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Web Design & Development with Dreamweaver CS4

This comprehensive course teaches you more than just how to use Adobe Dreamweaver. It teaches you to avoid the common mistakes many new web designers make, and it will give you the confidence to start building quality websites quickly and easily. The use of Cascading Style Sheets in website design has evolved much over the years and is now a prerequisite of any good website, this course will demonstrate the importnance of CSS and the real benefits of uising them in your website design. You will also look at many modern design techniques such as Spry and Flash to ensure your website it eyecatching as well as functional.

Pre-Requisites: A basic understanding of computer terminology and the world wide web.

What You Will Learn: Best Practice Web Design Techniques, competently use Adobe Dreamweaver CS4. Understanding CSS, and much more...

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Topics Description
Planning & Defining A SiteThe importance of planning, Defining site location, Adding folders
Introduction to Adobe DreamweaverThe Dreamweaver Interface, Code & Design Views
A Web PageCreating a new HTML page: Creating page elements, Previewing a page in a browser
Introcuction to Good HTMLValidating Your Code, Organisation and Maintenance Techniques, Working with tables, External and Internal Hyperlinks,
Images & ColourChoosing the Correct Graphics Format, Optimising Graphics for the Web, Rollover buttons, Image maps. Defining Colours and using Colour on the web. Editing Images with Fireworks and Photoshop. Slicing Images
TemplatesCreating a site template, Adding 'editable regions' to templates, Applying templates to site pages, Editing a template
AccessibilityCreating Accessible Sites, HTML and CSS Accessibility Techniques, Browser and Platform Issues, Using Browser Detection Scripts, Publicising Your Web Site, Promoting Your Site: Meta Content, understanding search engines
UsabilityPrinciples of Usability, Simple Usability Techniques, Designing Effective Navigation
Cascading Style SheetsCreating & linking Stylesheets, creating rules with elements, classes and selectors, text and font properties, positioning, Conflicts and rule order.
Adding FlashAdding Buttons, Navigation, Animations & Video Elements to a Page
SpryUsing Dreamweavers Spry widgets: Spry menu bar, Spry tabbed panel, Spry accordion, Spry collapsible panel
Maintaining Your WebsitePublishing & Uploading and Maintaining online websites, using rented servers

 

 

 

 

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