Adobe Dreamweaver CC Introduction Masterclass + ACP Exam 5 Days - Manchester
Key Course Details:
Level:
Introduction to Advanced
Duration:
5
Days - 10am to 5pm
Price:
£995 + vat
Go from being a novice to mastering the advanced tasks in the leading web-design program. Join us as we show you how to take charge and become a Dreamweaver power user. Produce professional-standard pages and make your websites stand out. Plus, pass the ACP exam and get qualified!
We will guide you on everything from getting started with a simple web page and controlling the Dreamweaver environment all the way up to using complex styling, applying re-usable templates, and remote file synchronisation. With our help, you will become confident in using the program's advanced features to produce professional-grade websites. You will end the course by testing your skills in the ACP exam.
Go from being a novice to mastering the advanced tasks in the leading web-design program. Join us as we show you how to take charge and become a Dreamweaver power user. Produce professional-standard pages and make your websites stand out. Plus, pass the ACP exam and get qualified!
We will guide you on everything from getting started with a simple web page and controlling the Dreamweaver environment all the way up to using complex styling, applying re-usable templates, and remote file synchronisation. With our help, you will become confident in using the program's advanced features to produce professional-grade websites. You will end the course by testing your skills in the ACP exam.
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Dreamweaver Masterclass + ACP Exam 5 Days
Course Details
This 5-day Masterclass course will give you a comprehensive understanding of the tools and features in Adobe Dreamweaver CC, allowing those new to web design to gain the hands-on practice needed to create and maintain professional websites. We will begin by covering the basics of creating and styling documents for the web, and then move on to give you the advanced skills that will allow you to confidently design and manage your own websites.
Upon successful completion of this course, you will be able to:
- Navigate the Dreamweaver environment
- Create a fully featured website
- Control the structure of a document
- Add video and graphics to a document
- Insert lists, jump menus, and special characters
- Write and apply advanced CSS classes and rules
- Edit graphics through integration with Photoshop
- Position elements absolutely or relatively
- Build site navigation
- Import tabular data
- Collect and validate data using online forms
- Maintain and synchronise existing sites
- Use libraries, templates, and widgets
The final day of the course is dedicated to the Adobe Certified Professional (ACP) Dreamweaver exam, including trying a mock exam, reviewing answers, and then taking the real exam. The ACP exam represents an official qualification, and you will be provided with an instant pass or fail result. We are confident that you will join everyone we have already helped to pass the exam and collect an official certificate of Adobe Certified Professional status.
As well as giving you the opportunity to take the ACP exam, this course is the perfect preparation if you plan to take the Adobe Certified Expert (ACE) exam.
Our goal is for you to understand and apply both the basic and the advanced principles of web design to create and manage professional-grade websites.
Course Target Audience and delegate prerequisites:
This course is intended for those who are new to web design and development and who want to develop skills to build attractive, accessible websites to a professional standard.
You will need basic PC or Mac skills, including a solid understanding of a computer's operating system (Windows or Mac OS). You will also need to know how to launch a program, create and save files, and copy files from CDs and other media. -
Full Course Outline
The following is a general outline. The range of topics covered during your training is dependent upon student level, time available and preferences of your course booking.
Introducing the Course- Understanding the course
- Reviewing the course objectives and prerequisites
- Reviewing the course format
- Outlining the course content
- Understanding static page architecture
- Introducing Dreamweaver CC
- HTML Basics
- Learning the interface
- Defining a local site
- Creating a website
- Adding content
- Controlling document structure
- Making lists
- Adding horizontal rules
- Adding special characters
- CSS Layouts
- CSS Management
- CSS Advisor
- Browser Compatibility
- Spry Data
- Spry Widgets
- Spry Effects
- Photoshop CC Integration
- Adobe Device Central
- Adobe Bridge CC
- Formatting text
- Introducing cascading style sheets
- Creating styles
- Exporting CSS rule definitions
- Creating class styles
- Attaching external style sheets
- Creating advanced styles
- Creating a new external style sheet
- Displaying styles
- Understanding cascading order and inheritance of styles
- Using graphics on web pages
- Placing graphics on the page
- Modifying image properties
- Editing images
- Doing roundtrip editing with Fireworks/Photoshop CC
- Customising the Insert bar
- Adding Flash content
- Adding Flash Video
Navigating Your Site- Understanding site navigation
- Linking to files in your site
- Linking to sites
- Linking to named anchors
- Adding e-mail links
- Linking from images
- Creating a jump menu
- Understanding page layout
- Using layers for layout
- Adding CSS to layers
- Using absolute and relative positioning
- Designing with DIVs
- Designing navigation links with CSS
- Importing tabular data
- Using table layout view
- Using site library items
- Creating site templates
- Defining editable regions
- Using templates
- Applying a template to an existing page
- Modifying templates
- Understanding forms
- Processing a form
- Setting focus in a form
- Validating a form
- Testing your site
- Maintaining your files and folders
- Connecting to a remote site
- Synchronising files
- Dreamweaver's new features
- CSS layouts
- CSS management
- CSS Advisor
- Browser compatibility
- Photoshop integration
- Take Practice exam
- Work through exam preparation sheet
- Any other questions?
- Dreamweaver ACP Exam
- Instant Pass or Fail Result
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Location Details
This course is provided at the XChange Training Manchester training centre based at:
Piccadilly House
49 Piccadilly
Manchester
M1 2APPiccadilly House is located in the heart of Manchester directly next to the Piccadilly Gardens transport interchange with excellent bus and tram connections and is easily accessed from Piccadilly train Station (5 mins). Victoria station is also close by (around 10 mins).
Daily course times run between 10am and 4:30pm with an hour break for lunch and both mid morning and mid-afternoon refreshment breaks. We recommend arrival at 9.45am for registration on the first day of the course.
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Dreamweaver CC ACP Masterclass - Upcoming Manchester Course Dates
27 Jan - 31 Jan £995 + vat 28 Apr - 02 May £995 + vat 14 Jul - 18 Jul £995 + vat -
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Jimmy Bickerton, Milk Design, Dreamweaver for HTML Emails Introduction
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