This course is designed for students who have completed the Dreamweaver 4 Foundation course & who want to learn many of Dreamweaver’s advanced features to create interesting and exciting websites with efficiency.

At course completion

After completing this course, participants will be able to:
~      Work with libraries to create web pages that incorporate repetitive elements.
~      Use style sheets to increase control over the appearance of text beyond HTML tags.
~      Create rollovers to add visual interest to navigation controls on a site.
~      Work with Dreamweaver’s behaviours to control dynamic page content.
~      Define head elements, including keyword & description tags.
~      Work with layers to gain precise layout control of page elements.
~      Utilise timelines to sequence events on a page.
~      Assure compatibility with multiple browser versions using browser targeting.

Prerequisites

Participants are expected to be familiar with Windows 95, 98, NT4, 2000 Primer, and have experience using Macromedia Dreamweaver 4.

Related Courses

~     Windows 95, 98, 2000 or NT Primer
~     De-mystifying the Net with IE4 or Netscape
~     Dreamweaver 4 - introduction

Tailored training is available

Topics

~    Libraries - add a library item; place a library item; modify a library item

~    Style sheets - alter an existing HTML tag; create classes; apply styles; use the CSS selector; link style sheets; redefine style sheets

~    Rollovers

~    Behaviours

~    Define head elements - meta tags; keywords; description; refresh; edit meta tags

~    Layout tables - create layout tables; create, resize and delete layout cells; switch between layout view and standard view; refresh

~    Layers - create layers; use the layers palette; layers and behaviours

~     Work with timelines - layer movement; basic animation; create dynamic content

~    Targeting - test browser compatibility; convert pages from internet browser version 4 to 3; browser checking

~    Working with templates.