Dreamweaver Courseware

1: Getting Started with Dreamweaver
The Internet and 'WEBS'
Jargon and Terminology
Internet Access and HTML
The Dreamweaver Environment
Editing an Existing Page
Viewing HTML and Download Time

2: Design, Create and Edit Web Pages
Creating a Basic Web Page
Creating and Formatting Text
Saving and Titling Web Pages
Working with Images
Defining a Web Site
Working with the Site Window
Working with Templates
Importing Text
HTML Text
Character Formatting
Paragraph Formatting
HTML Styles

3: Expanding the Web and linking it Together
Working with Links
Links within a Site
Anchors
Working with External Links
Working with Images
Importing Images
Resizing Images
Using Images as Links
Working with Tables
Creating Tables
Changing Table Layout
Formatting Text in Tables
Table Attributes
Using Tables for Layout

4: Finalising the Web
Building a Site with Frames
Creating a Frameset
Web Pages in Framesets
Frame Link Destinations
Uploading a Web Site
Checking the Site
Uploading the Site




Appendix A: New Features in MX
Workspace
New  and Improved features

1: Using Libraries in Dreamweaver
Libraries?
Creating a Library
Creating Library Items
Modifying Library Items
Detaching or Deleting a Library Item
Exercise; Create a Navigation Bar Library Item
Exercise; Edit the SiteNavigation Library Item
Exercise; Apply the Library Item
Exercise; Create a Template for Content Pages

2: Using Style Sheets
Style Sheets; Introduction
Cascading Style Sheets
Grouping properties
Cascading characteristics
How styles are applied
Applying Style Sheets to Multiple Pages
Eliminating underlines from links
Exercise; Create CSS Styles for your Content Page

3: Rollovers and Navigation Bars
Introduction to Rollovers
Swapping Images
Navigation Bars
Exercise; Create a Graphic Site-Wide Navigation Bar

4: Head Elements and META Tags
Defining Head Elements
The Page Properties Dialog Box
Choosing a Page palette
Understanding meta and other head tags
The Tags
Inserting tags with the Meta object

5. Layers
Introduction to Layers
Positioning Measurement (Positioning of Layers)
Creating Layers
Inserting a layer object
Modifying a Layer
Moving a layer
Using the Layers palette
Layers and Behaviors
Using Show-Hide Layers
Creating a Loading Layer

6. WWW Positioning and Web Issues
Timelines
Layer Movement
Timelines; A few ground rules
Creating Frame-Based Animations
Adding Layers to the Timelines Inspector
Modifying a Timeline
Practical; Creating Dynamic Content

7. Browser Targeting
The Targeting Issue
Testing Your Page with a Targeted Browser
The Dreamweaver Target Browser Check
Testing browser compatibility for an entire site
Converting Pages in Dreamweaver
Making 3.0-compatible pages
Running the conversion
Evolving 3.0 pages to 4.0 standards
Ensuring Browser Compatibility
Dreamweaver Technique: Browser Checking

8. Working with Timelines
Introduction to Meta Tags
Effective Meta Tag Options and Example
Publishing or indexing with the Search Engines
Publishing (indexing) on your own
Basic Tips on Positioning

1: Getting started with Database Connectivity
Introduction
Terms related to Database Connectivity
Database connectivity Dreamweaver MX
Creating a DSN and mapping the Database

2: Installing the Web Server, defining Site and Database Connection
Web site with a Database
Tutorial ; Installing the Web Server
Defining the site and Connection
Creating the Database  connection
Summary

3: Retrieving and Inserting into the Database
Tutorial 2; Creating a master page
Creating a Recordset.
Repeated Region
Record Navigation
Summary
Tutorial 3; Inserting into a table
Finalize the web site and check it with the browser
Summary