Dreamweaver 3.0: Advanced for Windows

Course description

Overview: Students will learn advanced techniques for creating Websites using Macromedia Dreamweaver 3.0.

Prerequisites: We designed Dreamweaver 3.0 Advanced for the student who has experience with Dreamweaver 3.0 and wants to move beyond the basic concepts. Students must complete the Dreamweaver 3.0 Introduction course or have equivalent before taking this course.

Performance-based objectives

Lesson objectives help students become comfortable with the course, and also provide a means to evaluate learning. Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:

*           Work with libraries to manage repeating site elements.

*           Create CSS styles to streamline text formatting within a page, and create external style sheets to allow formatting information to be used throughout a site.

*           Create dynamic user-interface elements, including simple rollovers and complex navigation bars.

*           Define keyword, description, and other meta tags in order to make your site visible to automatic search engine spiders.

*           Create layers using a number of techniques, and manage the size, position, stacking order, and visibility of layers.

*           Combine layers with behaviors to provide additional visual feedback for a viewer navigating a site.

*           Work with timelines to create basic animations and complex time-based sequences on your site pages.

*           Target page content to specific browsers and versions.

Course content

Lesson 1: Libraries

Creating a Library

Modifying a Library Item

Lesson 2: Style Sheets

Defining Style Sheets

Applying Style Sheets to Multiple Pages

Lesson 3: Rollovers and Navigation Bars

Rollovers

Adding Image States to a Navigation Bar Using Behaviors

Using the Insert Navigation Bar Tool

Lesson 4: Defining Head Elements

Defining Head Elements

Edit Meta Tags

Lesson 5: Layers

Creating Layers

Using the Layers palette

Layers and Behaviors

Lesson 6: Working with Timelines

Layer Movement

Creating Frame-Based Animation

Creating Dynamic Content

Lesson 7: Browser Targeting

Testing Browser Compatibility

Converting Pages to Earlier Versions

Browser Checking