Pitman Training Dreamweaver CS4

Course Title: Pitman Training Dreamweaver CS4 Certificate (PTDWCT)

Awarding Body: Pitman Training
Pitman Training is the largest independent training network in Ireland offering local solutions to businesses and individuals alike. With Pitman Training you have the best choice of training options:
· Career Solutions with its renowned National Diploma Programme
· Fully flexible IT and Office Skills training – attend when you like
· Classroom training courses tailored for all levels
· Seminar courses to develop personal skills
· Online training and Home Study options
· IT Technical learning tracks with full mentoring support.

Intended Audience: Those with some computer competency and familiarity with the internet who want to learn how to use Dreamweaver CS4 to create websites

Entry Requirements: Competence with Windows Explorer, and familiarity with the Internet and browsers.

Benefits:
·       Know how to use Dreamweaver CS4 in order to create your own websites to recognised standards
·       The flexibility and value of a self-study course designed to enable you to work at your own pace
·       A personalised workbook to use as a reference guide on completion of the course
·       The opportunity to gain the widely recognised Pitman Training Certificate
·       The opportunity to gain an Adobe Certified Associate qualification

Exemptions: None

Course Details:
Unit One: – Including: Fundamentals of the World Wide Web, What is HTML? Exploring Web Pages with Web Browsers, HTML Tags, Attributes and Styles, WYSIWIG, Viewing Source Codes

Unit Two – Including: Planning a Site from the Ground Up, Identify Target Audience, Planning Site Content, Paths and Site Structure, Defining a Website in Dreamweaver, Adding Folders and Files

Unit Three – Including: The Dreamweaver Interface, Setting the Workspace View, The Functional Areas of Dreamweaver CS4, Split and Design Views, The Insert Panel, The Document Window, The Properties Inspector

Unit Four – Including: Layouts and Alignments, Modifying Page Backgrounds, Setting Page Margins, Setting Text and Link Colours, Colour Considerations in Web Design, Previewing Pages in a Browser

Unit Five – Including: Understanding Text and Typefaces, Text Formatting with the Properties Inspector, Understanding Font Styles, Using Lists and Indents, Creating Hyperlinks

Unit Six – Including: Working with Images, Image File Formats for the Internet, Inserting Images into a Web Page, Creating a Navigation Bar with Images, Inserting Rollover Images, Images and Copyright Issues, Inserting Flash Video, Using Adobe Bridge CS4

Unit Seven – Including: Page Layout Principles, Cascading Style Sheets, Document Type Declaration, CSS Positioning, Creating Page Divisions, Creating Columns, Exporting to External Style Sheet

Unit Eight – Including: Advanced Page Design with CSS, Creating Custom Classes, Creating Descendant Selectors, Conditional Comments for Internet Explorer, Adding a Print Style Sheet

Unit Nine – Including: Automated Design Tools, Creating and Using Library Items, Creating a New Template, Designing with Behaviors, Dreamweaver Extensions

Unit Ten – Including: Tables, Forms and Media, Processing Forms, Working with Menus, Radio Buttons and Checkboxes, Working with Plug-Ins, Inserting a Spry Tabbed Panel

Unit Eleven – Including: Publishing and Managing Site Files, Choosing a Web-Hosting Service, Managing File Transfers with the Site Panel

Appendix: Working as Part of a Team.
Preparing for the Adobe Certified Associate Exam

Registration: All Year.

Duration: 120 hours flexi study.

Cost: Contact us for more details

Further Study: Flash CS4