Tables, Accessibility, and Standards in Dreamweaver CS4

Overview/Description

When designing a web site, it's important that your content is engaging, but it's also crucial that it is structured in an intuitive and accessible manner. Creating a site layout using tables is one method of ensuring a consistent and easy to navigate web site. This course explores how to structure content using tables, and examines creating and manipulating tables and other layout elements, and working with tabular data. Building an accessible web site that complies with international standards, and applying basic design principles to a Dreamweaver CS4 site are also covered.

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)
1.5

Lesson Objectives

Tables, Accessibility, and Standards in Dreamweaver CS4

• Create a table in Dreamweaver CS4
• Modify a table's properties
• Add information to a table
• Import tabular data
• Export tabular data
• Format a table
• Build and modify a table in Dreamweaver CS4
• Set accessibility preferences
• Check target browser compatibility
• Change the default encoding for a site
• Modify accessibility settings for a site
• Apply design standards to a web site