Dreamweaver 4.0: Advanced

Course Length - 2 Days (12 Hrs.)

 

Course Description

Overview: Dreamweaver 4.0 Advanced is a hands-on instructor-led course that will introduce you to advanced concepts of the Dreamweaver 4.0 Web development application. In this course, you will expand on the knowledge you gained in the Dreamweaver 4.0 Introduction course. You will work with advanced Web site creation features available in Dreamweaver, including libraries and behaviors. In addition, you will utilize many of the new features available within the HTML 4 standard including style sheets and layers.

 

Prerequisites: To ensure your success, you must have completed the Software Training course, Dreamweaver 4.0 Introduction, or have extensive equivalent knowledge.

 

Performance-Based Objectives

Lesson objectives help students become comfortable with the course, and also provide a means to evaluate learning. Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:

·        Create dynamic user-interface elements, including simple rollovers and complex navigation bars.

·        Work with libraries to manage repeating site elements.

·        Define keyword, description, and other meta tags in order to make your site visible to automatic search engine spiders.

·        Create CSS styles to streamline text formatting within a page, and create external style sheets to allow formatting information to be used throughout a site.

·        Create layers using a number of techniques, and manage the size, position, stacking order, and visibility of layers.

·        Combine layers with behaviors to provide additional visual feedback for a viewer navigating a site.

·        Work with the History palette to simplify repetitive tasks both within a single document and with other documents in a site.

·        Target page content to specific browsers and versions.

·        Learn about several different features included with Dreamweaver 4.0 to assist you in working with code.

 

Course Content

Lesson 1: Rollovers and Navigation Bars

            Topic 1A: Rollovers

                        Task 1A-1: Defining a Site

                        Task 1A-2: Creating Simple Rollovers

            Topic 1B: Adding Image States to a Navigation Bar Using Behaviors

                        Task 1B-1: Building a Navigation Bar using Tables

                        Task 1B-2: Creating the Initial Rollovers

                        Task 1B-3: Adding a Click State to a Navigation Bar

                        Task 1B-4: Testing Rollovers in a Browser

            Topic 1C: Using the Insert Navigation Bar Tool

            Topic 1D: Flash Buttons and Text

                        Task 1D-1: Adding Flash Buttons and Text to a page.

 

Lesson 2: Libraries

            Topic 2A: Creating a Library

                        Task 2A-1: Adding a Library Item

                        Task 2A-2: Placing a Library Item

            Topic 2B: Modifying Library Items within the Library Panel

                        Task 2B-1: Modifying a Library Item

 

Lesson 3: Defining Head Elements and Managing Keyboard Shortcuts

            Topic 3A: Defining Head Elements

                        Task 3A-1: Examining Meta Tags

                        Task 3A-2: Defining a Keyword Tag

                        Task 3A-3: Defining a Description Tag

            Topic 3B: Editing Meta Tags

                        Task 3B-1: Editing the Description Meta Tag

            Topic 3C: Orientation to Keyboard Shortcuts

                        Task 3C-1: Using the Keyboard Shortcut Editor

 

Lesson 4: Style Sheets

            Topic 4A: Defining Style Sheets

                        Task 4A-1: Altering an Existing HTML Tag

                        Task 4A-2: Creating Classes

                        Task 4A-3: Applying Styles to Format Text

                        Task 4A-4: Using the CSS Selector

            Topic 4B: Applying Style Sheets to Multiple Pages

                        Task 4B-1: Exporting Style Sheets

                        Task 4B-2: Linking Style Sheets

                        Task 4B-3: Applying Linked Styles to Text

                        Task 4B-4: Redefining Style Sheets

 

Lesson 5: Layers

            Topic 5A: Creating Layers

                        Task 5A-1: Inserting a Layer

                        Task 5A-2: Creating a Layer with the Draw Layer Button

            Topic 5B: Using the Layers palette

                        Task 5B-1: Naming Layers

                        Task 5B-2: Setting Layer Visibility

                        Task 5B-3: Setting the Stacking Order

            Topic 5C: Layer Style Sheets

                        Task 5C-1: Defining a Layer with Style Sheets

            Topic 5D: Layers and Behaviors

                        Task 5D-1: Creating a Pop-Up Message

                        Task 5D-2: Controlling Layer Visibility Using Behaviors

            Topic 5E: Inserting Rich Media Objects

                        Task 5E-1: Inserting a Flash Movie into a Layer

 

Lesson 6: The History Palette

            Topic 6A: The History Palette

                        Task 6A-1: Using the History Palette

            Topic 6B: Recording Steps

                        Task 6B-1: Recording Steps for Easy Reuse

            Topic 6C: Saving Steps to the Commands Menu

                        Task 6C-1: Saving Steps as Sharable Commands

 

Lesson 7: Browser Targeting

            Topic 7A: Browser Compatibility

                        Task 7A-1: Testing Browser Compatibility

            Topic 7B: Converting Pages to Earlier Versions

                        Task 7B-1: Converting Pages from Version 4 to 3

            Topic 7C: Browser Checking

                        Task 7C-1: Using a Behavior to Check Viewer's Browser

 

Lesson 8: Coding Tools

            Topic 8A: Coding Tools