Web Creation with Dreamweaver/Fireworks CS3

How do websites work?

• The ‘bigger picture’ the Internet
• Enabling your website to be viewed on the Internet
• Building a user friendly website
• Your target audience
• Accessibility and legal responsibilities

Dreamweaver CS3 Overview

• Introducing Dreamweaver CS3
• Learning the interface
• Dreamweaver Fireworks workflow

Fireworks CS3 Overview

• Introducing Fireworks CS3
• Learning the interface
• Fireworks Dreamweaver workflow

HTML Code

• Understanding HTML code
• Viewing examples of HTML code
• Basic HTML exercises

Getting Started

• Creating a site folder
• Creating a new local site
• Working with your site files

Basic Page Creation

• Create a new basic HTML page
• Add and format text content
• Insert graphics and images
• Test and preview the page

Page Layout with Tables

• Overview of tables
• Designing a page layout with tables
• Creating table structures
• Modifying and nesting tables
• Formatting text, images and data in tables

Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)

• Overview of CSS
• Styling with CSS
• Creating an internal style sheet
• Creating an external style sheet
• Attaching style sheets to multiple pages

Navigating your site

• Understanding site navigation
• Creating internal site links
• Creating external links
• Creating email links
• Creating page anchor links
• Creating image links

Page Layout with CSS

• Using layers for page layout
• Adding CSS to layers
• Using absolute and relative positioning
• Designing with DIVs
• Designing navigation links with CSS
• Importing tabular data

Working with Graphics and Images

• Overview of web-based image creation
• Sourcing, editing and optimizing images
• Creating and manipulating graphics
• Creating slices, rollovers and hotspots
• Adding Flash content

Templates and Libraries

• Overview of templates
• Creating site templates
• Defining editable regions
• Applying templates
• Modify and update templates
• Create a site library
• Modify and update library items

Adding Interactive Content

• Overview of JavaScript Behaviours
• Create and edit a JavaScript Behaviour

Creating Forms

• Understanding forms
• Create a basic form
• Processing a form

Site Testing, Maintenance and Uploading

• Testing your site
• Connecting your site to the Internet
• Uploading and maintaining your site