Macromedia Dreamweaver 8 Advanced

This 1-day course builds on the skills and concepts taught in Dreamweaver 8: Basic. Students will learn how to apply CSS styles, manage site assets, create interactive forms, apply rollovers and other behaviors, and create dynamic Web pages that interact with a database.

Students will learn how to:

• Discuss some advantages and disadvantages of using CSS; attach a style sheet and create and modify CSS styles; and define content sections by using tags with IDs.
• Create, update, and detach library items; create a page template, create pages based on a template, and apply a template to an existing page; identify the function of head elements and meta tags; and add keywords and a description to a Web site.
• Create interactive forms and apply a variety of input components, and set the tab order of input fields to enhance the usability and accessibility of a form.
• Create a navigation bar that uses rollover images, create a swap image, and create a user-triggered action.
• Insert layers by using the Draw Layer tool; manipulate the position, size, and visibility of layers by using the Layers panel; and control layer visibility dynamically.
• Insert Flash buttons and Flash text in a Web page, add Flash and FlashPaper files, and add Windows Media Player movie files and QuickTime movie files.
• Discuss dynamic sites, and set up a dynamic site by using the Databases panel; create a recordset by using the Bindings panel, and insert a recordset navigation bar; create a master/detail page set to display summary and detail information; and create a search page and a results page to add search functionality to a recordset.
• Check for browser-specific errors by using the Check Target Browsers feature and the Target Browser Check panel, and apply the Check Browser behavior

Target audience

Before taking this course, you should be familiar with personal computers and Windows XP. You should also have a good understanding of the Internet and basic knowledge of web page structure and have attended Dreamweaver 8 Introduction or have equivalent knowledge and experience.

Course content

Content sections CSS design • Applying DIVs

Site assets Library assets • Page templates • Head elements • Keyword and description tags

Interactive forms Form objects • Accessible forms

Rollovers and behaviors Rollovers • Behaviors

Layers Page layers • Working with layers

Multimedia Flash elements • Multimedia content

Dynamic Web sites Introduction to dynamic sites • Recordsets • Master/detail pages • Search functionality

Browser compatibility Compatibility testing

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