Dreamweaver MX - Core

Overview

Quickly and easily design, develop, and maintain websites and web applications — from start to finish using Dreamweaver MX.

Target Audience

This course is aimed at users who have little or no experience using Dreamweaver MX, users who have used other web development applications and wish to convert to Dreamweaver MX or those who have used previous versions of Dreamweaver and wish to brush up on the new features in this version.

Prerequisites

It is essential that course participants have successfully completed a Windows Introductory course, or have gained a similar level of knowledge within the workplace. Specifically participants need to be fully conversant in:

  • Basic Keyboarding (Shift, Caps Lock, Ctrl etc).
  • Basic Windows Operating System Navigation.
  • Mouse Skills.
  • Web Browsing using Internet Explorer 5 or later.
  • Some understanding of HTML would be an advantage.

Objectives

Upon completion users will gain practical experience in managing web pages using Dreamweaver, using text, tables and links.

Duration

1 day.

Course Content

Workspace

  • Workspace overview
  • Document window
  • Selecting elements
  • Object palette
  • About object files
  • Creating a new object
  • Property inspector
  • Launcher
  • Page Properties dialog box
  • Defining a background image or page colour
  • Defining default text colours
  • Saving and transferring page settings
  • Changing the default document
  • Previewing in browsers
  • Preview in Browser preferences
  • Checking download time and size

Formatting

  • Formatting overview
  • Applying paragraph and heading tags
  • Changing font characteristics
  • Modifying font combinations
  • Changing the colour

Tables

  • Tables overview
  • Inserting a table
  • Adding and removing rows and columns
  • Changing row or column size
  • Combining rows or columns
  • Formatting rows, columns, or cells
  • Adding a table within a table
  • Adding a graphic to a table
  • Table properties

Linking

  • Linking to other pages
  • Linking to other web sites
  • Linking to emails
  • Linking to documents
  • Linking to other parts of the page

Images

  • Image overview
  • Inserting an image
  • Image properties
  • Alignment options
  • Creating image maps
  • Image Map Editor dialog box

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