All our courses are customised to meet your objectives, but based on a solid foundation as reccommended by Adobe in their official course content.

All our courses are instructor led and very hands-on, going in to much details than the other courses. This Make the courses more relevant to your interests, skill levels and objectives. By incorporating real live work where possible, this also increases your involvement in the material and enhances your learning and recollection of the course material in addition to producing usable work!

Typical Dreamweaver CS3 Course Outline

Introducing the Course

• Understanding the course format
• Reviewing the course objectives and prerequisites
• Looking at the course outline

Getting started

• Introduction to Dreamweaver
• Dreamweaver interface basics
• Creating a local site
• Creating a new HTML page
• Using development views
• Previewing pages
• Setting document properties

Adding content to a site

• Adding content
• Importing text files
• Importing Word and Excel content
• Controlling document structure
• Creating lists
• Adding special characters

Formatting text with CSS

• Formatting text
• Cascading Style Sheets
• Creating styles
• Exporting CSS rule definitions
• Creating class styles
• Creating advanced styles

External styles

• Attaching external style sheets
• Creating new external style sheets
• Displaying styles
• Cascading order and inheritance of styles
• Creating internal styles

Working with graphics

• Seamless integration with Photoshop and Fireworks
• Placing graphics on the page
• Accessibility settings
• Importing layered images
• Optimising an image
• Adding Flash content

Navigating your site

• Linking files to your site
• Adding anchors
• Adding email links
• Linking from images
• Linking from an image map
• Creating a navigation bar
• Inserting a jump menu

Using libraries and templates

• Creating library items
• Placing and editing library items
• Detaching library items
• Creating templates
• Applying a template to an existing page
• Defining editable regions
• Modifying templates

Designing pages with CSS

• Dreamweaver CSS templates
• Inserting DIV tags
• Using the rulers and guides
• Drawing layers to design your pages
• Adding CSS to a layer
• Using visual aids for DIV tags
• Attaching external style sheets
• Adding tables
• The Spry Framework for Ajax - an overview
• Importing tabular data
• The Adobe CSS Advisor website

Creating forms

• Creating a form
• Form processing
• Setting focus on a form
• Adding JavaScript
• Form validation in Dreamweaver

Testing, maintenance and uploading

• Checking accessibility, links and browser compatibility
• Using the integrated File Browser
• Connecting to a remote site
• Cloaking folders and files
• Uploading files
• Synchronising files
• Using browser compatibility check