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Advanced Macromedia Dreamweaver CS3: Behaviors, Reusing Code and Site Management

Dreamweaver MX offers many advanced tools that allow you to manage your entire site. You will learn how to use Templates, Server-side Includes, Library Items, Snippets and other ways to reuse code. You will master all of the "Behaviors" Dreamweaver offers that insert client-side JavaScript on your site. Learn how to utilize the site management tools and actually upload to a real web server

Course Outline

• Introduction to Dreamweaver
• The Dreamweaver interface
• Goals of this course
• Introduction to Site Examples
• Create a Dreamweaver "Site"
• EXERCISE: Build a Dreamweaver "Site"
• Creating Reusable Components
• Server-Side Includes
• Drawbacks to using SSIs
• When to use an SSI
• Creating an SSI
• Inserting an SSI
• Editing and Updating an SSI
• Exercise 2: Create a "featured pet of the week" section with a Server-Side Include
• Library Items
• Drawbacks to using Library Items
• When to use an Library Items
• Creating an Library Item
• Inserting an Library Item
• Editing and Updating an Library Item
• Exercise 3: Add an Updatable Footer Using a Library Item
• Snippets
• How to use Snippets
• Saving Snippets
• Exercise 4: Creating a List of Related Links Using Snippets
• Fireworks HTML
• Insert Fireworks HTML
• Exercise 5: Adding Navigation Links with Fireworks HTML
• Cascading Style Sheet
• Attach a Cascading Style Sheet
• Exercise 6: Attaching a CSS document / Cumulative Exercise
• Templates
• Creating Templates
• Using a template to create additional pages
• Exercise 7: Create Multiple Pages Using a Template
• Dreamweaver Behaviors
• What is JavaScript?
• Events vs. Actions
• Behavior: Changing Status Bar Text
• Behavior: Popup Message / Alert Box
• Exercise 8: Status Bar / Pop-up message Behaviors
• Layers
• Behavior: Layers: Dynamic Visibility
• Exercise 9: Dynamic Visibility
• Behavior: Layers: "Dragable" Content
• Exercise 10: Creating a game with Dragable Content
• Exercise 11: Using the Timeline
• Behavior: Jump Menu
• Behavior: Jump Menu
• Adding a little JavaScript
• Exercise 12: Jump Menu
• Behavior: Open Browser Window
• Behavior: Open Browser Window
• Adding a little JavaScript
• Exercise 13: Open Browser Window
• Behavior: Pop-up Menu
• Behavior: Pop-up Menu
• Exercise 14: Add Pop-up Menu
• Behavior: Insert Flash Movie
• Behavior: Insert Flash Movie
• Exercise 15: Replace the titlebar.gif with a Flash movie
• Appendix A: Form Validation Behavior
• Form Validation Behavior
• Exercise 16: Form Validation
• Appendix B: Site Management Tools
• Search and Replace
• Built in FTP client
• Synchronize files
• File check-in/check-out
• Design Notes
• Link Checker
• Reports
• Appendix C: Extending Dreamweaver
• Dreamweaver Exchange
• Exercise 17: Install an Extension

See also

Adobe Dreamweaver Training Courses

• Introduction to Dreamweaver CS4 Training (2 days)
• Advanced Dreamweaver CS4 Training (2 days)
• Building Data-driven Websites with Dreamweaver CS4 (using ColdFusion, PHP or ASP) Training (2 days)
• Using Adobe Dreamweaver Developer Toolbox with Dreamweaver CS4 (using ColdFusion, PHP or ASP) (2 days)

• Introduction to Dreamweaver CS3 (2 days)
• Advanced Dreamweaver CS3 (2 days)
• Building Data-driven Websites with Dreamweaver CS3 (using ColdFusion, PHP, ASP.NET or ASP) (2 days)
• Using Adobe Dreamweaver Developer Toolbox with Dreamweaver CS3 (using ColdFusion, PHP, ASP.NET or ASP) (2 days)

• Introduction to Dreamweaver 8 (2 days)
• Advanced Dreamweaver 8 (2 days)
• Building Data-driven Websites with Dreamweaver 8 (using ColdFusion, PHP, ASP.NET or ASP) (2 days)