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COMPUTER
INSTITUTE
Tuesday, June 09, 2026
 

Creating Web Pages using Macromedia Dreamweaver
Course Length:(2 days or 14 hours)
This course shows the students how to design user-friendly home pages using Macromedia Dreamweaver. The course starts with the basics of Web Design including Formatting of the text, Definition of Bulleted and Numbered Lists. A part of this course is devoted to advanced features such as working with forms, adding Pointers, Hot Links, Table, Images and Style Sheets.
Course Topics:

LESSON I    DREAMWEAVER BASICS

  • Exploring the Tools, Working with Panels, Developing Your Site Structure
  • Defining a Local Site, Specifying Preview Browsers, Creating and Saving a New Page
  • Giving Your Page a Title, Specifying a Background Color, Using a Background Graphic
  • Specifying the Default Font Color, Placing Text on a Page, Importing Text
  • Creating a Line Break, Centering and Indenting Text, Making Lists
  • Making Definition Lists, Nesting Lists, Character Formatting
  • Repeating a Command, Changing the Font, Changing the Font Size
  • Changing the Font Color, Saving Colors As Favorites, Creating HTML Styles
  • Applying HTML Style, Adding Special Characters
  • Adding Horizontal Rules, Adding a Date Automatically
  • Adding Flash Text, Modifying Flash Text

LESSON 2 WORKING WITH GRAPHIC 

  • Placing Graphics on the Page, Resizing and Refreshing Graphics
  • Positioning Graphics, Adding a Border Around an Image
  •  Assigning Names and <Alt> Tags to Images, Inserting an Image from the Assets Panel
  • Managing Images with the Favorites List, Wrapping Text Around Images
  • Adjusting the Space Around an Image, Inserting an Image Placeholder
  •  Replacing an Image Placeholder, Aligning an Image Relative to a Single Line of Text
  • Adding Flash Buttons, Modifying Flash Buttons
  • Adding Flash Animations, Inserting an Accessible Image
  • On Your Own: Solar Events

 

LESSON 3 CREATING LINKS

  •   Specifying Link Colors, Inserting Email Links

  • Creating Hypertext Links, Creating Graphic Links

  • Targeting Links, Inserting and Linking to Named Anchors

  • Creating Image Maps

LESSON 4 ELEMENTS OF PAGE DESIGN              

  • Creating a Table in Layout View, Modifying Table Layout

  • Cell Formatting, Layout Width and Spacer Images

  • Creating a Table in Standard View, Importing Data from Spreadsheets

  • Copying and Pasting Table Cells, Selecting a Table

  • Selecting and Modifying Table Elements

  • Sorting a Table, Modifying a Table, Exporting a Table

  • Using Images in Tables, Nesting Tables, Outlining a Table

  • Designing For Computer Screens, Using Window Size to Check Layout

  • Using a Tracing Image, Inserting Accessible Tables

  • On Your Own: Exhibit Based Teaching Partnerships (EBTP)

 LESSON 5 ADDING USER INTERACTIVITY       

  • Inserting a Rollover Image, Adding Behaviors
  • Swapping Multiple Images with One Event
  • Adding Behaviors to Image Maps, Editing Actions and Events
  • Creating a Status-Bar Message, Checking the Browser
  • Opening a New Browser Window, Creating a Pop-up Menu
  • On Your Own: At Home Astronomy

LESSON 6 MANAGING YOUR SITE        

  • Using the Site Window, Integrated File Explorer
  • Adding New Folders and Files to a Site, Creating a Site Map
  • Viewing a Subset of the Entire Site
  • Links in Site Map View, Modifying Pages from the Site Window
  • Connecting to a Remote Site, Uploading Files
  • Cloaking, Checking In and Checking Out
  • Using Design Notes, On Your Own: Life Along the Faultline

 

LESSON 7 ACCESSIBILITY  AND TESTING

  • Testing for Accessibility, Checking Browser Compatibility
  • Checking Links in Your Site, Checking for Orphaned Files
  • Generating Reports for a Site, On Your Own: S.E Black & White Gallery

LESSON 8 USING LIBRARIES   

  • Creating a Library Item, Placing a Library Item on a Page
  • Recreating a Library Item, Modifying a Library Item
  • Updating Library References, Creating a Library Item Containing Behaviors
  • Modifying a Library Item Containing Behaviors
  • On Your Own: Origins-The Heart of the Matter

LESSON 9 USING TEMPLATES 

  • Creating Templates, Adding Editable Areas to a Template
  • Removing Editable Regions, Creating Optional Content
  • Inserting Repeating Regions, Building Pages Based on a Template
  • Controlling Optional Content, Adding Repeating Entries
  • Modifying A Template, Creating Editable Tag Attributes
  • Modifying an Editable Tag Attribute, Creating Nested Templates

LESSON 10 CREATING FRAMES   

  • Creating a Frameset, Saving a Frameset
  • Resizing Frames in a Frameset, Specifying Frame Properties
  • Creating and Editing Frames Content, Creating Other Content Documents
  • Adding a Navigation Bar, Opening an Existing Page in a Frame
  • Checking Frame Content, Controlling Frame Content with Links
  • Creating Noframes Content
  • On Your Own: South of Market Child Care, Inc.

LESSON 11 CREATING FORMS

  • Building Your Form, Adding Single-Line Text Fields
  • Adding Multi-Line Text Fields, Adding Check Boxes
  • Adding Radio Buttons, Adding List/Menu Items
  • Adding Buttons, Validating Forms
  • Testing Your Forms, Creating Jump Menus
  • On Your Own: The Women's Building

LESSON 12 EDITING THE CODE  

  • Switching Document Views, Editing HTML in Code View
  • Adjusting New Window Placement, Meta Tags and Comments
  • Using the Tag Selector, Editing Code with Quick Tags
  • Making Use of Code Hints, Using Snippets
  • Using Clean Up HTML, Working With Microsoft Word HTML
  • Printing from Code View
  • On Your Own: Robotics: Sensing, Thinking, Acting
 LESSON 13 USING STYLE SHEETS
  • Creating External Style Sheets, Adding a Style to an Existing External Style Sheet
  • Editing an Existing Style, Creating Custom Styles
  • Creating CSS Selector Styles for Links, Creating CSS Selector Styles for Tag Combinations
  • Linking to an Existing External Style Sheet
  • Creating Internal Styles, Converting Internal Styles to External Styles
  • Converting CSS to HTML, On Your Own: Project Discover  
 LESSON 14 USING FIND AND REPLACE
  • Searching Your Document, Removing HTML Tags

  • Using Find and Replace to Apply a Custom Style

  • Using Find and Replace to Add External Style Sheets

  • Saving and Reusing Your Search Criteria

  • Searching and Replacing with Regular Expressions

  • Finding Variations in a Name

  • On Your Own: Revealing Bodies  

LESSON 15 CREATING LAYERS   
  • Creating Layers, Naming Layers, Modifying Layers

  • Changing the Stacking Order of Layers, Nesting and Unnesting Layers

  • Changing Layer Visibility, Setting Grid and Ruler Options

  • Using the Drag Layer Behavior, Converting Layers to Tables

  • Using the Netscape Resize Layer Fix  

LESSON 16 ANIMATING WITH TIMELINES         
  • Animating Objects, Using Keyframes
  • Positioning an Object, Changing an Animation with Keyframes
  • Recording the Path of a Layer, Changing Image Properties
  • Creating the Animation Layers, Adjusting the Keyframes
  • Changing the Visibility of Layers, Adding Behaviors to the Timeline
  • Making the Timeline Play, On Your Own: Interactive Navigation
LESSON 17 EXTENDING DREAMWEAVER   
  • Installing Extensions, Using the M Superscript 2 Extension
  • Using the Advanced Random Images Extension, Using the fiXMovie Extension
  • Using the Breadcrumbs Extension, Creating a Simple Objec
  • Advanced Customization, On Your Own: Ideum Media Portfolio



 
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