Welcome to Dreamweaver level I
(Beginning Web site Creation / maintenance / best practices to save you time) - Course Files Here
Today's Outline:
- Intro - Your goals with dreamweaver
- planning your site
- Are you going to be the only one working on it?
- design discussion - site structure and graphics layout
- the "dimensions" of the web site
- A word about monitors
- do we know our target audience?
- The Tool: Dreamweaver
- interface overview: Insert bar, document bar, panel groups, code and design pane, rearranging panels.
- creating new html files
- opening html files
- saving html files
- previewing a web page
- setting up our workflow with our browsers - best practices and pitfalls to watch out for.
- helpful learning tools: The reference panel
- Defining a web site
- What is "defining" a web site and why do we want to do it
- Organizing the file and folders (web site housekeeping)
- Creating Templates!!!
- what is a template?
- what is an editable region?
- create the template, save it, apply it, update it (very nice feature here!)
- Working with web site content:
- Working with text and list
- controlling the very basics: Paragraph spacing vs line break spacing, (don't get caught here!)
- Tables: creating, Selecting, editing
- Images: adding images, editing images (not really in dreamweaver), web image graphic formats
- gif (logos)
- jpeg (photo style content)
- PNG (the newer format, will replace gif eventually)
- Work time, individual or group web site challenges / solutions