Dreamweaver Overview

• Introducing Dreamweaver
• Start screen
• Dreamweaver Workspaces
• Working with panels
• The Properties Inspector
• Page properties
• Toolbars
• Creating basic pages
• Moving around pages

Setting up a New Site

• Planning a site
• Creating a new site
• Setting up your homepage
• Defining a site in Dreamweaver

Text and Images

• Adding text to your pages
• Formating text using CSS
• Adding images
• Images on the web - overview
• Inserting images
• Image properties and the ALT tag
• Aligning images in text
• Creating rollover images

Using CSS

• CSS overview
• Setting up a style sheet
• Editing a style sheet
• Styling text in Dreamweaver
• CSS layouts - an intro
• Creating div tags

• Positioning with CSS
• Floating items

Linking

• Linking pages
• Linking to documents (PDF, Word, Quicktime, Flash)
• Linking to anchors
• Creating an email link
• Creating a link to another website

Spry Overview

• Spry effects
• Spry widgets
• Editing Spry widgets

Forms

• Setting up a feedback form
• How to get a form to reply securely to your email using PHP

SEO (Search Engine Optimisation) Basics

• How to make sure Google finds your site!
• Getting your site into Google
• SEO good practice overview
• META Tags - which are the important ones
• How to optimise your website for Google
• What Google looks for in your web pages

Getting Your Site Online

• Hosting and domain names - your questions answered
• Testing your pages
• Uploading using FTP
• Updating your site through Dreamweaver