Website Development with Dreamweaver

 

taught by Brian Lombardi

 

Course Objectives

  • To understand the patterns of HTML and basic CSS for text formatting
  • To understand the structure and properties of building web sites with Tables
  • To understand how background images are created and used in Tables
  • To understand how to optimize photos for web sites
  • To understand how various types of links are created

Text: Dreamweaver CS4 On Demand, Que books.

Syllabus


Day
Class Description
1

Class Introductions and Basic HTML

The process of working between an Editing Program and your Browser
Basic HTML code - using the "old-fashioned" tags

2

Introduction to Dreamweaver

1. Explanation of Website File Structures
2. Dreamweaver Layout. Pages 16-17 of book.
2. How to Introduce Dreamweaver to your Web Sites (Manage Sites) Pages 18-19.
3. How Dreamweaver Links your Local and Remote Files
4. Viewing your website files in Dreamweaver Pages 30-31.

Text reference: Chapters 1 & 2
For Additional Reading about the Dreamweaver Environment see Ch. 3
For Additional Reading about Managing Web Site Files see Ch. 4

3
Text Formatting What's new in Dreamweaver CS5

1. Applying Text Formatting in Dreamweaver
2. How text formatting works with the various levels of CSS
3. Formatting discussion

Tutorial about CSS
Text reference: Chapter 5
Text Formatting Exercise
How Exercise Should Look
4

Introduction to Tables
Example of Calendar Table

Text reference: Chapter 8 Table Exercise #1
Table Exercise #2
5

Introduction to PhotoShop

Changing colors in Photoshop
Resizing an Image in Photoshop

Photo Exercise
6

Preparing Photos for your Web Page and placing them in your website
- Image options
- Rollover Images
- Image Placeholders

Text reference: Chapter 6 Website Photos Exercise 1
7

Navigation
How to Create Different Types of Website Links

Text reference: Chapter 7
8

Navigation Part 2

  • Finding Broken Links - Text Reference: P. 452-454
  • Navigation Bar - Text Reference: P. 174 - Demo Images
  • Image Maps - Text Reference : P. 176 - 178 - Demo Image
  • Changing the look of links with CSS: P. 231
  • Borders on Images with Links

Search Test Searching Your Site
9

Navigation Part 3

  • CSS Based Menu with "display:block" feature
  • Spry Framework Menu Bar - Vertical & Horizontal

Text Reference: Chapter 16 - Spry Framework

10

Spry Framework Continued

  • Tabbed Panels
  • Accordian Area
  • Tool Tip

Final Exercises:

Written Exercise Visual Exercise (harder)

Go Forth and Conquer!

Curriculum originally developed by Nora McDougall-Collins

 

 

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