Intermediate Adobe Dreamweaver CS3
Take your Adobe
Dreamweaver skills to the next level under the tutelage of a proven Web
development expert. Examine pure CSS layout and learn how to incorporate
multimedia elements such as Flash video and audio. Discover the uses of XML
and XSL.
In this new intermediate-level Dreamweaver class, you'll learn to harness
the power of this industry-standard Web design tool. During this hands-on
training, you'll learn how to use standards-compliant Cascading Style Sheets
to create Web pages that are easier to maintain and more search
engine-friendly.
To enroll in this course, click the Enroll Now button below:
Requirements:
Adobe Dreamweaver CS3 (please be sure to install this software on your computer before the course begins); Microsoft Windows Vista or XP or Macintosh OS X; completion of Robert Fuller's Introduction to Dreamweaver CS3 online course (or equivalent experience); the ability to install programs on your computer and work with files; Internet access, e-mail, the Microsoft Internet Explorer or Mozilla Firefox Web browser, and the Adobe Flash and PDF plug-ins (two free and simple downloads you obtain at http://www.adobe.com/downloads by clicking Get Adobe Flash Player and Get Adobe Reader).
Syllabus:
All courses run for six weeks, with a two-week grace period at the end.
Two lessons are released each week for the six-week duration of the course.
You do not have to be present when the lesson is released, but you must
complete each lesson within two weeks of its release.
A new section of each course starts on the second or third Wednesday of each
month. If enrolling in a series of two or more courses, please be sure to
space the start date for each course at least two months apart.
| Week One |
| Wednesday - Lesson 01 |
| In our first lesson, you'll get familiar with the
code Adobe Dreamweaver generates in response to the steps you
perform in the WYSIWYG interface. Intimidated by code? Don't be. By
the end of this lesson, you'll be well on your way to a complete
understanding of exactly how HTML, XHTML, CSS, and JavaScript work
together to build your site content. All previous non-coders will
come away with these topics demystified, and code-savvy users will
learn the various ways Dreamweaver enhances code editing. |
| Friday - Lesson 02 |
| Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) have been with us
since the mid 90s. Yet, because of the slow state of browser
development, CSS is only now taking its rightful place at the center
of modern Web design. CSS governs content presentation, while HTML
and XHTML handle document structure. In this lesson, we'll take a
closer look at CSS, see how it works hand-in-hand with markup, and
examine the various tools Dreamweaver gives us to work with CSS in a
WYSIWYG environment. |
| Week Two |
| Wednesday - Lesson 03 |
| Well-structured navigation elements are the
backbone of every successful Web site. In the past, designers
attempted to make their navigation elements stand out using various
image and JavaScript-based effects, more often than not,
guaranteeing their navigation was anything but well-structured.
Fortunately, there's a cure: list-based navigation elements. In this
lesson, we'll expand our CSS horizons and discover how to format our
structured lists any way we like. |
| Friday - Lesson 04 |
| In print design, there's a level of consistency
that just isn't possible on the Web. This is because every copy of a
book, magazine, or brochure is virtually identical. On the Web, we
don't have the same luxury. People view our sites through different
browsers, with different operating systems, and at different screen
resolutions. Our job as designers is to try and create as much of a
uniform user experience as possible given these rather wide
parameters. It isn't always easy, but there are steps we can take to
make it more so. Today, we'll discuss some basic Web design
principles, develop a layout strategy, and begin building the first
of our in-class site pages. This page will ultimately become the
template for the subsequent pages in our site. |
| Week Three |
| Wednesday - Lesson 05 |
| In today's lesson, we'll focus on Dreamweaver
templates. Templates become a real asset when you have other people
working on site content who are not Web designers themselves. A
Dreamweaver template allows you to fix the layout of pages so
inexperienced folks can't mess them up when they're updating
content. No more, "Oops, Boss! I went to update the tip of the week
message and now the links have disappeared!" You'll learn just what
Dreamweaver templates do, how to build them, and how to apply them
to the pages of our site. |
| Friday - Lesson 06 |
| Do you own a printer? I bet you do or at least
have access to one. Ever print a Web page? I'm sure you have. Now,
do you own a cell phone too? How about a PDA, like a Palm Pilot?
Maybe a Blackberry device? Guess what? All of these devices are
Web-enabled. People use them to access the Internet, read their
e-mail, and browse Web pages. Today, you're going to learn all about
styling our pages for devices other than the browser. We'll look at
the different types of devices we can style for and examine some of
the tools Dreamweaver provides to make styling for devices easier. |
| Week Four |
| Wednesday - Lesson 07 |
| I'm sure you've heard the word accessibility
mentioned in reference to creating Web content. While I'm sure you
have some idea of what it means, I've got a hunch you need to know
more. Accessibility refers to Section 508 of the U.S. Federal
Rehabilitation Act, and it deals with making site content accessible
for users with disabilities. In today's lesson, we'll examine the
deeper meaning of Web site accessibility, learn its basic concepts,
and discover how to keep Dreamweaver on the ball,
accessibility-wise, so anyone can use your site with ease. |
| Friday - Lesson 08 |
| Have you been to YouTube to watch videos? Or have
you been to Amazon.com to preview music? These types of audio and
video files are known as media objects. A media object is any
type of file that requires the browser to call upon a helper
application in order to view or play it. For example, Flash,
QuickTime, Windows Media, Real Media, and MPEG audio. In today's
lesson, we'll talk about what media objects are, what software is
required to play them, and the various techniques Dreamweaver has
for placing this type of content in the sites we build. |
| Week Five |
| Wednesday - Lesson 09 |
| If you've ever used Dreamweaver to create an
image rollover or image-based navigation bar, you've been using
JavaScript. In Dreamweaver, any predefined JavaScript-based effect
is called a behavior. These Dreamweaver behaviors allow you to swap
images, generate pop-up windows, as well as more than 20 other
possible effects. In this lesson, we'll examine the interface for
working with behaviors and discover how to implement some of the
more useful ones. |
| Friday - Lesson 10 |
| Forms allow information to be passed between the
site visitor and the Web server. For the Web server to use the data
visitors enter, there must be a processing script on the server.
This script, or groups of scripts, accepts the data and does
something with it. But in order to use a form, you need to build it
first. In today's lesson, we'll focus on the creation of form pages,
their formatting, and their layout. |
| Week Six |
| Wednesday - Lesson 11 |
| Everybody wants to know how to build dynamic Web
sites—sites whose pages are generated on the fly via databases and
scripting languages. Well, we have to walk before we can run. So,
we're going to start small, using the Extensible Markup Language
(XML). In today's lesson, we're going to take a look at what XML is,
create a simple XML database, and then learn how to pull data out of
our small database and format it with the Extensible Stylesheet
Language (XSL)—all without a lick of programming! |
| Friday - Lesson 12 |
| Everyone who wants to be a Web designer should
have a firm understanding of who they're designing for and how best
to meet the needs of their audience. In today's lesson, we'll step
away from Dreamweaver and take a look at the single-most important
component of the Web—people. You'll discover some of the basic
truths behind how people read Web content and learn how best to
structure your content to facilitate and fascinate your readers. |
To enroll in this course, click the Enroll Now button below:
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