Unit 1: Introducing Macromedia Dreamweaver MX 2004: Website Development

• About the course
• Course objectives
• Course prerequisites
• Static page architecture

Unit 2: Getting Started

• Introduction to Dreamweaver MX 2004
• Creating a local site
• Creating a new HTML page
• Using development views
• Previewing pages
• Setting document properties

Unit 3: Adding Content to a Site

• Adding content
• Importing text files
• Importing Microsoft Word and Excel content
• Controlling document structure
• Creating headings, paragraphs and lists
• Adding special characters

Unit 4: Formatting Text

• Formatting text on the web
• Changing the font properties
• Introducing Cascading Style Sheets
• Fonts and class styles
• Creating styles
• Creating tag selectors
• Creating advanced styles
• Exporting CSS style definitions
• Attaching external style sheets
• Creating a new style sheet

Unit 5: Working with Graphics

• Graphics on web pages
• Placing graphics on the page
• Accessibility setting
• Modifying image properties
• Image editing in Dreamweaver
• Roundtrip editing with Fireworks
• Optimizing an image
• Adding Flash movies

Unit 6: Navigating Your Site

• Hypertext links
• Linking to files in your site
• Linking to sites
• Linking to named anchors
• Adding e-mail links
• Linking from images
• Linking from an image map
• Creating a navigation bar
• Creating a jump menu

Unit 7: Designing Page Layout

• Understanding page layout
• Structuring page layout with tables
• Importing tabular data
• Using table layout view
• Using layers for layout
• Adding the Show-Hide layers behavior
• Converting tables to layers
• Converting layers to tables

Unit 8: Using Libraries and Templates

• Creating library items
• Placing library items on a page
• Creating site templates
• Applying a template to an existing page

Unit 9: Creating Forms

• Creating a form
• Form processing
• Setting focus in a form

Unit 10: Testing, Maintenance, and Uploading

• Checking accessibility, links and browser compatibility
• Maintaining files
• Using the Integrated File Browser
• Connecting to a remote site
• Cloaking folders and files
• Uploading files
• Synchronizing files