ATG - Advanced Dreamweaver 4.0 Workshop

Pre-requisitions

System requirements

• You need to login to the WFU network (see the little black box) to get to the class files
• Please install Dreamweaver 4.0 if you are using 3.x, 2.x or 1.x

Intro topics - things you should be familiar with from previous classes

1. Floating palettes
2. Setting up site
3. Insert text/hyperlink/images
4. Page properties
5. Table (Ch. 7 p. 183-202)
6. Publish
7. Rollover images (p. 276-277)
8. Image map
9. Flash text

- skip Frames (Ch. 8 p. 203-220)
Note : Frames or Tables? see Macromedia support file http://www.macromedia.com/support/dreamweaver/layout/frames_or_tables/

Copy class materials and pre-class preparations - see handout for details

• start menu, choose Run ...
• type
  \\acad1\physics\pub\DW4aClass-a21m
  or
  \\acad1\physics\pub\DW4aClass-a20m
  depends on your ThinkPad model (390e users should use the a20m files)
• copy the 2 folders inside to your C:\userdata
   
• Installation of extensions (.mxp files) (p. 93-94) from dw4a-files folder you just copied
• define new site for you class files

Outline

1. Usability
   - 404 error (p.506-508) internal link and external link problems sample file
   - Browser capability sample file
   - Bad tags sample file
   
2. Accessibility
   - Section 508 sample file
   - Size and Speed sample file
3. Presentation
   - Layout view (Ch. 6, p. 421-424, p. 167-182)
   - Layer to table (optional)
   
4. Consistency
   - Reusable Content - Library (p.396-403) sample file
5. Interactivity
   - CourseBuilder sample file
6. Special Feature (optional)
   - Clean up Word HTML sample file fix the 87 lines file down to 15 lines
   - Web Photo Album 2.0 (without Fireworks 4.0 - no thumbnails)
   - Site map
   - Learning Site
   

Refereneces

Macromedia Dreamweaver Product page http://www.macromedia.com/software/dreamweaver/

Macromedia Dreamweaver Support page http://www.macromedia.com/support/dreamweaver/

Macrimedia Exchange for Dreamweaver (need to registration to get a Macromedia ID before you can download extensions) http://www.macromedia.com/exchange/dreamweaver/

Macromedia Education Resrouce Center http://www.macromedia.com/resources/education/

Macromedia Dreaweaver Accessibility page http://www.macromedia.com/macromedia/accessibility/features/dreamweaver.html

Macromedia Dreamweaver 4.01 release note http://www.macromedia.com/support/dreamweaver/releasenotes/4/releasenotes_4.htm

Macromedia Dreamweaver documentation errata http://www.macromedia.com/support/dreamweaver/documentation/using_dw4_errata/

Macromedia Dreamweaver online forum news://forums.macromedia.com/macromedia.dreamweaver

more URLs on Dreamweaver reviews, usability, tutorials

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