Aims and Objectives
To teach website creation skills to Adobe Certified Associate level using this popular web design program.
Target Audiences
Those with some computer competency and familiar with the internet who want to learn how to use Dreamweaver CD4 to create websites.
Prerequisites
Competence with Windows Explorer, and familiarity with the Internet and browsers
Course duration
120 hours
Course Code
Course Content
Unit 1: – Including: Fundamentals of the World Wide Web, What is HTML? Exploring Web Pages with Web Browsers, HTML Tags, Attributes and Styles, WYSIWIG, Viewing Source Codes
Unit Two – Including: Planning a Site from the Ground Up, Identify Target Audience, Planning Site Content, Paths and Site Structure, Defining a Website in Dreamweaver, Adding Folders and Files
Unit Three – Including: The Dreamweaver Interface, Setting the Workspace View, The Functional Areas of Dreamweaver CS4, Split and Design Views, The Insert Panel, The Document Window, The Properties Inspector
Unit Four – Including: Layouts and Alignments, Modifying Page Backgrounds, Setting Page Margins, Setting Text and Link Colours, Colour Considerations in Web Design, Previewing Pages in a Browser
Unit Five – Including: Understanding Text and Typefaces, Text Formatting with the Properties Inspector, Understanding Font Styles, Using Lists and Indents, Creating Hyperlinks
Unit Six – Including: Working with Images, Image File Formats for the Internet, Inserting Images into a Web Page, Creating a Navigation Bar with Images, Inserting Rollover Images, Images and Copyright Issues, Inserting Flash Video, Using Adobe Bridge CS4
Unit Seven – Including: Page Layout Principles, Cascading Style Sheets, Document Type Declaration, CSS Positioning, Creating Page Divisions, Creating Columns, Exporting to External Style Sheet
Unit Eight – Including: Advanced Page Design with CSS, Creating Custom Classes, Creating Descendant Selectors, Conditional Comments for Internet Explorer, Adding a Print Style Sheet
Unit Nine – Including: Automated Design Tools, Creating and Using Library Items, Creating a New Template, Designing with Behaviours, Dreamweaver Extensions
Unit Ten – Including: Tables, Forms and Media, Processing Forms, Working with Menus, Radio Buttons and Checkboxes, Working with Plug-Ins, Inserting a Spry Tabbed Panel
Unit Eleven – Including: Publishing and Managing Site Files, Choosing a Web-Hosting Service, Managing File Transfers with the Site Panel
Appendix: Working as Part of a Team
Preparing for the Adobe Certified Associate Exam
