Dreamweaver MX 2004 Basic Study Guide

0-619-20395-1 © 2004 Publish date: April 19, 2004 188 pages

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Course ID: dreamweaver-mx2004-basic-sg

If you are ready to begin creating, design, and working with web pages using Dreamweaver, choose the Dreamweaver MX 2004 Basic study guide from our line of computer training books. This course will give you the basic skills you need in order to get started. By following this self-directed course, you will be up and running, creating web sites right away.

The Dreamweaver MX 2004 Basic courseware is designed to give you basic skills using Dreamweaver for creating, designing, and updating your web pages and entire web sites. You can easily work through the course in as little as a day of Dreamweaver studying. But you also have the option to work at a slower pace. You can take as much or as little time as you need to learn the basics of this program.

Each unit of the Dreamweaver MX 2004 Basic courseware presents information and activities designed to teach you fundamental concepts. Hands-on exercises allow you to do the steps and get a feel for working with web pages.

The portable book format lets you learn high-tech concepts the old-fashioned way, by studying a book filled with information. Many students prefer the look and feel of a real book in their hands.

Course Objectives

By taking this course you will learn basic Web and HTML concepts, how to navigate and customize Dreamweaver MX 2004's environment, and how to work with Code Inspector, Tag Inspector, and Quick Tag Editor. You will also learn about planning and defining a Web site, creating, saving, and importing text in a document, and modifying page properties.

You will work with headings and paragraphs, lists and special characters, importing Microsoft Office documents, and checking for spelling errors. The courseware also teaches you about inserting tables, adding text, inserting and deleting rows and columns, creating table headers, aligning text, modifying a table's properties, and creating table summaries.

Course Contents

Unit 1 introduces Dreamweaver MX 2004

• Introduction to the Internet and HTML
• The Dreamweaver MX 2004 environment
• Code assistants

Unit 2 discusses getting started

• Creating Web sites
• Creating documents
• Page properties

Unit 3 covers page content

• Document structure
• Importing Microsoft Office documents
• Check spelling

Unit 4 goes over tables

• Data tables
• Table formatting
• Table accessibility

Unit 5 covers Images

• Images
• Background images

Unit 6 goes over site navigation

• Links
• Named anchors
• Image maps
• Navigation bars

Unit 7 covers style sheets

• Cascading Style Sheets
• External style sheets
• Link styles

Unit 8 goes over publishing

• Web site publishing