Advanced Adobe Dreamweaver CS3 Training DVD

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Introduction

• Welcome
• Using the exercise files

1. Dreamweaver Workflow Techniques

• Reviewing the Coding toolbar
• Customizing the Coding toolbar
• Taking advantage of Code Hinting
• Using snippets and shortcuts
• Using the Quick Tag Editor
• Using Find and Replace
• Regular expressions
• Using Bridge with Dreamweaver CS3
• Round-trip editing with Photoshop CS3
• Leveraging image variables in Photoshop CS3
• Integrating external variables into your workflow

2. Working with Style Sheets in Dreamweaver

• Understanding the CSS Styles panel
• Understanding the Cascade
• Understanding Inheritance
• Understanding Specificity
• Managing CSS styles
• Using Design-Time style sheets

3. CSS Layout Tutorials

• Using the new CSS template pages
• Understanding DIV tag structure and layout
• Understanding the CSS box model
• Using absolute and relative positioning
• Understanding floating elements
• Clearing floats
• Using floats to control page layout
• Building structure and assigning IDs
• Applying basic styling to structured content
• Positioning container elements
• Enhancing layouts with background graphics
• Creating faux columns with background graphics
• Creating rounded corners with background graphics
• Building navigation with CSS
• Using Dreamweaver's Browser Check feature

4. Working with Forms in Dreamweaver

• Creating properly structured forms
• Creating accessible forms
• Using CSS to lay out form structure
• Creating vertical columns for form elements
• Adding user feedback
• Applying advanced styling to forms
• Client-side form validation
• Validating forms with the Spry Validation tools

5. Building AJAX Pages with the Spry Framework

• Understanding the Spry framework
• Defining a data source for use in Spry
• Creating a Spry table
• Using the Spry widgets
• Connecting various data sets
• Understanding Spry widget structures
• Applying custom styles to Spry widgets
• Applying additional custom styles to Spry widgets
• Controlling Spry widget behaviors with JavaScript
• Controlling Spry widget animations with JavaScript
• Creating effects with Spry behaviors
• Hand-coding Spry

6. Extending Templates

• Creating a base template
• Creating editable attributes
• Creating a new page from a template
• Applying a template to an existing page
• Creating nested templates
• Using repeating regions
• Creating editable and non-editable optional regions
• Using template parameters
• Using template expressions
• Using conditional template expressions

7. Working with XML and XSL

• Examining XML structure
• Creating an XML document
• Using the CDATA structure
• Creating an XSLT file
• Binding data from an XML to an XSLT document
• Inserting repeating regions into an XSL document
• Creating a client-side XSL transformation
• Styling a remote RSS feed
• Creating a server-side XSL transformation
• Writing XSL expressions

8. Building Dynamic Content Tutorials

• Overview of building dynamic websites
• Installing PHP, MySQL, and Apache on Mac
• Installing PHP, MySQL, and Apache on Windows
• Creating a MySQL database
• Defining a testing server and database bindings
• Creating a database recordset
• Adding dynamic content to the page
• Creating repeating regions of dynamic content
• Filtering database records
• Using the Live Preview
• Passing URL parameters
• Dynamically generating links

9. Extending Dreamweaver

• Understanding behaviors
• Installing additional behaviors
• Planning to create a custom behavior
• Examining existing behaviors
• Building a behavior function
• Creating an Action file
• Enabling behavior functions
• Initializing the user interface for a behavior
• Loading behaviors in Dreamweaver
• Testing and debugging behaviors

10. Publishing and Collaborative Tools

• Running reports
• Checking and validating links
• Using cloaking
• Using Check In/Check Out
• Using Design Notes

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