Adobe Dreamweaver makes it easy to work with advanced website techniques such as frames, Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), layers and JavaScript.
Choosing a predefined frameset automatically sets up all the framesets and frames needed to create the layout and is the easiest way to create a frames-based layout quickly.
Adobe Dreamweaver uses Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) to format text. The styles that you apply to text using the Property inspector or menu commands create CSS rules that are embedded in the head of the current document. CSS styles provide you with greater flexibility and control over the appearance of your page, from the precise positioning of layout to specific fonts and text styles.
With Adobe Dreamweaver, you can use layers to lay out your page. You can place layers in front of and behind each other, hide some layers while showing others, and move layers across the screen. You can place a background image in one layer, then place a second layer, containing text with a transparent background, in front of that.
Adobe Dreamweaver behaviors place JavaScript code in documents to allow visitors to interact with a web page to change the page in various ways, or to cause certain tasks to be performed. Adobe Dreamweaver provides about two dozen behavior actions; additional actions can be found on the Adobe website as well as on third-party developer sites. (See Downloading and installing third-party behaviors.) You can write your own behavior actions if you are proficient in JavaScript.
Users: Creative, Design, Web Development, IT and Admin Professionals who are as well as anyone who needs to create, maintain and enhance corporate or personal websites, Intranets, Web-based communications such as newsletters and email promotions.
Duration: One-Day Course
Platform: Windows and Macintosh
Fee: Call DPA
This class is limited to eight people.
*Note: As of February 2011 DPA Communications will offer Adobe Acrobat, InDesign, Photoshop, Illustrator, Fireworks, Premiere, After Effects, Dreamweaver, Flash and Flash Catalyst courses on version CS5 (Creative Suite 5).
If you are currently using previous versions see the CS4 version of this course outline for any differences in training course content. Please contact DPA for more details or to have an instructor contact you.
This course is designed to give you expert understanding of Dreamweaver CS5 and its capabilities. You will build AJAX pages with the SPRY Framework, connect data sets to dynamic tables and work with XML and XSL files.
An overview of building dynamic content through PHP will be covered as well. This course will also cover more in-depth techniques of turning a table based layout into a full CSS page as well as additional ways of extending Dreamweaver, such as installing and building a custom behavior, running reports, checking and validating links, cloaking and Design Notes.
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