Web Design & Development with Dreamweaver CS4

This comprehensive course teaches you more than just how to use Adobe Dreamweaver. It teaches you to avoid the common mistakes many new web designers make, and it will give you the confidence to start building quality websites quickly and easily. The use of Cascading Style Sheets in website design has evolved much over the years and is now a prerequisite of any good website, this course will demonstrate the importnance of CSS and the real benefits of uising them in your website design. You will also look at many modern design techniques such as Spry and Flash to ensure your website it eyecatching as well as functional.

Course Content

Planning & Defining A Site - The importance of planning, Defining site location, Adding folders

Introduction to Adobe Dreamweaver - The Dreamweaver Interface, Code & Design Views

A Web Page - Creating a new HTML page: Creating page elements, Previewing a page in a browser

Introduction to Good HTML - Validating Your Code, Organisation and Maintenance Techniques, Working with tables, External and Internal Hyperlinks,

Images & Colour - Choosing the Correct Graphics Format, Optimising Graphics for the Web, Rollover buttons, Image maps. Defining Colours and using Colour on the web. Editing Images with Fireworks and Photoshop. Slicing Images

Templates - Creating a site template, Adding 'editable regions' to templates, Applying templates to site pages, Editing a template

Accessibility - Creating Accessible Sites, HTML and CSS Accessibility Techniques, Browser and Platform Issues, Using Browser Detection Scripts, Publicising Your Web Site, Promoting Your Site: Meta Content, understanding search engines

Usability - Principles of Usability, Simple Usability Techniques, Designing Effective Navigation

Cascading Style Sheets - Creating & linking Stylesheets, creating rules with elements, classes and selectors, text and font properties, positioning, Conflicts and rule order.

Adding Flash - Adding Buttons, Navigation, Animations & Video Elements to a Page

Spry - Using Dreamweavers Spry widgets: Spry menu bar, Spry tabbed panel, Spry accordion, Spry collapsible panel

Maintaining Your Website - Publishing & Uploading and Maintaining online websites, using rented servers