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

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CSS

  1. 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
  2. The Box Model (pg 220)
    • Setting Box Properties
    • Setting Block Properties
    • Setting Background Properties
    • Setting Border Properties

Page Structure

  1. Good Coding Practices

Positioning, Layers, and Multimedia

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

Templates, Libraries, and Snippets

  1. Templates
  2. Libraries
    • Site Libraries (pg 411-416)
    • Creating a Library Item
    • Inserting and Editing Library Items
    • Code Snippets (pg 419)