“Dreamweaver Made Simple” is a video training guide for beginning Dreamweaver web developers. There are over 30 video tutorials that you can download which will guide you step-by-step in building your website.
Here is an overview of the video tutorials provided in the Dreamweaver Made Simple training guide:
Module 1. Getting started with Dreamweaver CS4
5 Interactive Video Lessons
* Setup Dreamweaver before you get started
* Six steps to building your Website
* Designing your site – how to design your site layout
* Content Creation – How to prepare and setup all the sample practise files you’ll be using to build your “practise” website.
* Creating a single page website (minisite) – How to create your first page
* What name you MUST give to your “home page” (get this wrong and your website won’t even work!)
Module 2. How to layout your first page
10 Interactive Video Lessons
* Creating a Table – The fastest and simplest way to layout your web page
* Adding a Banner Graphic -
* How to quickly and easily add Text to your page
* Formatting Text – Simple formatting steps to create great looking pages
* Creating Links – How to create links to other pages
* Background Graphics – How to add great background graphics
* Add professional looking navigation bars with grahpic buttons
* Using Forms – Include easy to use forms on your web pages
* Using Tables to organise your page – how to organise text and images using tables
* How to position text and images – positioning text and images without using tables
Module 3. Create a multipage site using templates
2 Interactive Video Lessons
* Using Templates – Save 100’s of hours building your website by using templates
* How to create a template in literally seconds
* How to create a new page from a template
Module 4. Advanced styling with CSS
2 Interactive Video Lessons
* Styling with Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) – Quickly and easily change the font style across your whole website
* How to properly setup you site so updating styles is as easy as 1-2-3
* Attaching our Style Sheet to an existing webpage – Keep all your website styles in one single file (makes updating your site a cinch)
Module 5. Utilities in Dreamweaver
2 Interactive Video Lessons
* Switching Views – The difference between code view and design view (and how to use them)
* Spell Checker – Using the spell checker to get your spelling up to scratch
* Find and Replace – Use find and replace to replace, text, images, html code in seconds
* Link Checker – How to check all your page links to make sure your site actually works!
Module 6. Uploading your website
1 Interactive Video Lesson
* How to get your site live on the internet for others to see
* Uploading your site to your web hosting provider
Module 7. Quick reference guide and advanced topics
8 Interactive Video Lessons
* Top 10 keyboard shortcuts to speed up the web design process
* Alt Tags – Understand ‘ALT’ tags and know when and how to use them
* Anchors – How to link to sections within the same page
* Graphics – Insert graphics amongst your text
* Page Properties and Link Colors – Change page properties like background color, default font style and more
* Change the default link colors and style
* Rollover images – Create cool looking ‘rollover’ effects (that’s when an image changes when your visitor rolls his mouse over it)
* Meta tags – what they are and how to use them
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