Adobe Dreamweaver & Adobe Fireworks Training - 3 Days

Platform: Windows PC and Apple Mac

Courseware: Comprehensive training manual provided per person

Prerequisites: Basic knowledge of Windows or Apple Mac operating system

Software version: Training available for Adobe versions CS5.5, CS5, CS4, CS3, 8, MX 2004, MX

Course Overview:
This 3 day training course is designed to give you a solid grounding of Adobe Fireworks and Adobe Dreamweaver. You will first learn how to create, edit and manipulate a variety of professional web ready graphics with Fireworks before moving on to Adobe Dreamweaver where you will learn how to plan, create,
edit and maintain professional looking web pages. You will also gain a thorough understanding of how the two applications integrate for seamless web design.

Dreamweaver and Fireworks 3 Day Training Outline

Training Course Introduction - Dreamweaver and Fireworks Overview

About Adobe Fireworks and Adobe Dreamweaver
How to plan a successful web project
Understanding compliant web design
Working with graphic types for the web

Day 1 - Working with Fireworks

Image Concepts

About graphics on the web
Planning graphic content
Download times

The Fireworks Interface

Setting preferences
Using the menu bar/panels
Working with image/object modes
Creating a new document
Importing images/graphics
Magnifying
Using the info palette

Working with Selections

Using the selection tools
Selection options
Feathering
Editing images

Drawing and Editing

Working with the drawing tool
Creating shapes/lines
Working with the colour tools
Using the colour table
Using the colour mixer
Working with swatches

Working with Vectors

Using the modify bar
Rotating/scaling vectors
Grouping/splitting
Arrange and align
Merging vectors
Masking with vectors

Working with Text and Styles

Inserting text
Using the text palette
Typography and formatting
Using styles and effects
Saving styles
Putting text on a path

Using Layers

Working with the layers palette
Creating/deleting layers
Changing layer order
Maintaining layers
Sharing layers

Day 2 Morning Session - Fireworks Continued

Animating Graphics

About animation
Using tweening
Working with symbols/instances
Using the frames panel
Frame x frame animating
Frame timing

Working with Slices

Setting up links
Inserting slices
Naming and exporting slices

Creating Buttons and Rollovers

About JavaScript and behaviours
Setting up a rollover
Simple rollovers

Optimization

Using the optimization panel
Optimizing simple graphics/Quality images
GIF vs JPEG – when and why
GIF’s and the colour palette
GIF colour options
JPEG’s and quality settings

Day 2 Afternoon Session - Working with Dreamweaver

Concepts and Preparation

About Dreamweaver and Web Design
Understanding HTML
Planning a web site
Screen design considerations
Creating efficient web pages
Web browsers
Download times
Images, animations and PDF’s
CSS content

Web Site Structure

Setting up a local site
Using the site window
Setting preferences
Site management
Creating a new file

The Assets Panel

About the assets panel
Adding and deleting objects
Adding objects to a page
Organising assets

Working with Text

Adding text
Importing text
Text formatting
Basic HTML styles
Using CSS to style text
External style sheets

Day 3 - Dreamweaver Continued

HTML

Understanding HTML
How browsers and search engines read your pages
Viewing HTML
Editing in HTML code view
Effective tips and techniques for HTML

Working with Graphics

Placing graphics on a page
Using image formats: GIF, JPEG, PNG
Applying and changing attributes
Positioning text to graphics
Working with the colour palettes
Using safe colours
Creating alternate text

Working with Hyperlinks

Internal and external links
E-mail links
Working with anchors

Basic Interactivity

Creating rollover buttons/images
Creating a navigation bar

Working with Tables

Creating a table
Table attributes
Absolute and relative measurements
Nested tables
Applying contents and colour

Page Layout

Planning your page
Using tables for layout
Using layout mode
Working with layers
Manipulating layers
Tables versus layers

The Upload Process

Checking links and preparing the site
Adding keywords and descriptions
Setting server details
Uploading
Synchronising/editing posted files

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