Dreamweaver 4.0 Advanced: Windows

¬         Course Description
Overview: Dreamweaver 4.0 Advanced is a hands-on instruction book that will introduce you to advanced concepts of the Dreamweaver 4.0 Web development application. In this course, you will expand on the knowledge you gained in the Dreamweaver 4.0 Introduction course. You will work with advanced Web site creation features available in Dreamweaver, including libraries and behaviors. In addition, you will utilize many of the new features available within the HTML 4 standard including style sheets and layers.

Course Content

Lesson 1: Rollovers and Navigation Bars
 Rollovers
 Defining a Site
 Creating Simple Rollovers
 Adding Image States to a Navigation Bar Using Behaviors
 Building a Navigation Bar using Tables
 Creating the Initial Rollovers
 Adding a “Clickâ€? State to a Navigation Bar
 Testing Rollovers in a Browser
 Using the Insert Navigation Bar Tool
 Build a Navigation Bar Using the Insert Navigation Bar Tool
 Flash Buttons and Text
 Adding Flash Buttons and Text to a page.

Lesson 2: Libraries
 Creating a Library
 Adding a Library Item
 Placing a Library Item
 Modifying Library Items within the Library Panel
 Modifying a Library Item

 Defining Head Elements and Managing Keyboard Shortcuts
 Defining Head Elements
 Examining Meta Tags
 Defining a Keyword Tag
 Defining a Description Tag
 Editing Meta Tags
 Editing the Description Meta Tag
 Orientation to Keyboard Shortcuts
 Using the Keyboard Shortcut Editor

Lesson 4: Style Sheets
 Defining Style Sheets
TAltering an Existing HTML Tag
 Creating Classes
 Applying Styles to Format Text
 Using the CSS Selector
 Applying Style Sheets to Multiple Pages
 Exporting Style Sheets
 Linking Style Sheets
 Applying Linked Styles to Text
 Redefining Style Sheets

Lesson 5: Layers
 Creating Layers
 Inserting a Layer
 Creating a Layer with the Draw Layer Button
 TopiUsing the Layers palette
 Naming Layers
 Setting Layer Visibility
 Setting the Stacking Order
 Layer Style Sheets
 Defining a Layer with Style Sheets
 Layers and Behaviors
 Creating a Pop-Up Message
 Controlling Layer Visibility Using Behaviors
 Inserting Rich Media Objects
 Inserting a Flash Movie into a Layer

Lesson 6: The History Palette
 The History Palette
 Using the History Palette
 Recording Steps
 Recording Steps for Easy Reuse
 Saving Steps to the Commands Menu
 Saving Steps as Sharable Commands

Lesson 7: Browser Targeting
 Browser Compatibility
 Testing Browser Compatibility
 Converting Pages to Earlier Versions
 Converting Pages from Version 4 to 3
 TopBrowser Checking
 Using a Behavior to Check the Viewer's Browser

Lesson 8: Coding Tools
 Coding Tools