In Adobe Dreamweaver CS5 - Essential Training, instructor, author, and trainer Zak Ruvalcaba delves into the many powerful features of the latest version of this powerful web design application. This 17 hour DVD covers everything from the simplest basics of using Dreamweaver CS5 to applying it to develop a fully interactive and engaging web site. Zak explains the new interface features, and demonstrates how to create, edit, manage, design, and publish a professional web site with Dreamweaver CS5 and complementary applications.
- Navigate the new Dreamweaver CS5 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 team collaborative features like design notes and reports
- Insert and work with Flash movies within your web pages
- Use behaviors and Spry Effects to simplify JavaScript development
- Create engaging and interactive functionality with Spry Widgets
- Incorporate XML data into your web pages using Spry DataSets
Module 3 - 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 and Paragraphs
Working with Font Weights
Working with Lists
Indenting & Spacing
Spell Checking
Adding a Horizontal Rule
Adding a Date Stamp
Modifying Page Properties
Working with Images / Image Formats
Inserting Images
Setting Image Properties
Module 4 - Tables for Structuring
Tables for Web Page Structuring
Inserting Tables
Modifying Table Properties
Selecting & Modifying Table Cells
Adding & Removing Columns & Rows
Resizing, Splitting, & Merging Table Cells
Adding Content to Tables
Nested Tables
Tracing Images
Expanded Tables Mode
Module 5 - Templates and Library Items
Working with Templates and Library Items
Understanding Library Items
Creating a Library Item
Inserting Library Items
Editing Library Items
Pushing Changes to the Site
Understanding Dreamweaver Templates
Creating and Saving Templates
Setting Editable Regions
Deriving a New Page from a Template
Applying a Template to an Existing Page
Editing Templates / Pushing Changes to Site
Creating an Editable Tag Attribute
Defining Optional Regions
Repeating Regions and the Repeating Table
Breaking the Inheritance
Removing Template Markup
Module 6 - Working with Links
Working with Links
Absolute vs. Relative Paths
Linking Images
Linking Text
Email Links
Named Anchors
Working with Targets
Image Maps
Changing Link Colors
Changing and Checking Links
Module 9 - Forms
Forms Overview
Setting Up / Adding a Form
Text Fields / Password Fields
Multi-line Text Fields (Textarea)
Menus / List Boxes / Jump Menu
Checkboxes / Checkbox Group
Radio Buttons / Radio Group
Submit Button, Reset Button, and Image Field
File Field, Hidden Field, Fieldset, and Label
Stylizing the Form with CSS
Processing the Form Data
Module 10 - Behaviors
Adding Interactivity Using Behaviors
Applying Behaviors with the Behaviors Panel
Call JavaScript
Change Property
Check PlugIn
Drag AP Element
Effects Behaviors
Go to URL
Jump Menu and Jump Menu Go
Open Browser Window
Set Text Behaviors
Show-Hide Elements
Creating a Rollover Image
Validate Form
Module 11 - Workflow and Task Automation
Workflow and Task Automation
The Assets Panel
Snippets
Design Notes
Custom File View Columns
The History Panel
The Reference Panel
Site Reports
Site Synchronization
Checking Links Sitewide
Using Find and Replace
Recording, Playing, & Managing Commands
Inserting Flash Files
Other Commands
Module 12 - The Spry Framework for AJAX
Introducing the Spry Framework for AJAX
Working with Spry Validation
The Spry Menu Bar
Spry Tabbed Panels
The Spry Accordion
The Spry Collapsible Panel
The Spry Tooltip
Create a Management Directory with Spry
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.
