Course length: 1 day
Prerequisites: Dreamweaver Introduction or equivalent knowledge.
Overview: You will work with advanced web site creation features available in Dreamweaver, including libraries and behaviors. In addition, you will utilize many of the new features available within the HTML standard including style sheets and layers.

Course content

Lesson 1: Rollovers and Navigation Bars

• Rollovers
• Defining a Site
• Creating Simple Rollovers
• Adding Image States to a Navigation Bar Using Behaviors
• Building a Navigation Bar using Tables
• Creating the Initial Rollovers
• Adding a Navigation Bar
• Testing Rollovers in a Browser
• Using the Insert Navigation Bar Tool
• Build a Navigation Bar Using the Insert Navigation Bar Tool
• Flash Buttons and Text
• Adding Flash Buttons and Text to a page.

Lesson 2: Libraries

• Creating a Library
• Adding a Library Item
• Placing a Library Item
• Modifying Library Items within the Library Panel
• Modifying a Library Item

Lesson 3: Defining Head Elements and Managing Keyboard Shortcuts

• Defining Head Elements
• Examining Meta Tags
• Defining a Keyword Tag
• Defining a Description Tag
• Editing Meta Tags
• Editing the Description Meta Tag
• Orientation to Keyboard Shortcuts
• Using the Keyboard Shortcut Editor

Lesson 4: Style Sheets

• Defining Style Sheets
• Altering an Existing HTML Tag
• Creating Classes
• Applying Styles to Format Text
• Using the CSS Selector
• Applying Style Sheets to Multiple Pages
• Exporting Style Sheets
• Linking Style Sheets
• Applying Linked Styles to Text
• Redefining Style Sheets

Lesson 5: Layers

• Creating Layers
• Inserting a Layer
• Creating a Layer with the Draw Layer Button
• Using the Layers palette
• Naming Layers
• Setting Layer Visibility
• Setting the Stacking Order
• Layer Style Sheets
• Defining a Layer with Style Sheets
• Layers and Behaviors
• Creating a Pop-Up Message
• Controlling Layer Visibility Using Behaviors
• Inserting Rich Media Objects
  
• Inserting a Flash Movie into a Layer

Lesson 6: The History Palette

• The History Palette
• Using the History Palette
• Recording Steps
• Recording Steps for Easy Reuse
• Saving Steps to the Commands Menu
• Saving Steps as Sharable Commands

Lesson 7: Browser Targeting

• Browser Compatibility
• Testing Browser Compatibility
• Converting Pages to Earlier Versions
• Browser Checking
• Using a Behavior to Check the Viewer's Browser

Lesson 8: Coding Tools

• Coding Tools
  

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