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Adobe Dreamweaver - Advanced
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Adobe Dreamweaver
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.
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Adobe Dreamweaver CS3*
Advanced
Course Information
Duration: Two-Day Course
Platform: Windows and Macintosh
Fee: $765 CDN (+GST)
This class is limited to eight people.
*As of January 1, 2008 all Adobe InDesign, Photoshop, Illustrator, Dreamweaver and Flash courses will be on version CS3 unless otherwise indicated. If you are currently are using previous versions you can still benefit from attending this course.
Please contact DPA for more details or to have an instructor contact you.
Course Overview
The Advanced course will take you to the next level of Dreamweaver expertise. We will explore webpage management more deeply, the creation of external and internal Cascading Style Sheets, integrating behaviours with layers, creating image maps, opening windows, using Advanced Dreamweaver Templates, adding sound and Flash elements, and much more. We will explore JavaScript functions, edit in the code view editor, and students will learn how to write custom JavaScript functions that merge seamlessly with Dreamweaver code. This course is a hands on guided tour of the process of producing a media rich interactive site.
Course Content
- Use the Site Definition Advanced Mode to set up a site
- Adding Files and Folders in the Files Panel
- Advanced Custom CSS Rules
- Advanced Redefined HTML Tags
- Using Advanced Selectors
- Advanced Editing of CSS Styles
- Unique CSS Techniques
- Building and working with external style sheets
- Handling multiple style sheets
- Using Javascript to dynamically serve Style Sheets
- Inserting <div> objects
- Setting <div> properties dynamically
- Building a CSS-based layout from scratchControlling layout sitewide
- Creating a Dreamweaver Template
- Using a Template to Create Child Pages
- Applying a Template to an Existing Page
- Adding interactivity with Dreamweaver’s behaviours
- Working with Assets
Time Permitting:
- Adding a Flash Movie and Setting its Properties
- Inserting a Flash Element
- Adding a Flash Button
- Adding video to pages
- Handling audio files
- Creating library items
- Inserting and Editing Library Items
- Using spry widgets and spry effects
Calendar Dates:
Aug 14/15, 2008
Sep 30/Oct 1, 2008
Oct 8/9, 2008
Nov 6/7, 2008
Dec 11/12, 2008
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