Adobe Dreamweaver Level 2

Summary

Course Aim:

The Dreamweaver Level 2 course is a comprehensive course that builds on the skills developed in the Dreamweaver Level 1 course and includes more in-depth web design and creation techniques. Participants will be able to efficiently use these technqniques of Dreamweaver for the production of interactive web documents.

Course Prerequisites:

The prerequisites for this course is that you have completed the Dreamweaver Level 1 course or have equivalent knowledge.

Course Duration:

Two days 9:00am – 4:30pm

Classroom courses include:

  • Adobe Certified instructors (with min 10 yrs experience)
  • Alpha prepared comprehensive coursenotes with tutorials and exercises (updated frequently to reflect industry trends)
  • Certificates
  • eLearning DVD Package (FREE at course registration where available, see our SPECIALS)
  • After course support, unlimited HELP DESK (via email, to reinforce the learning), helpdesk@alphacc.com.au
  • Training guarantee
  • FREE repeat of public course within 6 months (where required, and on same version), see terms & conditions

Content

Course Content

During this course you will learn about:

Topic 1 More on Cascading Style Sheets

  • Topic Objectives
  • Style Rules and Their Attributes
  • The CSS Styles panel in All mode
  • The CSS Styles panel in Current mode
  • Cascading Order and Inheritance of Styles
  • Choosing a Media Type
  • Contextual selectors
  • Group Selectors
  • Creating Layouts with CSS
  • Checking CSS and HTML coding
  • Using Dreamweaver’s Pre-designed CSS Layouts
  • Topic Summary
  • Topic Review

Topic 2 Using AP Elements

  • Topic Objectives
  • About AP elements in Dreamweaver
  • HTML code for AP Div elements
  • Inserting an AP Div
  • Working with nested AP Divs
  • The AP Elements panel
  • Selecting AP elements
  • Changing the stacking order of AP elements
  • Viewing or setting AP element preferences
  • Viewing or setting properties for a single AP element
  • Viewing or setting properties for multiple AP elements
  • Showing and hiding AP elements
  • Resizing AP elements
  • Moving AP elements
  • Aligning AP elements
  • Aligning AP Elements Using Guides
  • Aligning AP Elements Using the Layout Grid
  • Converting AP elements to div tags
  • Topic Summary
  • Topic Review

Topic 3 Using Behaviours

  • Topic Objectives
  • About behaviours
  • Behaviors panel overview
  • Applying a behaviour
  • Changing or deleting a behaviour
  • Updating a behaviour
  • Downloading and installing third‑party behaviours
  • Using built-in behaviours
  • The Open Browser Window behaviour
  • The Show-Hide Elements behaviour
  • The Swap Image behaviour
  • The Popup Message behaviour
  • Topic Summary
  • Topic Review

Topic 4 Templates: Advanced Features

  • Topic Objectives
  • Review of Dreamweaver templates
  • About template repeating regions
  • Creating a repeating region in a template
  • Inserting a repeating table
  • Editing repeating regions
  • About template optional regions
  • Editable and non-editable optional regions
  • Inserting a non-editable optional region
  • Inserting an editable optional region
  • Setting display options of an optional region in a document based on a template
  • Specifying editable tag attributes in a template
  • About nested templates
  • Creating a nested template
  • Preventing an editable region from passing through to a nested template
  • Topic Summary
  • Topic Review

Topic 5 More on Working With Images

  • Topic Objectives
  • Creating a Rollover Image
  • Editing a Rollover Image
  • Removing a Rollover behaviour
  • Inserting an Image Map
  • Editing an Image Map
  • Working with an External Image Editor
  • Working With Photoshop
  • Image Compression Settings
  • Editing Smart Objects
  • Copy and paste a selection from Photoshop
  • Topic Summary
  • Topic Review

Topic 6 Forms

  • Topic Objectives
  • Understanding Forms
  • Creating a Form
  • Accessibility options for forms
  • Form Objects
  • Text Fields
  • List/Menu Fields
  • Radio Buttons
  • Checkboxes
  • Buttons
  • Processing Forms
  • Creating a Jump Menu
  • Topic Summary
  • Topic Review

Topic 7 Ajax and Spry Layout Widgets

  • Topic Objectives
  • What is Ajax?
  • What is Spry?
  • About Spry widgets
  • Support files for Spry Widgets
  • The Spry Accordion panel widget
  • Styling the Accordion widget
  • The Menu Bar widget
  • Styling the Menu Bar widget
  • The Spry Collapsible Panel widget
  • Styling the Collapsible Panel widget
  • The Spry Tabbed Panels widget
  • Styling the Tabbed Panels widget
  • The Spry Tooltip widget
  • Topic Summary
  • Topic Review

Topic 8 Advanced Form Validation with Spry Form Widgets

  • Topic Objectives
  • Validating form fields
  • Spry Form Widgets
  • About the Validation Text Field widget
  • Inserting the Validation Text Field widget
  • Styling the Validation Text Field widget
  • About the Validation Text Area widget
  • Inserting the Validation Text Area widget
  • Styling the Validation Text Area widget
  • About the Validation Select widget
  • Inserting the Validation Select widget
  • Styling the Validation Select widget
  • About the Validation Checkbox widget
  • Inserting the Validation Checkbox widget
  • Inserting multiple checkboxes in a Validation Checkbox widget
  • Other Form Validation Widgets
  • Topic Summary
  • Topic Review

Topic 9 Integrating Data Sets with Spry

  • Topic Objectives
  • What is XML?
  • Main differences between XML and HTML
  • Connecting to XML Data
  • Overview of Spry Data Workflow
  • Important Note to PC users
  • Connecting to HTML data
  • Defining a Spry Data Set
  • Creating a Spry Region
  • Choosing a Layout for the Data Set
  • Creating a Spry Repeat Region
  • Topic Summary
  • Topic Review

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