Dreamweaver
4 Level 2
Prerequisites:
Dreamweaver Level 1
Upon
successful completion of this course, students will be able to:
- Create
dynamic user-interface elements, including simple rollovers
and complex navigation bars.
- Work
with libraries to manage repeating site elements.
Define keyword, description, and other meta tags in order
to make your site visible to automatic search engine spiders.
- Create
CSS styles to streamline text formatting within a page, and
create external style sheets to allow formatting information
to be used throughout a site.
- Create
layers using a number of techniques, and manage the size,
position, stacking order, and visibility of layers.
- Combine
layers with behaviors to provide additional visual feedback
for a viewer navigating a site.
- Work
with the History palette to simplify repetitive tasks both
within a single document and with other documents in a site.
- Target
page content to specific browsers and versions.
- Learn
about several different features included with Dreamweaver
4.0 to assist you in working with code.
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Course
Content
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 “Click� State to a Navigation
Bar
Testing Rollovers in a Browser
Using the Insert Navigation Bar Tool
Build a Navigation Bar Using the Insert Navigation Bar Tool
Flash Buttons and Text
Adding Flash Buttons and Text to a page.
Libraries
Creating a Library
Adding a Library Item
Placing a Library Item
Modifying Library Items within the Library Panel
Modifying a Library Item
Defining Head Elements and Managing Keyboard Shortcuts
Defining Head Elements
Examining Meta Tags
Defining a Keyword Tag
Defining a Description Tag
Editing Meta Tags
Editing the Description Meta Tag
Orientation to Keyboard Shortcuts
Using the Keyboard Shortcut Editor
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
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
Layer Style Sheets
Defining a Layer with Style Sheets
Layers and Behaviors
Creating a Pop-Up Message
T Controlling Layer Visibility Using Behaviors
Inserting Rich Media Objects
Inserting a Flash Movie into a Layer
The History Palette
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
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
Coding Tools
Coding Tools
