Dreamweaver III « Jeffrey Isham

Site Libraries, CSS, and Multimedia

This course will cover the advanced functionality of Dreamweaver and its ability to integrate seamlessly with other web technologies.

MCTC Continuing Education
Prerequisite: Dreamweaver I & II or equivalent.
Text: Dreamweaver CS4 Visual Quickstart Guide, Peachpit Press, 2009
ISBN: 0-321-57352-8

Understanding CSS
- Understand the Cascade Order (pg 204)
- External and Internal Style Sheets
- Inline Styles
- Using the Styles Panel
- Using the New CSS Style Dialog
- Applying a Class Selector Style
- Detaching Styles
- Attaching an External Style Sheet
- Creating Contextual Selectors
- Creating Psuedo-Class Selectors
The Box Model (pg 220)
- Setting Box Properties
- Setting Block Properties
- Setting Background Properties
- Setting Border Properties

Good Coding Practices
- What Beautiful HTML Code Looks Like
- Separate Presentation, Content, and Application
- Why to use CSS for Layout
- Dreamweaver Video Tutorial – Using CSS
- Dreamweaver Video Tutorial – Print Style Sheets
- Adding Comments
- Validating Markup
- Adding Descriptions and Keywords (pg 85-86)

Layers and Positioning
- How to use CSS Positioning (pg 221)
- Relative vs Absolute
- Z-index
Adding Multimedia
- Flash
- Quicktime
- Youtube

Templates
- Templates (pg 401-410)
- Create a Template – Adobe Video Tutorial
- Use a Template – Adobe Video Tutorial
- Editable, Repeating, and Optional Regions (pg 403)
- Modifying a Template (pg 408-409)
Libraries
- Site Libraries (pg 411-416)
- Creating a Library Item
- Inserting and Editing Library Items
- Code Snippets (pg 419)