Course Outline

Dreamweaver 8 Advanced

Course Length: 1 day

Prerequisites: To ensure your success, we recommend you first take Dreamweaver 8 Introduction or have equivalent knowledge.

Course Description: Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:

• Discuss proper use of CSS; attach a style sheet and create and modify CSS styles; and define content sections by using he <div> tags with IDs.
• Create, update, and detach library items; create a page template; apply templates; identify head elements and meta tags; and add keywords and descriptions to web sites.
• Create interactive forms and apply a variety of input components, and set the tab order of input fields to enhance usability and accessibility.
• Create dynamic user-triggered elements, including simple rollovers and complex navigation bars.
• Create and manage layers by using the Draw Layer tool, manipulate position, size, and visibility of layers using the Layers panel
• Insert Flash buttons and Flash text in a Web page, add Flash and FlashPaper files, and add Windows Player Media files and QuickTime movie files.
• Discuss and setup a dynamic site using the Databases panel; create a recordset using the Bindings panel insert a recordset navigation bar, create master/detail page set, and create search page and results page.
• Check for browser-specific errors using Check Target Browser feature and Target Browser Check panel.

Course Content:

Unit 1: Content sections

· CSS design

· Applying DIVs

Unit 2: Site assets

· Library assets

· Page templates

· Head elements

· Keyword and description tags

Unit 3: Interactive forms

· Form objects

· Accessible forms

Unit 4: Rollovers and behaviors

· Rollovers

· Behaviors

Unit 5: Layers

· Page layers

· Working with layers

Unit 6: Multimedia

· Flash elements

· Multimedia content

Unit 7: Dynamic Web sites

· Introduction to dynamic sites

· Recordsets

· Master/detail pages

· Search functionality

Unit 8: Browser compatibility

· Compatibility testing