CSS effectively
Web page construction

Adding JavaScript interactivity
Adding Spry interactivity
Working with images
Publishing to the web

adobe course curriculum

Getting started with your website

Information architecture basics
Conceptualizing your site
Setting up site file structure
File naming conventions
Defining a Dreamweaver site

Getting acquainted with the Dreamweaver interface

Workspace presets and customization
Working with the properties panel
Adjusting tool bars
Optimizing preference settings
Code view, split view & live view

Adding text to your web pages

Entering headlines and body text
Importing external text
Creating numbered and bulleted lists
Building tables
Importing tabular data
Spell checking your document
Searching and replacing text

Styling pages with CSS

Understanding CSS syntax
IDs, selector styles and custom classes
Specificity and inherited style
Defining new CSS rules
Exporting CSS rules to an external style sheet
Linking to an external style sheet
Defining CSS media types

Designing with images

Images and image placeholders
Understanding web graphic formats: .gif, .jpg, png
Image optimization for the web
Inserting an image
Using background images
Working with Photoshop smart objects

Inserting links

Linking to internal site pages
Creating external links
Setting up email links
Working with named anchors

Crafting standards-compliant CSS page layouts

Planning your page layout
Building a semantically correct page
Accessibility,cross-browser compatibility & future proofing
DIVs vs tables for page layout
Styling div elements
Using rulers and guides

Adding interactivity to your pages

Working with Dreamweaver behaviors
About Ajax and Spry
XML basics
Understanding Spry data sets
Working with Spry widgets

HTML forms overview

Form construction basics
Name:value pairs
Naming conventions
Inserting form elements

Publishing to the web

Defining a remote site
Putting your site online
Site maintenance tips and tricks

Introduction to Adobe Dreamweaver CS4 Hands-on Training

Mira Images

Adobe Dreamweaver CS4 Training

3 day class, cost: $1125

Students receive a course text, Adobe Dreamweaver CS4: Classroom in a Book, which includes a CD of class files. These resources provide students with a valuable tool for post-training practice, using familiar files and lessons.

All Mira Images Adobe authorized training is provided by certified instructors at our location or yours. Because we know your time is valuable,

We will never cancel your class.

The Mira Images Classroom is located just outside of Philadelphia, PA and is convenient to Harrisburg, PA; New York, NY; New Jersey; Baltimore, MD; Wilmington, DE; and Washington DC.