Lynda Dreamweaver CS5 Essential Training

Course name: Dreamweaver CS5 Essential Training
Author: James Williamson
Duration: 15h 22m
Released on: 4/30/2010
Exercise files: Yes

In Dreamweaver CS5 Essential Training, Adobe Certified Instructor James Williamson explores the tools and techniques of Dreamweaver CS5, Adobe's web design and development software. This course covers both the ins and outs of Dreamweaver, as well as recommended best practices for crafting new web sites and files, the fundamentals of HTML and CSS, and how to ensure clean and accessible code. The course also includes how to use tools in Dreamweaver to create and style web pages, manage multiple sites, and add user interactivity with widgets and scripting. Exercise files are included with the course.
Topics include:

Defining and structuring a new site
Creating new web documents from scratch or from templates
Adding and formatting text
Understanding style sheet basics
Placing and styling images
Creating links to internal pages and external web sites
Controlling page layout with CSS
Building and styling forms
Reusing web content with templates
Adding interactivity
Working with Flash and video

Contents:
Introduction
- Welcome
- Using the exercise files

1. Getting Started
- What is Dreamweaver?
- Learning web design
- Current web standards

2. The Dreamweaver Interface
- The Welcome screen
- Windows and Mac interface differences
- The Application toolbar
- The Document toolbar
- Arranging panels
- Managing workspaces
- The Properties Inspector
- The Insert panel

3. Site Control
- Basic site structure
- File naming conventions
- Defining a new site
- Managing sites
- Managing files and folders
- Working with browsers

4. Creating New Documents
- Creating new documents
- New document preferences
- Setting accessibility preferences
- Working with starter pages
- Managing starter pages

5. Adding Text and Structure
- Basic tag structure
- Adding structure to text
- Creating lists
- Getting text into Dreamweaver
- Importing Word documents

6. CSS Foundations
- Understanding style sheets
- The anatomy of a CSS rule
- Setting CSS preferences
- The CSS Styles panel
- Controlling CSS through the Properties Inspector
- Using the Code Navigator
- Using CSS Enable
- Understanding element selectors
- Understanding class selectors
- Understanding ID selectors
- Understanding descendant selectors
- Attaching external style sheets

7. Controlling Typography
- Working with units of measurement
- Declaring font families
- Controlling font sizing
- Controlling weight and style
- Controlling line height
- Controlling vertical spacing with margins
- Controlling spacing with padding
- Aligning text
- Transforming text
- Writing global styles
- Writing targeted styles

8. Working with Images
- Understanding image types
- Managing assets in Dreamweaver
- Setting image accessibility preferences
- Setting external image editing preferences
- Placing images on the page
- Photoshop integration
- Modifying Smart Objects
- Alternate Photoshop workflows
- Modifying image properties
- Styling images with CSS
- Using background graphics
- Positioning background graphics

9. Creating Links
- Link basics
- Setting site linking preferences
- Creating links in Dreamweaver
- Absolute links
- Using named anchors
- Linking to named anchors in external files
- Creating an email link
- Creating CSS-based rollovers

10. Controlling Layout with CSS
- CSS structuring basics
- The Box Model
- Understanding floats
- Clearing and containing floats
- Using relative positioning
- Using absolute positioning
- Creating structure with div tags
- Styling basic structure
- Creating a two-column layout
- Using Live View and CSS Inspect
- Using Browser Lab

11. Working with Tables
- Reviewing table structure
- Importing tabular data
- Creating accessible tables
- Using thead and tbody tags
- Basic table styling
- Styling table headers
- Styling column groups
- Creating custom table borders
- Styling table captions

12. Working with Forms
- How forms work
- Reviewing form design
- Creating accessible forms
- Setting form properties
- The fieldset and legend tags
- Inserting text fields
- Inserting list menu items
- Inserting checkboxes
- Inserting radio button groups
- Inserting text areas
- Inserting submit buttons
- Basic form styling
- Form element styling
- Styling form layout
- Adding form interactivity
- Using Spry validation widgets

13. Building Templates
- Planning for templates
- Creating a new template
- Using editable attributes
- Creating optional regions
- Creating new pages from a template
- Applying templates to existing pages
- Working with nested templates
- Working with repeating regions
- Modifying templates

14. Adding User Interactivity
- Behaviors overview
- Hiding and showing elements
- Spry overview
- Using Spry widgets
- Adding Spry effects
- Using the Widget Browser

15. Working with Flash and Video
- Inserting Flash files
- Setting properties for Flash
- Dreamweaver and Flash integration
- Encoding Flash video
- Adding Flash video

16. Managing Sites
- Running site-wide reports
- Checking for broken links
- Checking for browser compatibility
- Adding remote servers
- Uploading files
- Managing remote sites

Conclusion
- Goodbye