Dreamweaver 8 is the web layout and publishing part of the Adobe suite of Web Design applications. It is the professional choice as the No. 1 web site production tool. It is designed with user friendly layout and publishing tools making it an ideal application for both experienced and novice web developers.

On this course you will learn all about web design from organising your web hosting to producing and publishing great looking web pages. Learn about web page structure, layout, adding text and images, creating links and publishing using FTP.

Introducing the Course

• About the course
• Introducing web pages

Getting Started

• Introducing Dreamweaver 8
• Launching Dreamweaver 8
• Defining a local site
• Creating a website
• Setting document properties
• Saving your page
• Previewing your pages

Adding Content to a Site

• Adding content
• Controlling document structure
• Making lists
• Adding basic page layout
• Adding special characters

Formatting Text

• Web page design principles
• Introducing cascading style sheets
• Formatting text
• Creating internal styles
• Creating custom styles
• Exporting internal styles
• Editing external styles
• Linking external stylesheets

Working with Graphics

• Graphics on web pages
• Placing graphics on the page
• Modifying image properties

Navigating Your Site

• Understanding site navigation
• Linking to files in your site
• Linking to named anchors
• Adding e-mail links
• Image maps
• Using image objects

Designing Page Layout

• Understanding page layout
• Structuring content with tables
• Using table layout
• Designing with layers
• Converting tables to layers

Testing, Deployment and Maintenance

• Testing your site
• File maintenance
• Connecting to a remote site
• Using find and replace

Dreamweaver 8 is also delivered as an Evening Course. It takes place on Tuesday and Thursday evenings from 6pm to 8pm at the Irish Times Training centre in Dublin city centre.