Course Content

Introducing Dreamweaver

• The Dreamweaver interface
• Customising the Dreamweaver workspace
• Setting up preview in web browsers
• Opening web pages

HTML and CSS basics

• Basics of HTML
• Basics of CSS
• Creating an HTML page from scratch
• DocType explained
• Styling a page with HTML

Working with CSS

• Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) explained
• Introduction to CSS3 new features
• Creating a page with CSS
• Customising the layout of a web page
• Adding content

Working with images

• Using images on a Web Page
• Floating images and text around them
• Resizing images
• Modifying images with Dreamweaver
• Modifying images with Photoshop
• Adjusting images’ brightness and contrast
• Sharpening images with Dreamweaver

Working with video

• HTML5 video explained
• Placing HTML5 video on a page
• Adding alternate video formats

Formatting pages with CSS

• Creating a stylesheet
• Formatting text with CSS
• New CSS designer
• Creating new CSS rules
• Creating new CSS classes
• Cascading explained
• Customising CSS rules
• Exporting CSS rules to external stylesheet
• Attaching external stylesheet

Incorporating navigation

• Navigation as part of usability
• Creating internal links
• Creating external links
• Linking to files
• Email links
• Targeted links (named anchors)
• Navigation bars

Working with templates

• How templates work
• Creating a template
• Creating editable regions within template
• New pages from a template
• Changing templates
• Updating a site

Publishing your Website

• Testing your web pages
• Setting up website for remote connection
• Connecting to a remote site
• Uploading files to a web server
• Synchronising files with a remote server