dreamweaver, html & css tuition
Adobe Dreamweaver is the industry standard software for website assembly and maintenance.
Dreamweaver specific tuition includes:
- Creation of new sites, including good folder structure practice
- Connecting to your webserver
- Understanding the differences between different server models (Windows / Linux)
- Understanding the difference between absolute and relative addressing
- Creation of new HTML files (pages)
- Understanding navigation and linking methods and parameters
- Setting up HTML page properties
- Creation of Dreamweaver Templates from HTML files
- Setting up editable regions in Templates - or using PHP Includes
- Creating Nested Templates
- Creating Dreamweaver Library Items - or using PHP Includes
- Creating and managing CSS styles (MX2004 onwards to CS4)
- Creating external CSS files
- Creating and editing tables for tabular data - cleaning up imported Microsoft Word Tables & creating tables from CSV files
- Using ordered and unordered lists
- Optimising & editing graphics - round robin to Fireworks & reloading in html pages
- Making global changes using Search and Find
- Inserting and designing forms
- Connecting forms to Formmail scripts (PHP & Perl)
- Inserting Flash movies
- Running browser and accessibility checks
- Installing Javascript Behaviours
- Using Javacript Behaviours
- Understanding Javascript handlers
- Setting up sites for Adobe Contribute
- Using Layers - the Z plane
HTML & CSS tuition includes:
- HTML - essential tags and page structure
- CSS in practice - CSS structure and styling elements & content
- Using PHP Includes to create websites that are easier to maintain
- Setting up Forms
- Connecting Forms to Formmail scripts (PHP & Perl)
- Applying Search Engine Optimisation Techniques
- Creating Accessible websites
The Dreamweaver myth - a quick tip!
Many people purchase Dreamweaver on it's own with the view that they will be able to design a website. It's not quite that simple! I describe Dreamweaver not as a web design tool, but a web-assembly tool. The graphics and layout structure of websites are usually designed in other programs such as Fireworks, Photoshop, Illustrator, Freehand etc. Dreamweaver is then used to assemble images, sound, video, text, scripts, forms and other content into a format for publishing on the internet.
Dreamweaver is the industry standard software for website assembly and maintenance. If you are going to make the investment of time and money in your web skills there is no better software, especially if you hope to work commercially, however it is not the only software you will need to create great sites.
Training rates are £160.00 (no VAT applicable) per session - each session is 4 HOURS.
Please contact me to discuss your requirements.
Please note: I am not officially accredited by Adobe to provide Adobe Dreamweaver training. The skills I teach are those any experienced user of the software should be able to share. I have a current full disclosure CRB certificate.
