Dreamweaver Intermediate: Web Project |
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| Lecturer | Martha Arifin |
| Duration | Three Saturdays 10.00am – 4.00pm |
| Dates | March 31, April 14, 21 (no class April 7, Easter) |
| May 26, June 2, 16 (no class June 9, Queen’s Birthday Weekend) | |
| Fee | $792 |
| Venue | Billy Blue College of Design, 171 Pacific Highway, North Sydney |
Course Outline
Learn advanced CSS and use Dreamweaver to produce a more sophisticated web layout creation using CSS and Spry, among other things. Use Dreamweaver as the application tool and experience the building of an entire website yourself, in a workshop environment, using intermediate and advanced techniques.
Who should attend?
This is an intermediate Dreamweaver course, ideal if you want to take your skills from the Dreamweaver Basic course to the next level of expertise. It’s ideal too if you wish to upgrade your Dreamweaver skills on CSS.
Course Outcomes
At the end of this course you will be able to:
• Prepare a Photoshop layout for slicing
• Optimising images for web
• Create, apply & modify CSS
• Apply DIV tags for layout
• Integrate multimedia elements e.g. Flash, streaming video, sound
• Add/Customise Spry widgets
• Integrate data sets with Spry
• Create a working online form
• Set up FTP for uploading to a web server
Course Content
Working with Images
• Working with Photoshop
• Image optimisation settings
• Slicing for HTML
CSS (Cascading Style Sheets)
• Style rules & attributes
• Using CSS Styles panel
• Assigning media types
• Creating layouts with CSS
• CSS based navigation
• Using Dreamweaver’s CSS layouts
Styling Forms
• Form structure
• Styling form elements globally
• Using classes for form elements
• Adding user interaction
• Spry form validation fields
Working with Flash & Video
• Inserting Flash files
• Setting properties for Flash
• Adding Flash video & YouTube video
Introduction to Spry
• What is AJAX?
• What is Spry?
• What is XML?
• Spry overview
• Spry Effects & Spry Widgets
• Building navigation through Spry
• Validating form data with Spry
Integrating Data Sets with Spry
• What is Spry dataset?
• Creating Spry datasets with Dreamweaver
• XML, HTML dataset
• Using master/detail regions
Uploading web pages to remote server
• What is FTP?
• Setting up FTP information
• Prepare files for publishing
Course Prerequisites
This is an intermediate/advanced Dreamweaver course. Students must know their way around Dreamweaver - how to set a local site, add images and hyperlinks, use templates, library items, create/modify table, create rollover images, add basic forms, use basic CSS, and apply DIV tag - or have completed Billy Blue’s Dreamweaver Basic course.
Lecturer’s Biography
Martha Arifin has over ten years experience in graphics, web and multimedia. She started out as a graphic designer in a local advertising agency, has built up her career as an Art Director before moving into the web space. Now a Senior Project Manager and Owner at Fitting Room Projects (www.fittingroom.com.au), Martha specialises in web and online applications. Projects she manages range from the creation of commercial corporate websites, development of content management systems and Flash interaction, to complex database and software development for small to medium organisations. She also manages a highly profitable online business and is an aspiring online entrepreneur.
