Course Length:

1 Day

Course Description:

This course will introduce you to advanced concepts of Dreamweaver MX. Students will work with advanced Web site creation features including libraries and behaviors, as well as many of the new features available within the HTML 4 standard including style sheets and layers. By the end of the course, students will be able to create Web sites that include simple rollovers, complex navigation bars, and page elements that provide visual feedback.

Who Should Attend:

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 will benefit from this course.

Benefits of Attendance:

Upon 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.
• Create external style sheets to allow formatting within a page.
• 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 viewers.
• 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.

Prerequisites:

Students should have taken Dreamweaver MX: Level 1.

Course Outline:

• Chapter 1: Rollovers And Navigation Bars
  1. Rollovers
  2. Adding Image States to a Navigation Bar using Behaviors
  3. Using the Insert Navigation Bar Tool
  4. Flash Buttons and Text
• Chapter 2: Libraries
  1. Creating a Library
  2. Modifying Library Items within the Library Panel
• Chapter 3: Defining Head Elements And Managing Keyboard Shortcuts
  1. Defining Head Elements
  2. Editing Meta Tags
  3. Customizing Keyboard Shortcuts
• Chapter 4: Style Sheets
  1. Defining Style Sheets
  2. Applying Style Sheets to Multiple Pages
• Chapter 5: Layers
  1. Creating Layers
  2. Using the Layers Panel
  3. Layer Styles
  4. Layers and Behaviors
  5. Inserting Rich Media Objects
• Chapter 6: The History Panel
  1. The History panel
  2. Recording Steps
  3. Saving Steps to the Commands Menu
• Chapter 7: Browser Targeting And Code Tools
  1. Browser Compatibility
  2. Converting Pages to Earlier Versions
  3. Browser Checking
  4. Coding Tools
• Chapter 8: Creating Forms
  1. Setting Up Forms
  2. Adding Form Elements
  3. Validating and Testing Forms