Setting up a Site and Adding Content in Dreamweaver CS5

Overview/Description
Target Audience
Prerequisites
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Overview/Description
Adobe Dreamweaver CS5 is a versatile web site development application, suitable for personal and enterprise development environments. This course explores the concepts of creating a new site in Dreamweaver CS5, including configuring site properties and application preferences, adding content, and manipulating text. A look at the major interface elements of Dreamweaver CS5, including features such as Live View and workspaces, is also provided.

Target Audience
The audience is expected to be a range of in-training or established IT professionals needing to learn how to use Dreamweaver without any experience of any version of Dreamweaver. Students can be expected to have basic computing and word-processing skills, familiarity with web terminology and Internet navigation, familiarity with HTML, and experience working in a Microsoft Windows or Apple Macintosh environment.

Prerequisites
None

Expected Duration (hours)
2.5

Lesson Objectives

Setting up a Site and Adding Content in Dreamweaver CS5

recognize how to set the workspace layout

recognize how to use Adobe Bridge together with Dreamweaver CS5

customize the Dreamweaver CS5 workspace

match the Dreamweaver CS5 interface elements with their functions

recognize how to create a root folder

recognize how to set up a local site

recognize how to use the Files panel

define a local site in a given scenario

customize the workspace in Dreamweaver CS5

access Adobe Bridge from within Dreamweaver CS5

create a new web page

recognize how to set web page preferences

recognize how to change page properties

add a tracing image to a web page

import Microsoft Word or Excel content

recognize how to clean up Word HTML

create a web page and add content to it

modify text styles using the Page Properties dialog box

recognize how to inspect style sheet rules

modify the layout of a page

add special characters and dates to a document

create a list

format and organize a web page in a given scenario

Course Number:
at_dcsp_a01_it_enus