Dreamweaver Hands-On Intensive - Class

Adobe Dreamweaver is an industry standard for WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) HTML editors. In this hands-on class we will cover the basic components of this program in order to get you going with building your own website.

The workshop will cover:
- What is Dreamweaver and WYSIWYG editing
- Introduction to the Dreamweaver interface
- Managing site definitions and the Files panel
- Page properties and titles
- HTML tags and basic formatting
- Working with HTML Tables
- Colors in HTML
- Image formats for the web
- Working with background images
- Inserting and properties of images
- Incorporating Flash and Flash Video content in a site
- Creating links to other pages
- Named anchor and email links
- Overview of Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)
- Tag, class, ID, and compound CSS styles
- Internal, external, and printer-friendly style sheets
- Creating a simple CSS-based layout
- Working with Dreamweaver's included CSS-based layouts
- Introducion to javascript elements
- Inserting javascript rollover images
- Using Dreamweaver's Ajax/Spry popUp menu
- Working with reusable Library items
- Creating a Dreamweaver Template to manage a site
- Working with pages using Templates
- Find and Replace, Clean up XHTML, and Source Formatting commands
- Remote site definition and publishing to a web server

Presented in Adobe CS5, but most of what is taught will apply to earlier versions of the program.

For complete details, PLEASE REGISTER at the BDA website. Boulder Digital Arts offers affordable training in digital media from professionals working in the field.