Sunday, November 6, 2011

Dreamweaver Training, What You Can Expect

By Marion Mccann


Tutorials are available for free on certain website for Dreamweaver training. The basic tutorials are free. Once you finish with the basics, more specialized tutorials follow. To be able to view the videos or use the training for the specialized sections, you have to subscribe to the website where it is offered. Also required at this point is a fee. Videos can be viewed normally or with closed captioning and exercise files are available for download.

In general, the tutorials are broken up in the following manner.

Getting started is where you will find information on coding and scripting for Dreamweaver. The videos provide much more detail about the varieties of coding and scripts that are available, why they are important and what their function is.

It is important to know how to navigate through the Dreamweaver user interface in order to get started. Setting up your workspace and a welcome screen appear when the programs first starts. Since Windows and Mac's are different instructions for usage on these two platforms is provided. User interface also contains information on the property inspector, document window, insert bar, document toolbar, saving layouts, panel groups, developing a default browser and panels.

Site control is next. Within this section learning file and folder management is taught. You will also begin to understand the path structure, how to add to your site and creating a sitemap.

To be able to create your new blank site there are several basic issues to learn. Developing and saving new documents is the first item. It is followed by learning about doctype, how to add images and text, aligning images and text in the document and adding meta tags.

To learn the basics of creating links, look for the section titled Linking. In this section you will be taught how to create with point to file, external and email links, named anchors, linking to files and image maps.

Training sections about CSS essentials provides a brief introduction to CSS. It then goes on to discuss the anatomy of CSS style sheets, CSS and page properties and how to move internal to external file sheets. Also covered in this section are style panels and what is known as selectors.

Formatting the text within a sheet is discussed in typography.

Creating and formatting tables to your page is taught.

Then are the instructions for Layout. This section talks about layout tools, tracing images, how to add AP div tags and working with layout tables.

Designing pages to work with devices such as printers is important.

There are at least 10 more areas covered in the tutorial the ones mentioned here are only the beginning. The benefit is that the tutorials provide enough information that a beginner can follow it from the basics to the actual publishing. Dreamweaver tutorials are pricey and can take some time to work through.




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