Adobe Dreamweaver Beginners and Intermediates Course

Adobe Dreamweaver beginners and Intermediates two day course

Design Trainers are offering this two day course for beginners and intermediates in Macromedia Dreamweaver or Adobe Dreamweaver to build on the basics of Dreamweaver as well as how to design and build a small web site. 

The course also includes intermediate Dreamweaver techniques needed to work efficiently and create manageable web site designs using Dreamweaver Templates, CSS, and forms, as well as managing your web site and checking files.

This course is available on a one-to-one basis, or in small groups on-site in Birmingham and Midlands areas and around the UK.

This course is aimed at beginners and intermediates thus it is necerssary that you have good general computer skills. Additionally unless you have some prior exposure to web design or HTML editing, you may be better starting with a just one day Dreamweaver beginners course or separating the days by a few weeks.

» See also the Designer Trainers Adobe Dreamweaver Beginners course

» See also the Designer Trainers Adobe Dreamweaver Intermediate and CSS web design course

This Beginners and Intermediates Dreamweaver course covers the following areas:

Day 1: Introduction to the tools and features of Dreamweaver

• The principles of web design, effective design of navigation and links and the basics of accessibility.
• How to organise the files in your website
• File management and file types

Designing a simple web page

• Setting a background colour for the page
• Setting default text colours and active link colours
• Giving the page a title

Using tables to layout a page

• % with and pixel width tables
• Setting table properties such as borders, background colours and cell padding

Adding text

• Typing directly into the page or importing text
• Formatting text with CSS styles
• (or formatting text with font tags if you need this for HTML emails or old HTML documents)

Adding images and graphics

• File naming, files sizes and the correct file types
• Setting image properties such as size, border and Alt tags

Making links

• Creating links to other pages and documents
• Adding an email link
• Using CSS to format link colour and hover colour for text links
• Basic HTML recognition and editing
• Using behaviours to create mouseovers effects on graphical buttons
  Create image maps and hotspots
• Design a simple page design and then create a 3 - 5 page website and link those pages together.

Day 2: Intermediate Dreamweaver

Tables

• Designing a page with scaling (% width) tables
• Complex tables and nested tables

Dreamweaver Templates

• Creating and editing templates
• Defining editable areas on the page and setting properties for those areas
• Creating pages based on a template, editing and updating them
• Adding content to pages based on a template
• - If time is available, you may also look at the use of nested Templates for multi-sectioned sites.

Forms

• Creating a simple feedback or enquiry form
• How you can process the information in the form, including sending to an email
• Validating the form (checking that certain fields are filled in with the correct information)

CSS (Cascading Style Sheets)

• How CSS styles are used, updated and applied to HTML documents
• Using CSS - beyond basic text styling
• Class styles, tag redefine, id styes, link styling
• Using CSS to set and control a background image
• Use CSS to change text colour when the mouse moves over a hyperlink
• Creating indented text with CSS Styles
• Creating a colour block under a paragraph of text
• Using CSS to format table borders, background colours and cell padding
• Using CSS to style various elements of a form
• Editing CSS code

Behaviours

• Use Dreamweaver behaviours to add javascript functions (mouseover, pop up window, and others)
• Image rollovers (mouseovers)

Testing & Site Management

• Testing & bug fixing your web pages
• Checking for broken links in your site
• Using the site manager in Dreamweaver to manage and update your files
• How to upload your site to your server
• Using Assets
• Using Find and Replace to change selected content or HTML code throughout the page
• Anchor tags to add links to another part of the same page (for long pages of text)

SEO

• Title tags, Meta tags, text content and search engines

Prices start at £400 (including discounts) but vary for on-site training. Please 'request information' for pricing specific to your requirements.

Design Training provides one-to-one and small group computer training courses for professional design software in Birmingham, the Midlands and around the UK.

Most courses can be customised to your requirements and intermediate or advanced courses will usually be based around working with your own projects and designs. Whether you and your organisation require training on-site at your own office, or you would prefer to come to our training centre, we will help you with your training requirements. Design Training offer you the following:

• Short intensive courses for design software
• One to one training and training for small groups
• Custom courses - tailored to your requirements available for most design software
• On-site computer training - delivered at your offices in Birmingham, Solihull, Redditch, Warwick and Midlands areas. On-site training can be arranged with trainers around the UK including in London, Yorkshire, Manchester and Bristol
• Training for one or two people are available at our premises in South Birmingham (PC based training)
• Workplace training on all systems.
• Experienced trainers with good design skills. Certified trainers are available for some courses
• One month of after-training support

Design Software Training Courses

Design Training specialises in short courses for professional web design, image editing, desktop publishing and graphic design software (including Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Dreamweaver, Adobe Illustrator, QuarkXPress and Adobe InDesign).

Training Locations

Most of the computer training courses are available at client's premesis - on-site in Birmingham and Midlands areas and around the UK, including : Birmingham, Solihull, Redditch, Bromsgrove, Worcester, Driotwich, Malvern, Hereford, Stourbridge, Kidderminster, Wolverhampton, Walsall, Telford, Stafford, Shrewsbury, Lichfield, Derby, Tamworth, Nuneaton, Coventry, Warwick, Leamington Spa, Stratford upon Avon, Evesham, Banbury, Oxford, Northampton, Leicester, Nottingham, etc.. Many of these courses may also be arranged with trainers in other areas of the UK, including Yorkshire, Manchester and London.

Additionally, most of the design courses are aso available for one or two trainees at our premises in Cofton Hackett, South Birmingham.

Customised Courses

Design Training offers customised courses for most applications, and most intermediate and advanced courses are intended to be customised to include working with some of your own designs and projects. Also, Design Training can help you with specific projects - if you are working on a project, training can be based on doing all the things you need to achieve the end result of a finished project.

Design Training offers intensive short courses in the following areas:

• Web design courses
• Photo editing courses
• Desktop publishing courses
• Graphic design courses

If you are interested in design courses and training for you and your business please 'request information'.