Macromedia Training : Dreamweaver MX Level 2 (Windows)

Dreamweaver MX Level 2 (Windows)

Macromedia Training Overview

Dreamweaver MX Level 2 is a hands-on instruction book that will introduce you to advanced concepts of the Dreamweaver MX Web development application. In this course, you will expand on the knowledge you gained in the Dreamweaver MX Level 1 course. You will work with advanced Web site creation features available in Dreamweaver, including libraries and behaviors. In addition, you will use many of the new features available within the HTML 4 standard including style sheets and layers.

Target Student:

This course is designed for Web designers or prospective Web designers with any level of experience who want to use Dreamweaver's advanced features to create complex Web sites efficiently.

Prerequisites

To ensure your success, we recommend you first take the following course or have equivalent knowledge:

Dreamweaver MX: Level 1

Delivery Method:

Instructor led, group-paced, classroom-delivery learning model with structured hands-on activities

Benefits:

After completing this course, students will be able to create Web sites that include simple rollovers, complex navigation bars, and other page elements that provide visual feedback. Students will learn techniques for creating complex Web sites efficiently.

What's Next:

This is the last course in this series. Students who want to learn to prepare images for use on Web sites may want to take the Photoshop 7.0: Web Production course.

Hardware/Software Requirements

You will need

An Intel Pentium II processor or equivalent 300+ MHz.
Windows 98, 2000, NT, ME or XP.
li>Netscape Navigator or Internet Explorer 4.0 or greater.
At least 96 MB of available RAM (128 MB Recommended).
At least 275 MB available disk space for software installation, and an additional 10 MB for the course data files.
A 256 color monitor capable of 800 x 600 resolution (1024 x 768, millions of colors recommended).
A CD-ROM drive.
Macromedia Dreamweaver MX.

Performance-Based Objectives

Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:

Create dynamic user-interface elements, including simple rollovers and complex navigation bars.
Use 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 and manage layers, as well as combine layers with behaviors to provide additional visual feedback for a viewer navigating a site.
Use the History panel to simplify repetitive tasks both within a single document and with other documents in a site.
Target page content to specific browsers and versions.
Add a form to your web page.

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: Customizing 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 Panel
Topic 5C: Layer Styles
Topic 5D: Layers and Behaviors
Topic 5E: Inserting Rich Media Objects

Lesson 6: The History panel

Topic 6A: The History panel
Topic 6B: Recording Steps
Topic 6C: Saving Steps to the Commands Menu

Lesson 7: Browser Targeting and Code Tools

Topic 7A: Browser Compatibility
Topic 7B: Converting Pages to Earlier Versions
Topic 7C: Browser Checking
Topic 7D: Coding Tools

Lesson 8: Creating Forms

Topic 8A: Setting Up Forms
Topic 8B: Adding Form Elements
Topic 8C: Validating and Testing Forms