Dreamweaver CS6 – Essential Training

Course Curriculum

Chapter 1: Introducing Dreamweaver

Lecture 1: What is Dreamweaver?

Lecture 2: What are we Building with Dreamweaver?

Lecture 3: HTML, CSS, and JavaScript

Lecture 4: Browsers to Download

Lecture 5: The Welcome Screen and The Menu Bar

Lecture 6: The Document Window and The Tabbed File Chooser

Lecture 7: The Document, Style Rendering, and Standard Toolbars

Lecture 8: The Status Bar

Lecture 9: The Properties Inspector

Lecture 10: Tabs and Tab Groups

Lecture 11: Customizing your Working Environment

Lecture 12: Setting Up Browsers for Testing

Lecture 13: Setting Up External Code Editors

Lecture 14: Defining Preferences

Lecture 15: Setting Up Keyboard Shortcuts

Chapter 2: Setting Up a Site

Lecture 1: About Dreamweaver Sites

Lecture 2: Identifying a Web Host Provider

Lecture 3: The Vecta Corp Project

Lecture 4: Creating a Site – Defining the Local Site Properties

Lecture 5: Creating a Site – Defining the Remote Server Properties

Lecture 6: Additional Settings to Consider

Lecture 7: Managing Sites

Lecture 8: Other Options within the Site Menu

Lecture 9: Uploading Your Files : The Site Management Window

Chapter 3: Building a Web Page

Lecture 1: Setting Up

Lecture 2: Creating a New Page

Lecture 3: The Properties Inspector : HTML vs. CSS

Lecture 4: Working with Text

Lecture 5: Working with Word Documents

Lecture 6: Line Breaks versus Paragraph Breaks

Lecture 7: Headings and Paragraphs

Lecture 8: Working with Font Weights

Lecture 9: Working with Lists

Lecture 10: Indenting & Spacing

Lecture 11: Spell Checking

Lecture 12: Adding Horizontal Rules

Lecture 13: Adding Date Stamps

Lecture 14: Modifying Page Properties

Lecture 15: Quickly Adding Your Own Tags

Lecture 16: Working with Images / Image Formats

Lecture 17: Inserting Images

Lecture 18: Setting Image Properties

Chapter 4: Cascading Style Sheets – Part 1 (Building the Website Structure)

Lecture 1: Why Use CSS?

Lecture 2: How CSS Works

Lecture 3: Defining Styles

Lecture 4: Selector Types

Lecture 5: Using the CSS Panel

Lecture 6: Using the CSS-Based Properties Inspector

Lecture 7: Creating a New Style – The New CSS Rule Dialog

Lecture 8: Creating a New Style – The Style Definition Dialog

Lecture 9: Structuring a Web Page with DIVs and CSS

Lecture 10: Creating the Container Rule

Lecture 11: Creating the Header Rule

Lecture 12: Creating the Nav Rule

Lecture 13: Creating the Content Rule

Lecture 14: Creating the Footer Rule

Lecture 15: Finishing Up the Design

Chapter 5: Cascading Style Sheets – Part 2 (Adding Style to the Website)

Lecture 1: Creating and Applying Classes

Lecture 2: Creating and Applying Dependant Selectors / Duplicating Classes

Lecture 3: Creating and Applying Pseudo Class Selectors / Working with Multiple Selectors

Lecture 4: Creating and Applying Styles using Embedded Style Sheets

Lecture 5: Creating and Applying Inline Styles / Renaming Classes

Lecture 6: Creating and Applying Styles within Page Properties

Lecture 7: Introducing HTML5 Section Elements

Lecture 8: Redesigning the Structure using HTML5 Section Elements

Lecture 9: Making the HTML5 Structure Backward Compatible

Lecture 10: Modifying the Structure : A Horizontal Navigation Menu

Lecture 11: Using Pre-Designed CSS Layouts

Chapter 6: Working with Templates and Library Items

Lecture 1: Working with Templates and Library Items

Lecture 2: Understanding Library Items

Lecture 3: Creating a Library Item

Lecture 4: Inserting Library Items

Lecture 5: Editing and Pushing Changes out to the Site

Lecture 6: Creating a Second Library Item for Admins

Lecture 7: Understanding Dreamweaver Templates

Lecture 8: Creating and Saving Templates

Lecture 9: Setting Editable Regions

Lecture 10: Deriving a New Page from a Template

Lecture 11: Applying a Template to an Existing Page

Lecture 12: Editing Templates and Pushing Changes to the Site

Lecture 13: Creating an Editable Tag Attribute

Lecture 14: Defining Optional Regions

Lecture 15: Repeating Regions and the Repeating Table

Lecture 16: Breaking the Inheritance – Detaching from Template

Lecture 17: Working with Multiple Library Items within a Template

Chapter 7: Working with Hyperlinks

Lecture 1: Working with Links

Lecture 2: Absolute vs. Relative Paths

Lecture 3: Getting Started / Linking Text

Lecture 4: Linking Images

Lecture 5: Email Links

Lecture 6: Named Anchors / Placeholders

Lecture 7: Working with Targets

Lecture 8: Image Maps