Introduction to Macromedia Dreamweaver 8 Training

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"The future is here. It's just not evenly distributed yet."
William Gibson

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Dreamweaver 8 H•O•T
Course Outline:

• Chapter 1: Introduction to Dreamweaver 8
  • What is Dreamweaver 8  P. 3
  • HTML vs. XHTML  P. 3
  • Roundtrip XHTML  P. 3
  • What Does XHTML Do?  P. 5
  • Related Technologies: CSS, XML, HTML, JavaScript  P. 8 - 11
• Chapter 2: Dreamweaver 8 Interface
  • Setting Up Your Workspace  P. 13
  • A Quick Tour of the Interface  P. 14 - 27
  • Preferences  P. 28
  • Preset Window Sizes  P. 30
  • Defining Default Browsers  P. 31
  • Shortcut Keys   P. 32 - 33
• Chapter 3: Site Control in Dreamweaver 8
  • Defining a Site  P. 36
  • Understanding Relative and Absolute Links  P. 40
  • Managing Files and Folders  P. 43
  • Understanding Path Structure  P. 45
  • Root and Document Relative Links  P. 47
  • Creating a Site Map  P. 49
  • Creating a Site from Scratch  P. 51
• Chapter 4: Creating Basic Web Pages with Dreamweaver 8
  • Creating and Saving a New Document  P. 55
  • How Default Documents Work  P. 59
  • Setting Page Titles  P. 60
  • Inserting Images  P. 62
  • Inserting Text  P. 67
  • Aligning Text and Images  P. 71
  • Creating Links with Images and Text  P. 74
  • Inserting META Tags  P. 77
• Chapter 5: Linking with Dreamweaver 8
  • Linking with Point to File  P. 81
  • Linking to New Source Files  P. 85
  • Creating Email Links  P. 90
  • Creating Named Anchors  P. 94
  • Linking to Files  P. 102
• Chapter 6: Using Cascading Style Sheets in Dreamweaver 8 p. 108
  • CSS Specifications  p. 109
  • The Cascade  p. 109
  • Anatomy of a Style Sheet  p.  110
  • The Page Properties Dialog Box  p. 116
  • Types of Style Sheets  p. 118
  • Exporting and Linking External CSS Files  p. 119
  • The CSS Styles Panel  p. 125
  • Type Selectors  p. 129
  • ID Selectors  p. 139
  • Class Selectors  p. 148
  • Creating CSS Rollovers with Pseudo-Classes  p. 155
• Chapter 7: Typography in Dreamweaver 8
  • Leaving the FONT Tag Behind  p. 161
  • Valid XHTML Typographic Elements  p. 163
  • Formatting Text with the Property Inspector  p. 165
  • Units of Measurement  p. 173
  • Managing White Space with Margins, Padding and Line Height  p. 175
  • Using Font Lists  p. 182
  • Aligning Text  p. 185
• Chapter 8: Creating Tables with Dreamweaver 8
  • Creating a Table  p. 198
  • Adding Content to a Table  p. 201
  • Changing the Border of a Table with XHTML  p. 207
  • Changing the Border of a Table with CSS  p. 213
  • Adding Color to Tables  p. 218
  • Aligning Table Content  p. 226
  • Sorting a Table  p. 232
  • Setting Table Widths  p. 235
  • Creating Rounded-Corner Tables  p. 242
• Chapter 11: Image Rollovers with Dreamweaver 8
  • Rollover Rules  p. 287
  • Creating Disjointed Rollovers  p. 294
  • Creating Navigation Bars with Multiple Rollover States  p. 299
  • Creating Flash Buttons  p. 308-9
• Chapter 20: Getting Your Site Online with Dreamweaver 8
  • Free Web Hosting with Tripod  p. 473
  • Setting FTP Connection Information  p. 477
  • Putting Files on the Web Server  p. 480
  • Running Site Reports  p. 484