Adobe Dreamweaver Core Skills: Level 2

Course Description:

  The Adobe Dreamweaver CC Core Skills: Level 2 course is designed for advanced level Dreamweaver users, and will build upon the Level 1 course topics to help students design interactive websites in Dreamweaver CC and optimize their workflow. Students will quickly review Dreamweaver HTML and CSS fundamentals, how to create web framework, how to design for mobile devices, how to work with templates and images, work with navigation, add interactivity and publish content online. The course is always upgraded to latest version of CC as soon as Adobe published new training materials for that version. This normally happens 2-4 months after the version release.

The course will cover the following topics:

• Customizing Your Workspace
• HTML Basics -review
• CSS Basics- review
• Creating a Page Layout
• Working with a Web Framework
• Designing for Mobile Devices
• Working with Templates
• Working with Images
• Inserting nonweb file types
• Working with Navigation
• Adding Interactivity
• Publishing to the Web

Customizing Your Workspace
Personalizing Dreamweaver
Using Extract
Creating custom keyboard shortcuts
Using the Property inspector - Brief Review
Using the Related Files interface - Brief Review
Using tag selectors - Brief Review
Using the CSS Designer - Brief Review
Using the Visual Media Query interface
Using the DOM Viewer
Using the heads-up displays
Exploring, experimenting, and learning
Creating and managing sites / Files Panel - Review

HTML Basics
What is HTML? - Brief Review
Frequently used HTML elements - Brief Review
What is new in HTML5

CSS Basics
HTML vs. CSS formatting - Review
CSS box model - Review
Applying CSS styling - Review
Multiples, classes, and ids, oh my! - Review

Creating a Page Layout
Using predefined layouts - Brief Review

Using a Web Framework
Creating a navigation menu
Creating header content
Building semantic content
Managing Bootstrap component width
Inserting HTML entities
Creating global type styles

Designing for Mobile Devices
Responsive design
Adapting the site to different screen sizes
Using media queries
More information on media queries

Using Templates
Creating a template from an existing layout
Inserting editable regions
Inserting metadata
Producing child pages

Using Images
Inserting an image
Adjusting image positions with CSS classes

Inserting nonweb file types
Using Photoshop Smart Objects (optional)
Copying and pasting images from Photoshop (optional)

Using Navigation
Hyperlink basics - Review all methods of creating links in DreamWeaver
Creating links - internal, external, anchor, mail - Brief Review
Targeting page elements - Review

Adding Interactivity
Learning about Dreamweaver behaviors
Previewing the completed file
Using Dreamweaver behaviors
Using Bootstrap Accordion widgets

Publishing to the Web
Defining a remote site
Cloaking folders and files
Wrapping things up
Putting your site online (optional)
Synchronizing local and remote sites

We offer live-instructor group training classes for your team.

Upskill your team from the comfort of your office or online.

Benefits of Group Training Include:

• Experienced Professional Instructor Trains Your Team
• Content Focused On Your Team's Needs
• Convenient Scheduling and Class Setup
• Significant Per/Student Cost Savings
• Online, On-Site and Blended Options Available

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