In Adobe Dreamweaver CS3 - Essential Training, instructor, author, and trainer Zak Ruvalcaba delves into the many powerful features of the this powerful web design application. This 12 hour DVD covers everything from the simplest basics of using Dreamweaver CS3 to applying it to develop a fully interactive and engaging web site. Zak explains the interface features, and demonstrates how to create, edit, manage, design, and publish a professional web site with Dreamweaver CS3 and complementary applications.
- Navigate the Dreamweaver interface
- Create web pages with basic and advanced formatting
- Upload web pages to a web hosting provider
- Integrate tables for structuring purposes
- Link between web pages
- Work with forms and form objects
- Format web pages using Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)
- Work with structuring techniques using CSS and DIV tags
- Automate workflow's using templates and library items
- Automate tasks using Commands, the Assets panel, and Snippets
- Use behaviors to simplify JavaScript development
- Work with AP Elements and Timelines for greater interactivity
Module 1 - The Dreamweaver Interface
What is Dreamweaver?
What are we Building with Dreamweaver?
Navigating the Dreamweaver Workspace
The Document Window
Document Toolbar
Status Bar
The Properties Inspector
Panels and Panel Groups
Creating a Site
Using the Dreamweaver FTP Client
Module 2 - Building a Web Page
Setting Up
Creating a New Page
Formatting Text with HTML vs. CSS
Working with Text
Working with Word Documents
Line Breaks versus Paragraph Breaks
Headings
Working with Font Faces / Font Families
Working with Font Sizes
Working with Font Colors and Weights
Working with Lists
Alignments and Indenting
Spell Checking
Adding a Horizontal Rule
Adding a Date Stamp
Modifying Page Properties
Working with Images / Image Formats
Inserting Images
Setting Image Properties
Module 3 - Structuring with Tables
Tables for Web Page Structuring
Inserting Tables
Selecting Table Elements
Adding & Removing Columns & Rows
Resizing Table Elements
Adding Content to Tables
Nested Tables
Adding the Finishing Touches
Tracing Images
Creating Tables in Layout Mode
Module 4 - Hyperlinks and Frames
Working with Links
Absolute vs. Relative Links
Text & Image Links
Email Links
Named Anchors
Working with Targets
Image Maps
Checking Links
Designing Web Pages using Frames
Using the Frames Panel to Manage Framesets & Frames
Properties for Framesets and Frames
Linking to Frames
Saving Frames and Framesets
Module 5 - HTML Forms
Forms Overview
Adding Forms
Text Fields / Password Fields / Textarea
Menus & List Boxes
Checkboxes
Radio Buttons
Submit & Reset Buttons
Processing the Form Data
Other Form Elements
Module 6 - Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)
Why Use CSS?
How CSS Works
Defining Styles
Selector Types
The CSS Panel to Create and Manage Styles
The Style Definition Dialog
Applying and Editing CSS Styles
Pseudo Class Selectors
Structuring a Web Page Using CSS
Built-In CSS Page Layouts
Module 7 - Worlflow and Task Automation
Dreamweaver Task Automation
The Assets Panel
Creating Library Items
Inserting Library Items
Library Item Management
About Templates
Creating and Saving Templates
Setting Editable Regions
Working with Optional Regions
Working with Editable Attributes
Working with the Repeating Table
Using Find and Replace
Using Commands
Module 8 - Behaviors
Adding Interactivity Using Behaviors
Applying Behaviors with the Behaviors Panel
Call JavaScript
Change Property
Check PlugIn
Effects Behaviors
Go to URL
Jump Menu and Jump Menu Go
Open Browser Window
Set Text Behaviors
Swap Image and Swap Image Restore
Validate Form
Deprecated Behaviors
Module 9 - AP Elements and the Timeline
AP Elements Overview
Using the AP Elements Panel
Working with the Timeline
Adding AP Elements to the Timeline
Making an Element Animate
Behaviors and the Timeline
Drag AP Element
Show-Hide Elements
Timeline Behaviors
Building an Animated Menu
Instructor: Zak Ruvalcaba
Zak Ruvalcaba has been researching, designing, and developing for the web
since 1995. He holds a Bachelor's Degree from San Diego State University and a Master of Science in
Instructional Technology from National University in San Diego. He served as Creative Director
with EPIC Solutions until 1998. His expertise in developing Web applications led him to a position
as Manager of Web Development at SkyDesk, Inc., where he developed Web applications for such
companies as Gateway, HP, Toshiba, IBM, Intuit, Peachtree, Dell, Covad Communications, and Microsoft.
He's worked for such companies as Wireless Knowledge (a Microsoft / Qualcomm company) as a wireless
software engineer developing web solutions for companies including Mellon Financial, Goldman Saks,
TV Guide, Healthbanks, The Gartner Group, Microsoft, Qualcomm, and Commerce One. His skill set
includes technologies and languages from HTML/XHTML, XML/XSLT/XPATH/XQUERY, JavaScript, CSS,
ASP, ASP.NET, VB, C#, ADO.NET, Web Services, SQL, T-SQL, Flash, ActionScript, and ColdFusion.
Aside from teaching and holding design lectures on various technologies and tools including HTML,
Dreamweaver, Flash, ASP.NET, ADO.NET, and Web Services for the San Diego Community College District,
Palomar College, and Mt. San Jacinto College, Zak Ruvalcaba is the author of the 10 Minute Guide to
Dreamweaver 4 on Que Publishing, Build Your Own ASP.NET Website using C# and VB on SitePoint Press,
Dreamweaver CS4 Unleashed on Sams Publishing, and Beginning Expression Web on Wrox Press.
Zak is a Microsoft Certified Application Developer for .NET (MCAD) and a Microsoft Certified
Solutions Developer for .NET (MCSD). He has also written numerous online articles involving Web
development, specifically ASP.NET technologies for Sitepoint.com as well as a featured cover story
in ASP.NET Pro Magazine's March 2005 issue.
