LVS Associates Online Registration

Dreamweaver CS3-CS4 Level II
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$30.00USD

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The instructor is launching a new Dreamweaver CS3 and Dreamweaver CS4 course series. This series is not only designed for the hobbyist, but will provide valuable tools and resources to those aspiring to be professional web designers. The three session series will provide students with all of the knowledge and skills necessary to pass the Adobe certification exam Web Communication using Adobe® Dreamweaver®.

Course Description

This is a follow along course to be taken after taking the Dreamweaver CS3/4 Intro course. More information coming soon.

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This is a 6 week, self-paced, online course. If you need additional help understanding the material presented, you can communicate with the instructor and fellow classmates. The instructor will monitor and track your progress throughout the class. LVS Online offers many wonderful learning tools to help you get the most out of your online course, including an online portfolio service that manages all your course registrations, certificate of completion option, a class discussion board to interact with your instructor and fellow classmates, free hosting account, and a student upload area.

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If you would like to receive more information regarding this course, click on the "Contact Us" link in the Information section and we'll try to answer any of your questions within the day.

Course Requirements

Dreamweaver CS3 or CS4.

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Although the lesson plan screenshots are from a PC, Macintosh users will benefit from the lessons.

Versions of IE 6.0 or greater AND Firefox 1.5 or greater. All assignments will be checked in both of these browsers.

A working knowledge of your computer is essential. LVS offers a free Windows class if needed.

Plan to devote approximately 3-5 hours each week to complete their course work. Homework must be reviewed by the instructor in order to earn a certificate. Some weeks there will be bonus assignments to provide additional learning opportunities. These bonus assignments are not required to complete the certificate.

Students need a web hosting account. If you don't have one, students have the option of using the free web hosting or a student hosting account made available for LVS students. Details are provided in the classroom.

Students should have working knowledge of their operating system and must understand directories and paths:
Free Windows course and Directory Structure Tutorials are available.

Zip files may be necessary to complete the exercises provided each week. WinZip, PKZip, Windows Compression or similar program is required to unzip these files.
Free Winzip and Windows Compression Tutorials are available.

All lessons are in PDF format. Adobe Acrobat Reader is required to view/print the lessons.

Course Prerequisites

Class Level - Intermediate
Dreamweaver CS3/4 Intro, Build Your Website I and Level II or strong XHTML and CSS knowledge are required.

All the exercises in this class will use CSS and work will have to validate both for XHTML and CSS. Please do not register for this class if you have not met these prerequisites.

Course Syllabus

Lesson 1 Design tips Intermediate css with Dreamweaver Styling css links Image maps	Lesson 2 Snippets Extensions Rollovers plus! Tracing Image
Lesson 3 Web forms	Lesson 4 Templates
Lesson 5 Integration with other CS3 programs Flash buttons Flash text Library	Lesson 6 Advanced Layers Web 2.0 Search engine optimization Accessibility issues

Course Excerpt

LESSON 1

Welcome to the first week of the Intermediate Dreamweaver CS3/4 course. In this course we are going to focus on some of the time saving tools in Dreamweaver that help ensure an attractive, functional and consistent web site. Whereas in the first course we tried a lot of techniques and each week our web site looked very different from the previous week, this time we will be creating a complete web site as part of our assignments. This "real world" exercise will allow you to really utilize some of Dreamweaver's capabilities in not only editing but managing a site. We will be doing our assignments with an eye to both form and function as we dig deeper into Dreamweaver's resources.

We will start off with a quick review on design elements before we begin working with CSS. We will look at using Dreamweaver to stylize our web site with its excellent css tools. We finish this week's lesson with image maps and an introduction to the integration with Adobe Illustrator.

Design tips

Design tips? I thought that this was a software class!

This class will be all about learning about Dreamweaver, I promise. Learning the tools is only part of the process. Imagine learning all you can about the tools in your home tool box and then trying to build a tree house without a plan or understanding the dynamics to keep that tree house intact up in the tree instead of wood scraps on your back lawn. The same is true with websites. If you want to attract visitors to your website, give them a pleasurable experience and keep them coming back, you must have an efficient and good looking design. Of course, I could offer an entire 6 week course on design and still not have the time to teach you all there is to know. This week will be just a review on some important design concepts. Throughout the course, I will be offering additional design tips and considerations to Dreamweaver's tools.

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Please note: Lessons provide step-by-step instructions with detailed screen captures.

Course Goals

At the end of this course you will know how to work within the Dreamweaver environment to set up a document correctly validate a document for X/HTML and CSS. You will also know how to make a css and a table-based layout, create a page from a tracing image, use image maps, extensions, behaviors, and templates to create well organized, functional and attractive websites. In addition you will experience some of the benefits of the new Creative Suite integration.

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