Adobe Dreamweaver
Intermediate Web Design using Dreamweaver
Take your web design skills and knowledge to the next level with more of the benefits of working within Dreamweaver, more functionality using behaviours and a greater understanding of what it takes to build a better, cleaner more manageable professional quality website.
- Cost : £309 for non-graduates / £419 for graduatesExplain the prices
- Duration : 5 days (1 day a week)
This course is a 5 day fully trainer led course that runs 1 day a week over 5 weeks. Please click on an available date at the bottom of this page for more details.
Course Outline
We will take a deeper looking into the Dreamweaver to build website that work for the user the designer and with a greater range of functions from imbedded video and animations to Search friendly, usable site designs.
To gain better web design skills we will look further into CSS and Layer to create more flexible site design that can be easily adapted and managed via external and internal style sheets. Once you can build effectively we will look at what make a good site into a great site.
Delegates can also gain professional qualification credits towards a 60 credit University Certificate of Professional Development or degree from De Montfort University.
This module is worth 15 UCPD credits.
Overview
The course covers the following areas :
- Understanding web technologies
- E-commerce design
- Flash based site design
- Content management sites
- Forums
- Blogs
- Personalising the Dreamweaver workspace
- Fit for purpose workspaces
- Saving personal settings
- Wire frames using Layers (AP DIV)
- Natural flow of elements
- Clever CSS
- Templates (DIV based)
- Intermediate CSS (Cascading Style Sheets)
- ID's
- Classes
- Tags
- Effective use of graphics with CSS
- Repeat techniques
- Background images
- Photoshop - navigation and animation
- Creating buttons
- Animated GIFs
- Optimising outputs
- Creative use of PNGs
- Behaviours
- Site interaction enhancement
- Rollovers and image switches
- New windows
- More resources
- Further functionality
- Video
- Audio
- Flash animation
- Enhancing for search engine
- Meta data
- Using Tags to your advantage
- Designing from a small to a large site
- Site structures
- Fix sites
- Flexible sites
- Categorising
Overview cont.
- Usability and site progression
- User testing
- Site statistics
- Online resources
- Useful add ons
- Forum sections
- Axis Community
Who is it aimed at?
This course is aimed at :
- Business staff who would like to design and develop a self managed web site for their business or organisation
- A sole trader looking to produce all online marketing and web design work for their own business to be truly independent
- Anyone wanting to cut out the cost and time delay of external web designer contracts.
Entry requirements
Either prior knowledge of web design with divs (not tables and cells layout) or completion of the Intro to Web Design using Dreamweaver course. Delegates should have an understanding of basics of either Windows or Mac desktop environments and have a basic ability to manage files and documents. If you are unsure about these requirements, please contact us via the contact us page.
Delivery method
The course is a 5 day fully trainer led course. To help reduce the effect on your business of losing a member of staff for 5 days, this course runs 1 day a week over 5 weeks. Delegates then have the time needed to absorb and implement the information gained during these intensive training days.
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Paul Grantham
Paul has been designing for the web for over 7 years and has produced both web sites and graphic web concepts for regional councils, sole traders, National Trust attractions and online networking projects. Read more about PaulSorry - No Places Available
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