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Course Title:
Dreamweaver MX Essentials

Duration: 2 days

Course Overview
This is a 2 day course aimed at competent PC/Windows users who are familiar with HTML, have little or no experience of using Macromedia Dreamweaver MX and wish to use its features to construct and publish efficient and workable web sites. On completion, those attending should have had sound practical experience of all the topics mentioned in the Course Content.

Target Audience


Each attendee should be a competent PC/Windows user, be familiar with HTML, and have had experience of using a browser to surf the World Wide Web.

Course Content


Dreamweaver Basics
The Document Window
The Object Palette
The launcher
The Property inspector
Working with palettes

Pages and Sites
Working with Web Pages
Defining Sites
Creating a Simple Web
Using the Site Window
Invisible Objects
Using Design Notes

Dreamweaver and HTML
The Quick Tag Editor
The HTML Source Window
Cleaning HTML
Working with Browsers

Basic Page Editing
Formatting InLine Text
Formatting Paragraphs
Applying HTML Styles
Horizontal Rules
Line/Paragraph Breaks
Special Characters

Working With Images
Image Files and Webs
Inserting Images
Storing Images
Manipulating Images
Editing Images
Getting Clip Art

Creating Hyperlinks
Internal and External Links
Relative and Absolute
Creating Hyperlinks
Creating Bookmarks
Editing Hyperlinks
Removing Hyperlinks

Changing Page Properties
Background and Colours
Background Sound
Page Margins
About Page Titles
Keywords, Descriptions

Introducing Tables
Table basics
Borders and Pixels
Alignment
Padding and Cell Spacing
Text Wrapping
Merging, Splitting
Backgrounds, Captions
Headers
Page Layout with Tables

Working With Tables
Inserting and Editing
Table Properties
Cell properties
Table Dimensions
Inserting Cells
Inserting Rows, Columns

Working With Layers
Why Layers?
Inserting Layers
Manipulating Layers
Rulers and Grids
Nested Layers
Stacking Layers
Layers to Tables
Tables to Layers

Introducing Behaviours
Preloading Images
Creating Rollovers
Showing/Hiding Layers
Setting Text

Introducing Templates
Planning Templates
Creating Templates
Pages from Templates
The Template palette
Editable Regions
Attaching Templates
Updating Pages

Working With Forms
About Forms
Adding a Form
Form Properties
Adding Form Objects
Text Areas
Check Boxes
Radio Buttons
Check Boxes
Adding Jump Menus
Tables and Forms

Publishing Webs
Local and Remote Sites
Using FTP
Transferring Files
Synchronising Sites

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