Adobe Dreamweaver CS3

Adobe Dreamweaver CS3

Course Outline | Adobe Dreamweaver CS3 — Website Development

Description

This course provides web designers with the knowledge and hands-on practice they need to build and manage professional web sites using Dreamweaver 8.

Audience

This course is for people new to web design and development and want to use Dreamweaver 8 to build intuitive, attractive and accessible web sites.

Introducing the Course

  • Understanding the course
  • Reviewing the course objectives and prerequisites
  • Reviewing the course format
  • Outlining the course content
  • Understanding static page architecture

Getting Started

  • Introducing Dreamweaver 8
  • Learning the interface
  • Defining a local site
  • Creating a website

Adding Content to a Site

  • Adding content
  • Controlling document structure
  • Making lists
  • Adding horizontal rules
  • Adding special characters

Formatting with Cascading Style Sheets

  • Formatting text
  • Introducing cascading style sheets
  • Creating styles
  • Exporting CSS rule definitions
  • Creating class styles
  • Attaching external style sheets
  • Creating advanced styles
  • Creating a new external style sheet
  • Displaying styles
  • Understanding cascading order and inheritance of styles
  • Creating internal styles with the Property inspector

Working with Graphics

  • Using graphics on web pages
  • Placing graphics on the page
  • Modifying image properties
  • Editing images
  • Doing roundtrip editing with Fireworks
  • Customizing the Insert bar
  • Adding Flash content
  • Adding Flash Video

Navigating Your Site

  • Understanding site navigation
  • Linking to files in your site
  • Linking to sites
  • Linking to named anchors
  • Adding e-mail links
  • Linking from images
  • Creating a jump menu

Designing Page Layouts with CSS

  • Understanding page layout
  • Using layers for layout
  • Adding CSS to layers
  • Using absolute and relative positioning
  • Designing with DIVs
  • Designing navigation links with CSS
  • Importing tabular data
  • Using table layout view

Using Libraries and Templates

  • Using site library items
  • Creating site templates
  • Defining editable regions
  • Using templates
  • Applying a template to an existing page
  • Modifying templates

Creating Forms

  • Understanding forms
  • Processing a form
  • Setting focus in a form
  • Validating a form

Testing, Maintenance, and Uploading

  • Testing your site
  • Maintaining your files and folders
  • Connecting to a remote site
  • Synchronizing files

Course Outline | Adobe Dreamweaver CS3 — ColdFusion Development

Integrating Ajax with Spry

  • Working with XML data
  • Attaching an XML data source to your page
  • Inserting a Spry table
  • Including a Spry Accordian widget
  • Applying a Spry effect

Constructing Forms

  • Inserting a form
  • Inserting a form
  • Working with Spry form widgets
  • Using radio buttons
  • Applying checkboxes
  • Inserting lists
  • Adding form buttons
  • Incorporating fieldsets and legends
  • Styling your form with CSS

Adding Multimedia

  • Inserting a Flash movie
  • Adding a Flash video
  • Creating a Flash slide show

Publishing to the Web

  • Defining a remote site
  • Checking pages for browser compatibility
  • Validating pages
  • Putting files on the Web
  • Getting pages from the Web

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Name
Adobe Dreamweaver CS3, Website Development and Coldfusion
Price
$1,500
Date
11/17/08-11/21/08
Length
5 days
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Adobe Dreamweaver CS3, Website Development and Coldfusion
Price
$1,500
Date
3/23/09-3/27/09
Length
5 days
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Course Details

Website Development

Name
Dreamweaver CS3: Level 1
Price
$995
Date
11/17/08-11/19/08
Length
3 days
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Name
Dreamweaver CS3: Level 1
Price
$995
Date
3/23/09-3/25/09
Length
3 days
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Coldfusion development

Name
Dreamweaver CS3: Level 2
Price
$695
Date
11/20/08-11/21/08
Length
2 days
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Dreamweaver CS3: Level 2
Price
$695
Date
3/26/09-3/27/09
Length
2 days
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What's Included?

Included In The Cost Of The Course: Course Book, Breakfast And Lunch, And Certification Test Voucher!

Instructor

Rich Baim

An Adobe Certified Instructor for Adobe Premiere Pro with over twenty years of video editing experience. Rich has a Master of Science degree in Instructional Media and was one of the beta testers for Premiere Pro 1.5. He currently works in the eLearning department at a technology center and specializes in streaming media for health education. Rich emphasizes real-world problem solving and provides "hands-on" experiences for students.

Margaret A. Gaeddert

Margaret "Margee" Gaeddert, is a certified professional designer and owner of G Art & Design in Oklahoma City. A 30 year career in design as an art director, graphic designer, illustrator, and web designer has awarded her regional, national and international awards. She has worked with Fortune 500 and 1000 corporations such as AOL, Avon, Bristol-Myers Squibb Co, Sony Music, CNBC.com and Gucci. Local corporations include American Fidelity, KOCO Television, Metropolitan Library Association and Sperry Van Ness. She teaches design at the University of Central Oklahoma. Gaeddert enjoys serving on the board of the Oklahoma Watercolor Association, and two design advisory boards supporting education in Oklahoma. She holds a bachelor's of fine arts degree and is an accomplished award winning fine artist in watercolor media, calligraphy and caricature art.

Jason Gaines

Mr. Gaines is a certified professional in both Logic Pro 8 and Soundtrack 2. He is currently in demand as an instructor of both applications. Current projects include independent film work and collaboration on the television series, LA Ink. Jason Gaines is a New York City based trumpeter, composer and arranger. He has performed and recorded with some of the most influential performers in the jazz idiom including Arturo Sandoval, Roy Hargrove, Joshua Redman, Freddie Hubbard, Jackie McLean, Gerald Wilson and others. He holds degrees from Manhattan School of Music, New York University and Teachers College, Columbia University.

Doug Hanley

Doug Hanley is a Mac support veteran of over 16 years and a user group founder. He is the President of MacTEK Consulting & Training, Inc., a computer consulting firm and Apple Authorized Training Center in Las Vegas. Doug is an Apple Certified Trainer and Apple Certified System Administrator. In his free time he is a regular Co-host on the Computer Outlook, a syndicated radio show at www.computeroutlook.com.

Foster Johnson

Foster Johnson is the Owner and Lead Creative for Foster Johnson Studios. He has 10 years of professional creative development and leadership experience in interactive, print and advertising, executing creative direction, art direction and team strategy. An architect of numerous web based commerce and database connectivity solutions, as well as e-commerce, telecoms, entertainment, advertising, publishing, photography and video for broadband. Johnson is an Adobe Certified Instructor (ACI) with expert level application skills in Adobe Creative Suite 3, including: Flash using ActionScript 3.0, Dreamweaver, Photoshop, Illustrator, Premiere Pro, After Effects Pro, InDesign, Acrobat Pro, Captivate 3.0, LiveCycle ES as well as QuarkXPress and web application development using advanced CSS, SQL, AJAX, XML, RSS, Google AdSense and AdWords.

Rick Allen Lippert

Rick Allen Lippert is president of Lippert Media in Oklahoma City with 30 years experience on both sides of the camera. Specializing in industrial production, he has won numerous awards for his writing, producing, and directing for clients such as the Oklahoma Arts Institute, Oklahoma City University, the City of Oklahoma City, the University of Central Oklahoma, the U.S. Coast Guard, the U.S. Department of Transportation and the Federal Aviation Administration.His commercial clients include CompSource Oklahoma and Dane Design. Rick has been using Final Cut Pro since version 1.25. As an adjunct instructor, he teaches video production at Oklahoma City Community College and media writing at the University of Oklahoma.

Kiri Roberts

Kiri Christopher Roberts is the creative director of One Media USA, a media production house located in Albany, NY. Born in Zimbabwe, Kiri migrated to the UK where he received a Masters in Audio Production from the University of Westminster in London. With a diverse international experience he has worked on music production, TV commercials, documentary films, music videos and currently ‘Frozen River’ the movie. Kiri is also a contributing writer for the Edit-Well magazine whose editor is Larry Jordan of LA. Kiri balances his time between his business and as a trainer for Apple Pro Apps. He is an Apple Certified end user and trainer for Motion 3, FCP6, STP2 & Logic 8.

Luisa Winters

Luisa Winters has been in the professional videography industry for 17 years. An awards winning videographer / editor, her tips make editing and compositing more productive, faster, and far more inventive. Luisa is a featured instructor for NAB, Government Video Expo, DV Expo, CES, NAB - NY and PMA. An accomplished videographer, editor, 3D animator and graphics designer, her compositions have been seen on broadcast TV as well as in private video productions. She has created and edited scores of video and web projects for dozens of corporate, government, and educational, commercial and private clients. Luisa has conducted training sessions and master classes for Adobe After Effects, Photoshop, Premiere Pro, Flash and Encore DVD. Luisa is a Johns Hopkins University Graduate and is fluent in both English and Spanish.

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