Dreamweaver : Level 2

Course Length: 1 Day

Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:

Create Rollovers and Navigation Bars
Create and modify Library items
Define Head Elements and manage keyboard shortcuts
Define and apply style sheets
Create Layers and use the Layers palette
Insert a Flash Movie into a layer
Work with the History Palette
Browser targeting
Coding Tools

Dreamweaver 4: Level 1 or equivalent experience

Lesson 1: Rollovers and Navigation Bars
Rollovers
Defining a Site
Creating Simple Rollovers
Adding Image States to a Navigation Bar Using Behaviors
Building a Navigation Bar using Tables
Creating the Initial Rollovers
Adding a State to a Navigation Bar
Testing Rollovers in a Browser
Build a Navigation Bar Using the Insert Navigation Bar Tool
Adding Flash Buttons and Text to a page

Lesson 2: Libraries
Creating a Library
Adding a Library Item
Placing a Library Item
Modifying Library Items within the Library Panel

Lesson 3: Defining Head Elements and Managing Keyboard Shortcuts
Defining Head Elements
Examining Meta Tags
Defining a Keyword Tag
Defining a Description Tag
Editing Meta Tags
Orientation to Keyboard Shortcuts
Using the Keyboard Shortcut Editor

Lesson 4: Style Sheets
Defining Style Sheets
Altering an Existing HTML Tag
Creating Classes
Applying Styles to Format Text
Using the CSS Selector
Applying Style Sheets to Multiple Pages
Exporting Style Sheets
Linking Style Sheets
Applying Linked Styles to Text
Redefining Style Sheets

Lesson 5: Layers
Creating Layers
Inserting a Layer
Creating a Layer with the Draw Layer Button

Using the Layers palette
Naming Layers
Setting Layer Visibility
Setting the Stacking Order

Defining a Layer with Style Sheets
Layers and Behaviors
Creating a Pop-Up Message
Controlling Layer Visibility Using Behaviors
Inserting Rich Media Objects
Inserting a Flash Movie into a Layer

Lesson 6: The History Palette
Using the History Palette
Recording Steps
Recording Steps for Easy Reuse

Saving Steps to the Commands Menu
Saving Steps as Sharable Commands

Lesson 7: Browser Targeting
Browser Compatibility
Testing Browser Compatibility

Converting Pages to Earlier Versions
Converting Pages from Version 4 to 3
Browser Checking
Using a Behavior to Check the Viewer's Browser

Lesson 8: Coding Tools
Using coding tools