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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.