Setting up a Site and Adding Content in Dreamweaver CS4

Overview/Description

Adobe Dreamweaver CS4 is a versatile web site development application, suitable for personal and enterprise development environments. This course explores the concepts of creating a new site in Dreamweaver CS4, including configuring site properties and application preferences, adding content, and manipulating text. A look at the major interface elements of Dreamweaver CS4, including new features such as Live View and improved workspaces, is also provided.

Target Audience

The audience is expected to be a range of in-training or established IT professionals needing to learn how to use Dreamweaver without any experience of any version of Dreamweaver. Students can be expected to have basic computing and word-processing skills, familiarity with web terminology and Internet navigation, familiarity with HTML, and experience working in a Microsoft Windows or Apple Macintosh environment.

Prerequisites

None

Expected Duration (hours)
2.5

Lesson Objectives

Setting up a Site and Adding Content in Dreamweaver CS4

• Recognize how to set the workspace layout
• Recognize how to use Adobe Bridge together with Dreamweaver CS4
• Customize the Dreamweaver CS4 workspace
• Match the Dreamweaver CS4 interface elements with their functions
• Recognize how to create a root folder
• Recognize how to set up a local site
• Recognize how to use the Files panel
• Define a local site in a given scenario
• Customize the workspace in Dreamweaver CS4
• Access Adobe Bridge from within Dreamweaver CS4
• Create a new web page
• Identify the features of Spry
• Recognize how to set web page preferences
• Recognize how to change page properties
• Add a tracing image to a web page
• Import Microsoft Word or Excel content
• Recognize how to clean up Word HTML
• Create a web page and add content to it
• Modify text styles using the Page properties dialog box
• Recognize how to inspect style sheet rules
• Modify the layout of a page
• Add special characters and dates to a document
• Create a list
• Format and organize a web page in a given scenario