Learning Adobe DreamWeaver CS4
by Greg Bowden (430 pages)
The Learning Adobe DreamWeaver CS4 tutorials provide activity-based web page authoring lessons for beginners and advanced users. There are two modules available:
Module 1 introduces the Adobe DreamWeaver CS4 basics.
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Module 1: DreamWeaver CS4 Basics
Contents (Modules 1 and 2) |
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Chapter 1: Introduction to Dreamweaver CS4 (22 pages) |
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Chapter 2: Using Text and Graphics (23 pages) |
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Chapter 3: Using Tables (28 pages) |
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Chapter 4: Creating Links (13 pages) |
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Chapter 5: Anchor Points and Hotspots (16 pages) |
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Chapter 6: Site Assets and Library Items (22 pages) |
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Chapter 7: Absolute Position Elements (21 pages) |
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Chapter 8: Using Templates (23 pages) |
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Chapter 9: Creating Forms (32 pages) |
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Chapter 10: Navigation Bars (17 pages) |
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Chapter 11: Checking and Uploading Web Files (16 pages) |
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Project 1 Multi-user version only (4 pages) |
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Module 2: DreamWeaver CS4 Advanced Exercises
Chapter 12: Cascading Style Sheets (21 pages) |
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Chapter 13: Creating a CSS Based Page (18 pages) |
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Chapter 14: Adding Content to CSS Pages (14 pages) |
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Chapter 15: Formatting CSS Pages (18 pages) |
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Chapter 16: Using Behaviours (23 pages) |
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Chapter 17: Editing and Importing Tools (12 pages) |
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Chapter 18: Inserting Media (16 pages) |
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Chapter 19: Creating Menus and Tabbed Panels (15 pages) |
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Chapter 20: Commands and Snippets (18 pages) |
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Project 2: Multi-user version only (4 pages) |
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The tutorials can be used onscreen next to the software package, from a tablet or printed. Assignments are provided at the end of each chapter and the multi-user version provides projects at the end of each module.
Module 1
Introduces how to set up a site, format text, insert images, use tables, create links, anchor points and hotspots, manage assets, use AP Elements, create templates and forms, and upload files to a remote server.
Module 2
Covers using CSS styles, creating CSS based page layouts, formatting CSS based pages, using behaviours to validate forms and create help messages, importing Word and Excel files, inserting Photoshop files, Flash Animations and Flash Video, creating spry pop-up menus and using commands and snippets.
Module 1 Chapter Descriptions
Chapter 1: Introduction to DreamWeaver CS4
This chapter demonstrates the different panels and tool bars on the DreamWeaver screen then students are shown how to set up a site.
Chapter 2: Entering Text and Graphics
This chapter provides activities
that demonstrate how to insert text and graphics into a page.
Students are shown how to format text, adjust the size and position
of images, insert page backgrounds and horizontal rules. The
following page is created:
Chapter 3: Using Tables
This chapter demonstrates how to insert and format tables. Students learn how to enter text and images into tables, name tables, adjust column widths and row heights, use rulers and grids and add backgrounds to tables. The following Travel Packages page is created:
Chapter 4: Creating Links
This chapter demonstrates how to link text and graphics. Text then graphic links are added to the Travel Packages page
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Chapter 5: Anchor Points and Hotspots
This chapter demonstrates how to add links within a page (anchor links) and how to create links on sections of a page (hotspots or image maps). The following page is used to create hotspots on a world map.
Chapter 6: Site Assets and Library Items
This chapter demonstrates how to use the Assets panel to manage and use the resources of the site, and how to create Library items such as the date a page was updated message on pages and placing link tables as a library items to automate the updating of links on pages. The following page is used to include a navigation bar library item and an updated date library item.
Chapter 7: Using Absolute Position Elements
This chapter provides activities that demonstrate the use of the DRAW AP DIV tool. It covers how to create a AP Elements, insert content into an AP Element, change the stacking order of AP Elements, move AP Elements, place tables within AP Elements, convert AP Elements to tables and vice versa. The following page is created:
Chapter 8: Using Templates
This chapter introduces to concept of templates. A template for the Travel Agency is created and applied to other pages in the site. Adjustments are made to the template to show how all the pages set to the template are also adjusted. A table is created and modifies to create the structure of the following template:
Chapter 9: Using Forms
This chapter demonstrates how to create Forms. It shows how to insert the form tag, how to insert the text fields, how to insert pop-up menus and add values to the menu, how to insert radio buttons and check boxes, how to insert submit and reset buttons, and how to name the form and set its post properties. The following order form is created:
Chapter 10: Navigation Bars
This chapter demonstrates how to add rollover buttons to create a second navigation system. The template is updated to provide buttons along the left side of the page.
Chapter 11: Checking and Uploading Web Files
This chapter demonstrates how to run browser checks and report on web sites, cloak file types and folders that don't need to be uploaded to a remote sever, uploading files to a remote folder and managing files once they have been uploaded.
Project 1
For multi-user version students are set the task of using the web authoring skills that they have learned during the module to create a web site for a used car dealer. All the text needed to complete the project is included.
Summary of Module 2 Chapters
Chapter 12: Cascading Style Sheets
This chapter demonstrates the difference between internal and external CSS style sheets, how to export styles to an external style sheet, the advantages of external style sheets, how to attach external style sheets to pages and using external style sheets within templates.
Chapter 13: Laying Out a CSS Page
Chapter 13: Laying Out a CSS Page
This chapter demonstrates how to create a CSS based page layout. It includes how to attach a CSS file to a page, how to define DIV tags to regions of the page, how to nest DIV tags and how to set styles to control DIV tags.
Chapter 14: Adding Content to CSS Pages
Students learn how to insert content into the DIV tag regions defined in the previous chapter. A company logo is added to the Banner DIV tag, buttons to the Navigation DIV tag, text links to the secondary navigation region and text to the Content region.
Chapter 15: Formatting CSS pages
This chapter demonstrates how to set styles to control the format and layout of a page. The 4 types of styles are covered - Class, ID, Tag and Compound. Students learn how to apply styles to linked text, along with editing styles and saving the CSS page as a template.
Chapter 16: Using Behaviours
This chapter demonstrates how to use the Tag Inspector panel to set behaviours to provide help messages, popup windows, display larger versions of images, validate data in fields within forms and add effects to images.
Chapter 17: Editing and Importing Tools
This chapter provides activities that demonstrate how to make simple adjustments to images within DreamWeaver using its built in FireWorks tools and how to import formatted text and tables from Microsoft Word and Excel. The following page is created from a supplied Word document.
Chapter 18: Inserting Media
This chapter provides activities that demonstrate how to import Photoshop and Flash media into DreamWeaver pages. Photoshop documents are compressed and linked so that any changes made to the original Photoshop files are automatically updated within the DreamWeaver page. Flash animations and Flash video are also imported.
Chapter 19: Creating Menus and Tabbed Panels
The Spry Menu Bar widgit is used to create a popup menu navigation system and Spry tabbed panels widgit is used to create tabbed panels, which allow more content to be stored on a page.
Chapter 20: Commands and Snippets
This chapter demonstrates how to create custom Commands via the History panel that can be re-used as required, how to add DreamWeaver's supplied Snippets to pages and how to create customised snippets.
Project 2
The multi-user version provides a detailed project.
Students are set the task of using the web authoring skills that they have learned during the module to create a CSS based web site on a topic negotiated with the teacher, or on the provided details about a Real Estate Agency. All the text needed to complete the Real Estate task is included.
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