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Macromedia Training Overview
Dreamweaver 4.0 Advanced is a hands-on instruction book 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, we recommend you first take the following course or have equivalent knowledge:
- Dreamweaver 4.0 Introduction
Delivery Method:
Instructor-led, group-paced, classroom-delivery learning model with structured hands-on activities.
Hardware/Software Requirements
You will need
- An Intel Pentium processor or equivalent, 166+ MHz.
- Windows 95, 98, 2000, ME, or NT.
- At least 32 MB of available RAM.
- At least 110 MB of hard disk space to install software, and an additional 5 MB for course data files.
- A color monitor capable of at least 800 x 600 resolution.
- A CD-ROM drive
- Macromedia Dreamweaver 4.0.
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 duration
1 Day
Macromedia Training Course outline
Lesson 1: Rollovers and Navigation Bars
- Topic 1A: Rollovers
- Topic 1B: Adding Image States to a Navigation Bar Using Behaviors
- Topic 1C: Using the Insert Navigation Bar Tool
- Topic 1D: Flash Buttons and Text
Lesson 2: Libraries
- Topic 2A: Creating a Library
- Topic 2B: Modifying Library Items within the Library Panel
Lesson 3: Defining Head Elements and Managing Keyboard Shortcuts
- Topic 3A: Defining Head Elements
- Topic 3B: Editing Meta Tags
- Topic 3C: Orientation to Keyboard Shortcuts
Lesson 4: Style Sheets
- Topic 4A: Defining Style Sheets
- Topic 4B: Applying Style Sheets to Multiple Pages
Lesson 5: Layers
- Topic 5A: Creating Layers
- Topic 5B: Using the Layers palette
- Topic 5C: Layer Style Sheets
- Topic 5D: Layers and Behaviors
- Topic 5E: Inserting Rich Media Objects
Lesson 6: The History Palette
- Topic 6A: The History Palette
- Topic 6B: Recording Steps
- Topic 6C: Saving Steps to the Commands Menu
Lesson 7: Browser Targeting
- Topic 7A: Browser Compatibility
- Topic 7B: Converting Pages to Earlier Versions
- Topic 7C: Browser Checking
Lesson 8: Coding Tools
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