Dreamweaver: The Basics

Dreamweaver can help you create web pages and manage web sites. In this training, we'll add text, images, and style to web pages. In addition, we'll explore how to use templates to make controlling and updating page content a snap.

This training is intended for people with a basic understanding of HTML and CSS, but little or no experience using Dreamweaver.

Learning Objectives

Become familiar with the Dreamweaver interface
Add text and image content
Re-use content from external text files
Work with CSS styles
Insert links
Implement templates to reduce website maintenance time
Upload a completed site to a web server

Prerequisite Skills

Understand the general interface of Adobe programs
Structure text and image content for the web using HTML5
Style a web page using Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)
Understand the box model for basic layout

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Important note for participants not affiliated with IU

This course contains training material only.
Participants who are not affiliated with Indiana University will need your own access to installed and licensed software, according to the training topic. This will allow you to follow along and participate in the hands-on exercises.
If you do not have access to the needed software, you can still enroll in the online course and read the course content.

More information about this course

This online course is free to everyone and available for enrollment through IU Expand.

This course consists of a series of short lessons, examples, demonstrations, practice quizzes, and hands-on exercises.

To complete the course content, you will need:

a web browser and internet access to use the course material on IU Expand.
a copy of the software relevant to the training installed on your computer.

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Learn about the web site created in this title and view a finished version of the site.

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Learn about workspaces and different ways documents can be viewed.

See the full content for Learning about Dreamweaver Interface.

Learn about document management, folder structure, and differences between local and remote sites. Also learn how to define a local site.

See the full content for Preparing and Managing Websites.

Create a new html document in Dreamweaver.

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Build the structure for a html page using the Insert panel and DOM panel in Dreamweaver.

See the full content for Creating Page Structure.

Add text and graphic content to an html document. Content added includes links, bulleted lists, headings, text from other files, content from built in snippets, and images.

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Learn how to create cascading style sheets using the Dreamweaver interface.

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Learn how to save a html files as a template, and how to create pages for a site using the template.

See the full content for Creating a Template.

Learn how to publish a finished site to a web server and how to prevent certain files or folders from being published.

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