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Dreamweaver 8

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Mastering Dreamweaver 8 is a quick start tutorial to teach you the essential features of Dreamweaver 8. This is a self-paced program to guide you from start to finish without any prior knowledge of web design nor Dreamweaver.

• Learn Macromedia Dreamweaver 8 quickly and easily
• Clear step-by-step guide with narrated instructions
• View in full screen for easy-to-follow instructions
• Up to 20X faster than learning from a book
• Interact with the program to retain maximum learning
• Use sample files to practice along in Dreamweaver 8 software program
• Approximately 10 Hours training time

Lessons Included:

Lesson 1 - Getting started

• Open Macromedia Dreamweaver 8
• Set up a site for your web pages
• Include and edit text
• Include and edit images

Lesson 2 – Synchronizing HTML Layout

• Synchronize files between remote and local site
• Create and edit basic tables

Lesson 3 – Basic Tables Operations

• Edit rows and columns
• Set the width and height of table cell
• Change table cell background color
• Split and merge table cells

Lesson 4 – Inserting Background Images & Hyperlinks

• How to create a background image of a table
• How to create a background color of a page
• Search and understand head contents
• Create meta and head tags
• Insert images
• Create hyperlinks and mail-to links

Lesson 5 – Cloaking Folders & Locating Documents

• Waive folder from being synchronized
• Find and replace information from a specific page and the entire site.
• Locate a file from a remote and a local site

Lesson 6 – Creating Links and Scripts

• Insert a Javascript
• Create anchors
• Create links to images and html pages
• Check broken links
• Set a page as your homepage
• Change previous created links to other links

Lesson 7 – Developing Rollover Objects

• Create a simple rollover images
• Create a rollover image with a table

Lesson 8 – Creating Forms

• Insert text field and password forms within a table
• Insert and set up a checkbox
• Insert and set up a radio group
• Insert and set up menu and lists
• Insert and set up a jump menu
• Insert and set up a file field
• Insert and set up an image field
• Create a submit button
• Create a reset button

Lesson 9 – Understanding The Assets And Library Panels

• Read assets panel and manipulate their objects
• Create library items
• Insert library items into html pages
• Update library files

Lesson 10 – Designing With Templates

• Create a template
• Create editable region
• Insert a table into an editable region
• Detach template from a page

Lesson 11 – Working with Jump Menus

• Create a jump menu
• Set up menu items and URLs
• Create a navigation bar
• Create navigation images and URLs
• Create design notes for a page
• Create design notes for objects

Lesson 12 – Working with Cascading Style Sheets

• Create a CSS file
• Edit font style using the CSS tool
• Link CSS file to web page
• Create your own CSS style file for a specific text

Lesson 13 – Adding Sound Files and Image Maps

• Insert audio file
• Insert a wave file with plug-in
• Create hyperlinks on specific areas on images by image mapping 

Lesson 14 – Working with layers

• Create multiple layers on a page
• Insert background colors and image on layers
• Detach nested layer from parent layer
• Convert layers to a table

Lesson 15 – Generating Dynamic HTML Frames

• Show grids on programs
• Add URL behavior to layer
• Create frames
• Save frames
• Create hyperlinks and add text on layers
• Set up hyperlinks with frames
• Adapt your page to different web browsers

Tips and Tricks:

• Accessing Alternative FTP port
• Adding multiple space
• Background table image issue
• Creating a null link
• Creating and customizing email links
• FTP time outs
• Image links
• Inserting a jump menu
• Importing MS word documents
• Line spacing
• Linking PDF [?] files
• Sharing HTML documents with Unix users
• Uploading dependent files
• Using ASCII ANSI and special characters
• Using site maps
• Website not updated on Browser

* If Dreamweaver 8 is currently installed on your computer. you may use it to practice with Mastering Dreamweaver; however no actual Dreamweaver 8 program is needed to run the dynamic simulations on this CD [?]!

System Requirements:

• Windows XP [?]© Pro, Home, NT, 98
• Intel Pentium 133 Mhz or higher
• 32MB RAM
• 10MB free disk space
• 24X CD-ROM
• 1024 x 768 monitor resolution

Note: Some systems may require you to download the latest Flash player from Adobe. Get the Flash Player Free.

Price: $39.95 $29.95

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