Dreamweaver CS5 Training Materials
by Kelly McCormack

1. Introduction to Dreamweaver
   1. Why Dreamweaver?
   2. The Interface
   3. Preferences
   4. Defining a Local Site
   5. File System Best Practices
   6. Preview in Browser
2. Creating a Web Page with HTML Structure
   1. HTML Tags and Basic Formatting
   2. Importing Content
3. Navigation
   1. Link Paths
   2. Creating Links
   3. Linking to Named Anchors
   4. Linking to Email Addresses
   5. Image Maps
4. Working with Graphics and Flash
   1. Overview of Graphic Usage Techniques
   2. Colors in HTML and CSS
   3. Image Formats for the Web
   4. Background Graphics
   5. Placing Graphics on the Page, Assets Panel
   6. Properties of Graphics, ALT text
   7. Image Editing in Dreamweaver
   8. About Flash
   9. Inserting Flash Media
   10. Properties of Flash Media
   11. Inserting Flash Video
5. Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)
   1. Properties panel
   2. CSS Overview
   3. The CSS Styles Panel
   4. Types of Syle Rules: Tag, .Class, #ID, Compound
   5. Useful CSS Properties
   6. External Style Sheets
   7. Specificity and Best Practices
6. Page Layout
   1. Layout Overview
   2. Tracing Image
   3. Premade CSS Layouts
   4. Basics: CSS Based Layout with DIV tags
   5. Walk-through: Creating a CSS Based Layout
   6. Advanced CSS Positioning: Static, Relative, Absolute, Fixed
   7. Scrolling Div tag content
   8. IECC Internet Explorer Conditional Comments
   9. Iframes
7. Spry, Behaviors, Javascript
   1. About Spry and AJAX
   2. Spry (PopUp) Menu Bar
   3. Spry Elements
   4. Spry Effects
   5. About DHTML, Behaviors, and Javascript
   6. Rollovers, Swap Image
   7. Set Text of Container
   8. Show/Hide Elements
   9. Jump Menu
   10. Gallery Extensions
8. Using Libraries, Templates, and Includes
   1. Library Items
   2. Snippets
   3. Templates
   4. Advanced Template Usage
   5. Server-Side Includes
   6. PHP Includes
9. Forms and Server-side Development
   1. Security
   2. Example uses
   3. HTML tags
   4. CSS styling
10. Testing, Maintenance, SEO
    1. Find and Replace
    2. Clean Up XHTML and Apply Source Formatting
    3. Testing and Maintenance
    4. Favicons
    5. HTML Search Engine Optimization
11. Publishing
    1. Remote Site Definition Settings
    2. Connecting to a Remote Site and Uploading/Synchronizing
    3. Contribute
12. Links and Resources

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