The Scope Of Dreamweaver Tutorials.
Free basic tutorials can be found on the web for Dreamweaver training. These tutorials are free until you come to the more advanced sections like site control. After that, to use the tutorials, you must pay a fee and subscribe to the website. Some of the websites offer exercise files that you can download. For the videos, closed captioning can be selected.
As with all tutorials, it is divided into sections to make it easier for the user.
The first stop for Dreamweaver is the Getting started section. Coding and scripting information is here. Detailied information is provided by video about the numerous styles and purposes of the different coding and scripts.
User interface for Dreamweaver is the next lesson. How to setup your workspace is the first choice offered. The majority of programs have a welcome screen that appears when it is first loaded. For the differences in the interface between Windows and Mac, this is the section to look in. This topic also discusses the purpose for the property inspector, insert bar, document window and toolbar, panel groups and panels, how to save the layouts and creating a default browser.
Within the section of Site control file and folder management is discussed. Understanding the path structure, developing a sitemap and how to add to your site is the goal.
Creating a new blank site, creating and saving new documents, about doctype, adding images and text, the alignment of images and text along with inserting meta tags can be found in the sections titled Document Basics.
Information on creating a variety of links is also taught. Links such as point to file, named anchor, email links, linking files, external links, and linking and image maps are located here.
Training sections about CSS essentials provides a brief introduction to CSS. It then goes on to discuss the anatomy of CSS style sheets, CSS and page properties and how to move internal to external file sheets. Also covered in this section are style panels and what is known as selectors.
To learn how to format your text is mentioned in section about typography.
Adding tables and formatting them is next on the list.
A tutorial for tracing images, layout tools, inserting AP div tags and dealing with tables in a layout is available.
Designing pages to work with devices such as printers is important.
There are at least 10 more areas covered in the tutorial the ones mentioned here are only the beginning. The benefit is that the tutorials provide enough information that a beginner can follow it from the basics to the actual publishing. Dreamweaver tutorials are pricey and can take some time to work through.
Author is a developer and trainer with Macresource Computer Training, a UK IT training company offering Adobe Dreamweaver Classes at their central London training centre.
Posted: October 20th, 2009 under Software.
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