Course : Developing with Dreamweaver

Practical course - 4d - 28h00 - Ref. HTX
Price : 2570 CHF E.T.

Developing with Dreamweaver




DreamWeaver is the most widely used Web page design studio on the market. As you are introduced to this studio's functions, you will also learn to use the markup language HTML and its new version XHTML, based on XML technologies, as well as graphic formatting using CSS style sheets, and the issues concerning Web site accessibility will be discussed. You will use the product to integrate client-side technologies (JavaScript, Java applets, Flash, plug-ins, ActiveX components), to integrate server-side technologies (CGI, ASP, PHP) and to handle database interactions. At the end of this course, you will be able to create your own Web sites and you will have found out all DreamWeaver's special features.


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Practical course in person or remote class
Available in English on request

Ref. HTX
  4d - 28h00
2570 CHF E.T.




DreamWeaver is the most widely used Web page design studio on the market. As you are introduced to this studio's functions, you will also learn to use the markup language HTML and its new version XHTML, based on XML technologies, as well as graphic formatting using CSS style sheets, and the issues concerning Web site accessibility will be discussed. You will use the product to integrate client-side technologies (JavaScript, Java applets, Flash, plug-ins, ActiveX components), to integrate server-side technologies (CGI, ASP, PHP) and to handle database interactions. At the end of this course, you will be able to create your own Web sites and you will have found out all DreamWeaver's special features.



Intended audience
This hands-on course is aimed at all IT staff who wish to master the techniques enabling them to develop a Web site.

Prerequisites
A base Knowledges about Web'architecture.

Course schedule

1
Web review

  • Web site protocols: HTTP, FTP, NNTP, SMTP, POP3.
  • How a Web site operates.
  • Intranet, Internet, Extranet, B2B and B2C sites. Impact on the technologies.
  • Hosting platform, browsers, Firewall.
  • HTML language, role and structure of URLs.
  • Parameter-setting the server and client workstation.
Hands-on work
Parameter-setting the browser and the Web server, creating an alias.

2
The DreamWeaver Web design studio

  • Overview of the Macromedia range, interaction with Fireworks.
  • The test environment.
  • Getting to grips with DreamWeaver. Parameter setting for the workspace, the application interface.
  • Creating a Web site: compatibility, technical choices.
  • HTML graphic design: images and sensitive areas, links, anchors, metatags, formatting graphics, tables, paragraphs, exte
  • A description of the HTML language and the latest version, XHTML.
  • Versions XHTML 1.0, XHTML mobile.
  • Publishing the site and maintaining the code (code cleaning).
  • Working in a team and the "Design Notes".
Hands-on work
Creating a space for a Web site project. Learning about the graphics editor and the graphics construction of pages. Developing XHTML pages.

3
Page composition using Web design studios

  • Page models. The external import of pages.
  • CSS-1 and CSS-2 style sheets. Importing, sharing, building, using.
  • Creating forms (text areas, checkbox, combobox, radio, upload), the methods GET and POST and related actions.
  • The page's metatags and referencing.
  • Building frames, properties, modifications, interactions between frames.
Hands-on work
Creating CSSs, tables, and frames. Importing pages. Creating forms and server calls.

4
Design and accessibility

  • Constructing the graphics chart. Importing a graphics chart in the project.
  • "Usability" rules: composition rules to be respected.
  • Creating a page model with Fireworks.
  • Accessibility and taking WAC/W3C priority 2 into account.
Hands-on work
XHTML compatibility and accessibility test. Creating a model using Fireworks. Technically reproducing a supplied graphics chart.

5
Client technologies

  • The JavaScript language: implementing behaviours (events). Actions (menu, click, layer displacement, re-routing, context
  • Graphic animation: implementing scenarios, rollover.
  • Integrating graphics components: Flash, Applet, ActiveX, Plug-ins.
  • Using the tag inspector.
Hands-on work
Creating checks in JavaScript, integrating multiple multi-media components.

6
Overview of server technologies

  • CGIs and the languages supported by DreamWeaver.
  • Graphics programming studio.
  • Pre-recorded functions. Enriching the studio with components from the Macromedia Exchange area.
  • Interfacing a database with the product. The databases supported.
  • Consulting data. Creating a dynamic SQL request. Displaying results in a table. Creating pages.
Hands-on work
Configuring the server for CGIs. Creating a dynamic page and interrogating a database.


Publication date : 03/14/2024


Dates and locations

Last places available
Guaranteed date, in person or remotely
Guaranteed session
From 26 to 29 May 2026
FR
Remote class
Registration
From 26 to 29 May 2026
EN
Remote class
Registration
From 13 to 16 October 2026
FR
Remote class
Registration
From 13 to 16 October 2026
EN
Remote class
Registration
From 8 to 11 December 2026
FR
Remote class
Registration
From 8 to 11 December 2026
EN
Remote class
Registration

REMOTE CLASS
2026 : 26 May, 26 May, 13 Oct., 13 Oct., 8 Dec., 8 Dec.