See how a Course Works: Intro to Online Learning
Description
Looking for an online Dreamweaver course that fits your schedule and budget? Look no further! This course is 100% online so you can learn at your own pace, from the comfort of your own home.
Adobe Dreamweaver is the preferred HTML editor of professional Web designers—and not just because it has a cool name.
Dreamweaver integrates a host of design tools in one easy-to-use application. Without any advanced HTML and CSS knowledge, you can design sophisticated sites, creating advanced layouts by using Cascading Style Sheets, typography, colors, tables, and more.
This intensive 6-lesson online Dreamweaver course guides you through Adobe's leading-edge Web editor, taking you from absolute beginner to intermediate level. You'll be weaving dreams on the Web before you know it!
Learn the skills you need to get started making professonal looking Web sites with the online Dreamweaver course from Gatlin International.
Outline
LESSON 1 Introduction to Dreamweaver
Lesson One of our online Dreamweaver course kicks off with an introduction to Dreamweaver's flexible toolkit. You'll learn to customize, create, and save an HTML page, how to define a site and make it talk to your Web server, and how to manage files. You'll explore how HTML and CSS code is generated in Dreamweaver's WYSIWYG interface and learn how to use the Properties Inspector. In the exercise, you'll create a "favorite links" page, hooking up Web links, formatting text, adding images, and more.
LESSON 2 Cascading Style Sheets
Ready to create pages with some real style? Lesson Two introduces you to a key Web technology: Cascading Style Sheets (CSS). With CSS you can refine the look of text and other features on your Web pages, training you to make global site design changes in a snap. You'll learn how to create internal and external style sheets using Dreamweaver's CSS Styles panel that will make your styles look great. In the exercise, it's off to camp-you'll design a Web site for an arts and crafts camp using CSS for text and background formatting.
LESSON 3 CSS Starter Pages
In Web design, it's all about staying on top of current technology and trends. Lesson Three introduces you to CSS positioningÑa technology that allows you to create flexible and efficient layouts instead of relying on restrictive HTML tables. You'll see how easy and fun it is to design a layout and build it with CSS, and you'll create a complete Web site using CSS starter pages in Exercise Three.
LESSON 4 Data Tables
Lesson Four explores how to use tables as a layout and organization tool. You'll look at a "best practice" table design on the Web, then find out how easy Dreamweaver makes it. You'll learn how to create tables, add content, adjust and nest tables, and explore design options using table borders, background colors, and patterns. In the training exercise, you'll use tables to design an e-commerce home page including a fully-functional, list-based navigation bar.
LESSON 5 CSS Positioning
Now that you're familiar with Dreamweaver's essential tools, you're ready to really design. Lesson Five focuses on absolutely positioning elements and your layout using CSS. You'll also explore fixed and static positioning, then using these techniques to create boxes with rounded corners using CSS. In the exercise, you'll create a Web site based on a detailed client brief using your new CSS positioning skills.
Additional Info
- Languages
- English
- Course Length
- 60.00 hours
- Duration of Access
Enrolled students have access to the class for six months. During this period, questions or assignments may be submitted at any time to the instructor. Each course lesson requires an average of 10 hours of study time.
- Instructor
Piper Nilsson is a graphic designer and information architect. In her four-year career for a leading Web design agency, she blueprinted sites for such global clients as MetLife, Pepsi, ETS, and Citibank. Her current projects include building an e-learning prototype for children with learning disabilities and teaching technology in New York City public schools. Piper holds an Associate's degree in Graphic Design from the Pratt Institute
- Prerequisites/Audience
The introduction to Dreamweaver course is designed for adult learners interested in building skills and portfolio for a design career. To take the course, students simply require a computer (PC or Mac), an Internet connection (56 Kbps modem or faster), and any required software. For courses with software requirements, computers must meet software manufacturers' system requirements.
- Requirements/Materials Included
To take this course you'll need Adobe Dreamweaver CS4 or CS5, and an account with a Web hosting service. Free services are available. Check with your Web host to make sure it supports Dreamweaver's FTP protocol. Adobe Photoshop or Fireworks or equivalent digital imaging program is recommended but not required.
- Certification
3 CEU’s
Sessions College is accredited by the Distance Education and Training Council (DETC). Certificate programs are accredited by the Middle States Commission on Secondary Schools.
