Web Design Using Dreamweaver  

This course is designed for people who want to create/manage a personal or professional website with Dreamweaver. You will learn about the important features of creating and maintaining Web pages using Dreamweaver, the Macromedia software solution for Website Design. Additionally, you will learn how to incorporate Style Sheets into your website, creating straightforward Animation, as well as Template Layout and Design, creating forms, and tables. At the end of the course you should be competent in core Web Design skills. This interactive course is packed with hands-on exercises, giving you the opportunity to work on your own web site. You will be given a working document for future reference.



Course Content Available Dates
  • Unit 1
  • Introduction to Dreamweaver
  • Colour Differences
  • How to get help
  • The Workspace Size, Tag Selector and Time
  • Object and Properties
  • Shortcuts and Properties
  • Integrating HTML
  • Creating a Local Site
  • Creating a Remote Site
  • Working with Texts


  • Unit 2
  • Embedding Styles
  • Adding Page Titles
  • Changing Colour
  • Background Colours and Images
  • Line/Paragraph Breaks
  • Font sets
  • Inserting and Tracing Images
  • Advanced Gracing Options
  • Adding Background Images
  • Alignment Controls


  • Unit 3
  • Links and Anchors
  • Changing Links Colours
  • Creating Anchors
  • Anchors to New Pages
  • Links to Email Addresses
  • External Links
  • Same Page Links
  • Script Links
  • Viewing Site Maps
  • Creating a Template
  • Applying Templates
  • Setting Colour Schemes
  • Image Maps


  • Unit 4
  • Creating Tables
  • Converting Texts to Tables
  • Inserting Images in Tables
  • Resizing Table Elements
  • Merging and Aligning Tables
  • Creating Page Layouts with Tables
  • Colorizing Table Elements & Borders
  • Adding backgrounds, headings, captions, rows and columns
  • Cell Padding and Cell Spacing
  • Splitting Tables


  • Unit 5
  • Advanced Table Layouts
  • Nested Tables
  • Sorting Tables
  • Table Formats
  • Text Wrapping
  • Converting Tables to Layers


  • Unit 6
  • Introduction to Layers
  • Adding Layers
  • Labelling and Selecting
  • Adding Content
  • Moving and Resizing Layers
  • Nested Layers
  • Converting Layers to Tables
  • Nescape Layers and Inline Layers


  • Unit 7
  • Working with Forms
  • Starting a Form
  • Scrolling Text Box
  • Checkboxes
  • Radio Buttons
  • Submitting/Resetting a Form
  • Creating a Text area


  • Unit 8
  • CGI Resources
  • Frames & Frame Properties
  • Frame Borders/Targeting Frames
  • Style Sheets
  • Custom Styles/Applying Styles
  • External Style Sheets
  • Using CSS Selectors
  • Styling the background


  • Unit 9
  • Pop-up Messages
  • Multiple/Complex behaviours
  • Behaviours with Frames
  • Customising behaviours
  • Plug-in Detection
  • Combining behaviours
  • Visibility & Clipping
  • Third Party Actions
  • Creating and Updating Library Items
  • Making Items Editable


  • Unit 10
  • SSI
  • XML/Exporting XML
  • Dynamic HTML
  • Timelines Inspector
  • Creating simple animation
  • Adding Key frames
  • Connecting to a Web Server
  • Uploading your website
  • Check In & Out
  • HTML inspector
  • Browser Compatibility


  • Unit 11
  • Summary
  • Review of Final Project

    Beginner-Intermediate:

  • September 12th-13th 2006
  • October 10th-11th 2006
  • November 14th-15th 2006
  • December 12th-13th 2006 
  • January 9th-10th 2007
  • February 13th-14th 2007
  • March 13th-14th 2007
  • April 10th-11th 2007
  • May 8th-9th 2007
  • June 12th-13th 2007
  • July 10th-11th 2007

 

 Advanced:
 

  • September 14th-15th 2006
  • October 12th-13th 2006
  • November 16th-17th 2006
  • December 14th-15th 2006
  • January 11th-12th 2007
  • February 15th-16th 2007
  • March 15th-16th 2007
  • April 12th-13th  2007 
  • May 10th-11th 2007
  • June 14th-15th 2007
  • July 12th-13th 2007



  • For Bookings and Enquiries Tel:0115 978 4513
  • enquiries@accordia.org.uk

    Duration: 1 Day per level

Price/Number of Delegates Per Day
Level 1 2 3 4-6
Beginner – Intermediate £445 £235 £215 £185
Intermediate – Advanced £465 £255 £225 £195