DREAMWEAVER CC - WEBSITE DEVELOPMENT Central

Course details

Adobe Dreamweaver CC is the all-in-one visual development tool for creating, publishing, and managing websites and mobile content. In this course, you will learn on how to build web sites and incorporate website-management practices. You will learn techniques on creating new documents and web pages from starter pages and add various types of content such as text, images, and links.

Participants will also learn on the best practices of maintaining a website by harnessing the usage of templates and Cascading Style Sheets (CSS). Finally, users will also learn on uploading the site to a web-server.

GETTING STARTED WITH DREAMWEAVER
Planning and designing a website
Defining a local site
Utilising starter pages from the New Document for a more unified look
Defining editable regions in templates
Saving and creating a template


ADDING AND STRUCTURING TEXT
Controlling document structure
Creating bullets and numbering to promote readability
Creating Headings to prioritize flow
Stylising text using Edge Web Fonts


MANAGING CASCADING STYLE SHEETS (CSS)
An overview of CSS Styles
Using the new CSS Designer to implement styles
Understanding Class Selectors
Appreciating Tag Selectors
Modifying style properties
Attaching external style sheets
Using Code Navigator feature to find related styles easier
View styles in separate style sheets using new Related Files feature
WORKING WITH MEDIA
Identifying different image file-types
Modifying image properties to fit images
snugly into a site
Working with Photoshop
Modifying Smart Objects
Embedding animation using Edge
Animate files
Incorporating HTML5 video to create a more appealing website


WORKING WITH DIFFERENT TYPES OF LINKS
Link Basics
Creating links in Dreamweaver
Using absolute links to link external sites
Using named anchors to link a section
Creating an email link
Implementing image maps for easier hotspot navigation
Utilising links to open a new window


MANAGING SITES
Testing for broken links
Cloaking files to prevent unnecessary files from being uploaded
Uploading files to server