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My Knowledge Of Dreamweaver And Flash //
Planning a Site from the ground up.
Understanding the Dreamweaver Interface
Setting the workspace view.
The document and and browser toolbars.
The insert panel.
The document window.
The properties inspector.
Functional areas in Dreamweaver.
Live view options.
Adobe Browser LAB.
The common insert category
Panel groups.
Layouts and Alignments
Modifying page backgrounds.
Setting page margins.
Setting text colours and link colours.
Using colours on the web.
Working with Text
Text and embedding typefaces.
Inserting paragraph tags and break tags.
Text formatting with the properties inspector.
Controlling text appearance.
Aligning text.
Using ordered and unordered lists.
Setting indents.
Setting bold and italic styles.
Understanding font size in web pages.
Working with hyperlinks.
Working With Images
Image file formats for the internet.
Inserting images into a web page.
Inserting rollover images.
Web standards and the images.
Images and copyright issues.
Gathering image and copyright information.
Inserting Flash video.
Adobe Bridge.
Using bridge to organise and insert assets.
Using bridge with Photoshop integration.
Using Fireworks roundtripping.
Controlling Page Layout
Web Standards.
Page layout principals
Preparing for CSS-Based Layouts.
Understanding cascading style sheets.
CSS syntax.
CSS Selector types.
Document declaration types.
The natural flow of the document.
The CSS Box model.
CSS Positioning Techniques
Static positioning.
Absolute positioning.
Relative positioning.
Fixed Positioning.
Reviewing the principles of CSS layout.
Creating Page Divisions
Inserting a DIV.
Creating columns with absolute positioning.
Using floats to create columns.
Clearing floats.
Exporting to an external style sheet.
Advanced Page Design With Cascading Style Sheets.
Modifying pages with Cascading Style Sheets.
Structuring page content with div tags.
Creating the external style sheet.
Designing the basic layout with css.
Creating and positioning page containers.
Creating and applying custom classes.
Creating descendant selectors.
Styling lists of links.
Using Dreamweaver CS5 CSS management features.
Organising CSS rules.
Using the new CSS starter pages.
Dreamweaver CS5's troubleshooting tools.
Internet explorer conditional comments. (IECC)
Dreamweaver's Automated Design Tools
Exploring the assets panel.
Creating and using library elements.
Working with templates.
Creating new templates.
Applying and updating templates.
Designing with JavaScript behaviors.
Exploring Javascript behaviors.
Exploring the JavaScript behaviors interface.
Working with Dreamweaver extensions and plug-ins.
Installing and managing extensions.
W3C Standards.
Communicating Through Tables.
Adding tabular data to a page.
Understanding tables.
Inserting tables and structured data.
Designing a table with CSS.
Exploring interactive technologies.
Designing a web page with forms.
Creating a contact form.
Working with menus, radio buttons and checkboxes.
FormMail.
PHP.
Active Server Pages (ASP)
ColdFusion
Applying an action to a form.
Styling forms with CSS.
Working with plug-ins.
Inserting a Spry Tabbed panel.
Publishing And Managing Site Files.
Choosing a web hosting service.
Types of web hosting.
Managing file transfers with the files panel (FTP).
Working as part of a team.
Understanding of the design workflow.
Defining the goals of a site.
Determining site structure.
Performing site tests.
Visual design.
Performing site tests with Dreamweaver.
The Adobe Flash Professional CS5 course involves the following;
Drawing and painting.
Working with text
Using layers.
Symbols and Instances.
Bitmaps.
Frame by Frame animation.
Tweening.
Buttons and hotspots.
An Introduction to Action Script 3.0.
Sound and video files.
Identifying purpose and audience needs for rich media content.
Identifying rich media content relevant to the website purpose and appropriate to the target audience.