Course Outline

Offered by Networked Information Services

Instructor: (Contact: www.bu.edu/webcentral/help/)
Prerequisites: HTML: Introduction and HTML: Intermediate or equivalent knowledge
2 hours (50 minutes lecture, 50 minutes hands-on exercises, 10-minute break)

User interface

1. Using the Design window
2. Using the Properites palette
3. Using the Objects palette
4. Using the Launcher Palette
5. Using the Help system

Hands-on exercise: Touring the Dreamweaver interface (5 minutes)

1. Start Dreamweaver.
2. Open or identify the various interface elements, menus, and tools.

Customizing Dreamweaver (10 minutes)

1. Configuring Dreamweave: Strongly recommended settings
2. Customizing Dreamweaver: General preference options
3. Using keyboard shortcuts

Hands-on exercise: Customizing Dreamweaver (5 minutes)

1. Set code format to lowercase for tags and attributes.
2. Disable deferred updating of tables.
3. Set Dreamweaver to save web pages using .html extension.
4. Set default software for editing .html, .htaccess, .template, and .message files.

Defining a site (5 minutes)

1. Setting up your local site
2. Connecting to your web server
3. Downloading a copy of your site
4. Site synchronizing and site cache overview

Hands-on exercise: Defining and downloading a site (10 minutes)

1. Define a local site.
2. Establish a connection to the practice area on a web server.
3. Download a copy of the practice site.

Formatting basics: Images (10 minutes)

1. Adding images and image attributes
2. Creating image maps

Break (10 minutes)

Formatting basics: Tables for page layouts (15 minutes)

1. Creating tables using layout view
2. Editing tables with the Properties palette

Hands-on exercise: Designing basic page layouts - tables and images (20 minutes)

1. Create a table for a page layout using layout view.
2. Merge cells in the table.
3. Add graphics to the table cells.
4. Add links to the navigation graphics.
5. Add an image map to the logo graphic.

Hands-on exercise: Synchronizing and reviewing a site (10 minutes)

1. Close and save files.
2. Upload changed files.
3. Review published work online using a web browser.

Supplementary material: More formatting basics (not covered during class)

1. Working with text
2. Using Spellchecker
3. Importing HTML created in Microsoft Word

Supplementary material: Tables for tabular data (not covered during class) (Data tables)

1. Creating tables
2. Formatting tables
3. Sorting tables