Unlock the power of web design with our transformative Dreamweaver CS4 course--where creativity meets technology. Imagine stepping into a world where you can create stunning, professional websites with just a click of a mouse, whether you're a complete beginner or have dabbled in the past. This course is your guide, turning what once seemed complex into a series of exciting, achievable milestones. You'll emerge not just as someone who can understand HTML, CSS, and the intricate web of design elements, but as a confident creator of digital experiences that captivate and communicate.
What makes this course exceptional is its ability to streamline your learning journey, offering a dynamic blend of practical skills and artistic freedom. You'll craft sites that aren't just visually striking but also functionally efficient, armed with techniques that make design feel natural and intuitive. Our course offers more than just instruction; it offers a new way of thinking about design--a blueprint for translating your vision into captivating web experiences. Seize this opportunity to enhance your career and creativity--enroll now and watch your ideas come to life.
Lesson 1. Mastering Dreamweaver CS4: Unleashing Your Web Design Potential
Navigating Dreamweaver CS4's interface is made simple with tools like the Menu Bar and Document Toolbar, which offer efficient access to essential design functionalities. By understanding these elements, users can optimize their workspace and significantly enhance their productivity in creating dynamic websites.
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Lesson 1: Introduction to Dreamweaver CS4+
Adobe Dreamweaver CS4 is a web design program that gives even the most amateur web designer the ability to create stunning web pages fairly quickly and easily.
An Introduction+
An Introduction
Lesson 2. Dreamweaver Site Setup Simplified
Organize Dreamweaver projects efficiently by setting up local and root folders for file management, ensuring a structured workflow. This setup simplifies the addition and maintenance of website assets, such as images and text, using HTML and eventually CSS.
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Lesson 2: Creating Your First Website+
It goes without saying that youre going to use Dreamweaver to create websites. However, creating websites using Dreamweaver takes a little preparation.
Lesson 2 Assignment+
Lesson 2 Assignment
Lesson 3. Crafting Your First Website: The Dreamweaver Cafe Project
Learn to format a web page using tables in Dreamweaver, enhancing your ability to organize and position content precisely without mastering complex CSS. By following this lesson, you'll design a fictional restaurant website, Dreamweaver Caf, by setting tables for text and images, eventually customizing colors and properties.
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Lesson 3: Designing with Tables+
Now that you know the basics of adding and formatting texts, images, and links, its time to learn how to format a web page.
Lesson 3 Assignment+
Lesson 3 Assignment
Lesson 4. Building Websites: Navigating Dreamweaver Templates
Starting with the creation of a site root in Dreamweaver, users can explore and customize preloaded templates to suit specific needs. Full creative control is achieved by editing fonts, backgrounds, and layout through CSS and HTML insights gained in this lesson.
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Lesson 4: Creating a Site Using a Template+
Dreamweaver offers you several templates that you can use as a basis for creating your website. In this lesson, youre going to learn to create your own site using a Dreamweaver template.
Lesson 4 Assignment+
Lesson 4 Assignment
Lesson 5. The Art and Science of Web Forms
Dreamweaver provides an accessible way to add forms to web pages by focusing on practical implementation and understanding of form elements such as checkboxes and text areas. Mastering these tools, including validation and pattern enforcement, allows users to create robust forms tailored to specific data collection needs.
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Lesson 5: Creating Online Forms+
In this lesson, youre going to learn how to create these forms in Dreamweaver so that you can easily add them to any website that you build.
Lesson 5 Assignment+
Lesson 5 Assignment
Lesson 6. A Dive into Library Editing and Asset Management
Dreamweaver's library feature centralizes key page elements, allowing for consistent updates with minimal effort across a website. Combined with robust search and editing tools, users can seamlessly manage and update content to maintain a cohesive web presence.
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Lesson 6: Libraries, Assets, and More Time Saving Tools+
A library is a Dreamweaver file that contains all the assets (files, images, etc) that you put in your document and on your web page. These assets are called library items.
Lesson 6 Assignment+
Lesson 6 Assignment
Lesson 7. Frameset Creation Simplified
Frames create isolated sections of a browser window for displaying distinct HTML documents, offering simplicity in creating persistent navigation but complicating efforts in optimizing for search engines and ease of bookmarking. This session covers designing framesets, selecting frame arrangements, and weighing their trade-offs.
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Lesson 7: Creating a Website with Frames+
A frame is a region located in a browser window that displays an HTML document thats independent of the rest of the browser window.
Lesson 7 Assignment+
Lesson 7 Assignment
Lesson 8. Creating Dynamic Rollovers and Interactive Image Maps
Creating an image map involves dividing an image into clickable regions called hotspots, each capable of triggering actions like opening new files. The lesson outlines the process of setting up client-side image maps, from inserting images to defining map areas with unique names and linking them for desired interactions.
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Lesson 8: Rollovers and Other Image Tricks+
A rollover is an image that changes in appearance when your mouse moves over it. You always need at least two images: a primary image for the normal state and a secondary image for the changed.
Lesson 8 Assignment+
Lesson 8 Assignment
Lesson 9. CSS Essentials: Unleashing the Power of Style Sheets
In this lesson, learn how CSS simplifies web design by letting you define fonts, colors, and layouts for entire documents or specific elements. Practice using Dreamweaver to create internal and external stylesheets, explore class and ID styles, and discover how to attach and edit existing styles.
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Lesson 9: Designing with Cascading Style Sheets+
CSS, or a Cascading Style Sheet, allows you to apply styles to your documents. A Cascading Style Sheet is basically a direction for your document.
Lesson 9 Assignment+
Lesson 9 Assignment
Lesson 10. Layers Redefined: Exploring AP Div Elements in Web Design
AP Div elements in Dreamweaver offer absolute positioning independent of table cells, allowing flexibility in design by mimicking transparent layers familiar from graphic editing software. These elements can be freely moved, resized, and their stacking order manipulated for sophisticated layout control.
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Lesson 10: Creating Precise Designs Using AP Elements+
The AP stands for absolutely positioned. This means that, unlike table cells, you can position AP elements anywhere.
Lesson 10 Assignment+
Lesson 10 Assignment
Lesson 11. Creating Interactive Web Experiences with Ease
Dreamweaver behaviors transform static web pages into interactive experiences, allowing users to engage through actions like jump menus and pop-up windows. This lesson walks you through using the Behaviors panel to add, modify, and master web interactivity.
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Lesson 11: Behaviors+
In this lesson, were going to learn how to use behaviors to create interactivity on your web pages.
Lesson 11 Assignment+
Lesson 11 Assignment
Lesson 12. Dreamweaver Multimedia: A Guide to Adding Audio, Video, and Flash
FLV files, unlike static SWFs, come with built-in playback controls known as skins, adding familiarity and ease for users accessing media through Dreamweaver web pages. Designers have options between progressive download and streaming video to optimize delivery based on user needs.
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Lesson 12: Adding Audio, Video & Flash to a Page+
Weve come a long way from the simple, text-based web pages of the past. Back then, a web page might be laid out like the front page of a newspaper, with columns of text and basic images.
Lesson 12 Assignment+
Lesson 12 Assignment
Lesson 13. HTML Insights for Creative Web Design
Dreamweaver allows for web design without needing HTML expertise, yet understanding HTML tags can enhance design complexity and functionality. Learning basic HTML facilitates customizations in Dreamweaver, from formatting text to integrating images and links.
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Lesson 13: Working in the Code+
In this lesson, we're going to teach you some basic HTML and then some things that you can do using your new skills to make your pages shine.
Lesson 13 Assignment+
Lesson 13 Assignment
Lesson 14. Dreamweaver: Seamlessly Connect and Transfer Files
Beginning with FTP basics, Lesson 3 demystifies remote file management in Dreamweaver, explaining how to configure settings, troubleshoot connections, and sync files seamlessly. It also introduces collaborative tools like Check In/Check Out and design notes to optimize team contributions.
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Lesson 14: Publishing & Managing Your Website+
In this lesson, we are going to expand on that knowledge, and show you how to configure FTP in Dreamweaver and create a remote folder on your sever.
Lesson 14 Assignment+
Lesson 14 Assignment
The Final Assignment+
The Final Assignment
In This Course
9 Hours average completion time
0.9 CEUs
14 Lessons
29 Exams & Assignments
16 Reference Files
Mobile Friendly
Last Updated July 2024
Description
Whether this is your first time using Dreamweaver or you've used it in the past, this course will walk you through the program step-by-step and teach you how to use its many features and options to create professional web pages with little more than a click of the mouse.
You'll learn how to:
Design basic HTML websites, even if you don't know HTML
Design with tables
Build websites using frames
Learn about -- and even understand -- CSS
Learn basic HTML. You won't believe how easy it is!
And much, much more.
Like most Adobe programs, Dreamweaver can seem more complicated than it really is because of all the additional options and features that it offers. For that reason, if you're new to Dreamweaver, trying to figure out how to accomplish even the simplest of tasks can seem overwhelming and impossible. But take heart, it's not. With just a very little bit of time and study, anyone can master Dreamweaver and be on their way to designing professional web pages quickly and easily. This course was designed to teach the amateur how to effectively use the program and take advanced users from building basic web pages to stunning masterpieces.
Skills You'll Develop
Streamline form creation and data validation
Enhance CSS layout and styling proficiency
Master web design fundamentals
Implement interactive web elements effortlessly
Develop efficient website management skills
Utilize powerful file transfer techniques
Optimize multimedia web integrations
Master HTML for custom site enhancements
Create dynamic
visually appealing web pages
Skills You'll Develop
Streamline form creation and data validation
Enhance CSS layout and styling proficiency
Master web design fundamentals
Implement interactive web elements effortlessly
Develop efficient website management skills
Utilize powerful file transfer techniques
Optimize multimedia web integrations
Master HTML for custom site enhancements
Create dynamic
visually appealing web pages
More About This Course
Library Editing and Asset Management: Efficiently maintain website consistency.
Building Websites: Customize templates for unique designs.
Mastering Dreamweaver CS4: Elevate web design skills effortlessly.
Crafting Your First Website: Create professional sites instantly.
Creating Dynamic Rollovers: Transform images into interactive elements.
Dreamweaver Site Setup Simplified: Streamline your project management.
Seamlessly Connect and Transfer Files: Optimize file management with FTP.
Interactive Web Experiences: Add user engagement with ease.
CSS Essentials: Streamline design with powerful style sheets.
Dreamweaver Multimedia: Integrate audio and video seamlessly.
HTML Insights for Creative Web Design: Customize webpages with HTML basics.
The Art and Science of Web Forms: Enhance web page interactivity.
Frameset Creation Simplified: Design with isolated sections easily.
What You'll Achieve
Identify and describe the primary components of the Dreamweaver CS4 interface, including the Menu Bar, Panels, Properties Inspector, and Document Window.
Demonstrate the ability to create, open, and manage HTML documents within Dreamweaver CS4, utilizing features such as the Document Toolbar and the Status Bar.
Define a root folder in Dreamweaver to store and manage website files, ensuring proper functionality and organization.
Demonstrate the ability to insert text, images, and create hyperlinks in a Dreamweaver web document, following standard HTML practices.
Demonstrate the creation and formatting of tables in Dreamweaver by constructing the layout for a fictional restaurant website.
Apply properties to tables using Expanded Tables mode to maintain precise design control and alignment within a Dreamweaver project.
Define and demonstrate proficiency in creating a website using a Dreamweaver template by customizing elements such as page titles, text, and images.
Identify and differentiate between editable and uneditable regions in templates, and effectively designate these regions for website customization.
Define the components of an online form and their functionalities using Dreamweaver by listing at least five different elements.
Demonstrate the ability to create a basic HTML form in Dreamweaver by successfully integrating text fields, checkboxes, and a submit button into a webpage.
Define the process of creating a library item and inserting it into a Dreamweaver document using the Assets panel.
Demonstrate the steps to edit and update a library item, ensuring changes reflect across all associated documents in Dreamweaver.
Design a website with frames by creating and configuring framesets, demonstrating the use of predefined and custom layouts in Dreamweaver.
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9 Hours average completion time
0.9 CEUs
14 Lessons
29 Exams & Assignments
16 Reference Files
Mobile Friendly
Last Updated July 2024
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