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Macromedia Dreamweaver Macromedia Dreamweaver MX 2004www.freeu.com www.compuskills.com

your instructor: matthew [email protected]

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getting started todaygetting started today

quick introductions -- customizing this coursequick introductions -- customizing this course administriviaadministrivia how to make this a better classhow to make this a better class menu of possible class topics and tasksmenu of possible class topics and tasks

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quick introductionsquick introductionscustomizing this coursecustomizing this course

who are you and what do you do?who are you and what do you do? what is your experience with computers, what is your experience with computers,

the Internet, and the World Wide Web?the Internet, and the World Wide Web? what is your experience with web design, what is your experience with web design,

Dreamweaver, and HTML?Dreamweaver, and HTML? what are your goals today? what do you what are your goals today? what do you

hope to get from this class?hope to get from this class? what is something interesting about you?what is something interesting about you?

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quick introductionsquick introductions

matthew wyllyamzsoftware instructor since 1993, with an emphasis on multimedia, graphics, and Internet

development.

have created courses for Jefferson County Adult Ed, CCU in Lakewood, Productivity Point, and the DOD (at Rocky Flats).

taught Apple Macintosh classes exclusively for five years, and have been using the Internetsince 1994.

learned HTML circa 1996. used MS FrontPage exclusively for 10 years. recently converted to Macromedia Dreamweaver and Flash for web development.

corporate webmaster for two years ('97-'99),

blogmaster for seven years. ('99-'05)

TODAY: independent contractor, technical & creative consultant, artist, amateur photographer, and author. BA in English writing, and have sold three books.

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administriviaadministrivia

class tickets and/or confirmation numbersclass tickets and/or confirmation numbers facilities …facilities …

– bathrooms, vending, free coffee & water, microwave …bathrooms, vending, free coffee & water, microwave …– the projection systemthe projection system

course schedule: 9am – 4pmcourse schedule: 9am – 4pm– Two morning sessions (10-15 min short break)Two morning sessions (10-15 min short break)– One hour lunch break around 12 or 12:30One hour lunch break around 12 or 12:30– Two afternoon sessions (10-15 min short break)Two afternoon sessions (10-15 min short break)

class evaluationsclass evaluations

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please set pagers and cell phones to silent or turn off.please set pagers and cell phones to silent or turn off. understand the nature of understand the nature of concentrated computer trainingconcentrated computer training

– class is part discussion, part lecture, part hands-on.– breaks can be short, but effective.– bathroom visits: anytime is the right time!– watch the screen, then try it yourself.– PARTICIPATE! ask questions. answer questions. take notes.– this is a cooperative learning environment:

We are here to learn from each other.

keep in mind that this course was designed for akeep in mind that this course was designed for aparticular level of student:particular level of student:

how to make this a better classhow to make this a better class

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keep in mind that this course was designed for a particular keep in mind that this course was designed for a particular level of student:level of student:

Created for- a semi-experienced computer user with a comfortable working knowledge of the Windows environment.- the beginning Dreamweaver user who knows what the Web and HTML are, but has never or rarely used this specific software.

NOT created for- the beginning computer user.

- the more intermediate or advanced Dreamweaver user.

most importantly …most importantly …

how to make this a better classhow to make this a better class

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most importantly …most importantly …

Make it fun! Make it fun!

how to make this a better classhow to make this a better class

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menu of possible class topicsmenu of possible class topics

1st day web page essentials

An introduction to HTML

Site design vs. page design

Underlying website structure

Site management

Creating new web objects

Application window overview

Different views & previews

What exactly is a "web browser"?

Essential formatting:

words, paragraphs, pages

Aspects of hyperlinks

Web server addressing

2nd day more sophisticated designs

How monitor size & screen rez affect web design

Using tables to format pages

How background images work

Different image formats

Understanding web graphics

Utilizing templates

Frames pages?

Publishing your web

What you need for a site

Summary of best SEO techniques

Conclusions …

… and a word about your book

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Moving on …Moving on …Moving on …Moving on …

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An introduction to HTMLAn introduction to HTML

(pages 44-45, 48-53)

Do you need to know it?

The more you understand the limits of HTML,the more it will help you in your page designs.

A markup language, not a programming language

The structure of tag nesting <b>words go here</b>

The importance of syntax

Understanding different "flavors." eg: XHTML"Deprecated" tags

And so what is an HTML editor? …

http://www.w3schools.comXHMTL Syntax

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Site managementSite management

(pages 20-21)

To work on a site, you should create a local copy.

Defining local and remote sites (246-247)

Utilization of the files panel (pg. 241)

Publishing your site, or … "Putting" and "getting" (250-255)

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Creating new web objectsCreating new web objects

Creating new web structures is easy. (page 22)

Organizing your site with folders (244-245) File and folder naming conventions:

– Lowercase, no spaces, no special characters

– Remember: file names = web page addresses.

– Search engines use key words in file names to help rank your pages' importance.

Is there a difference between .htm and .html?

(pages, folders, etc.)

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Site design vs. page designSite design vs. page design

Be thinking of both as you prepare and as you work.

Remember, not all web pages are contained withina web site.

"Information architecture" or …

Planning and designing your site

– Defining the objectives of the site: audience, purpose, image …

– Diagramming work flow

– Storyboarding page designs

To safely work on a site, you should create a local copy.

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The underlying structure of a websiteThe underlying structure of a website

What is a "home page" really?

How is site/page addressing affected by file and directory names?

Folders or "directories"

– Understanding the nature of root levels

Understanding index.htm as the "magical file name" (page 25)

The importance of managing files from within the site management application!!!

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An overview of the application windowAn overview of the application window

(page 12)

Primary toolbars, buttons, menus, and panels

– Everything customizable (pg. 30)

– Remember your visual clues

The multi-talented "insert bar"

The context-sensitive "properties inspector" (32-33)

Panels: files, assets, history, CSS, etc (36-37)

Don’t forget about the Help system! (16-17)

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Understanding different viewsUnderstanding different views

Utilizing site or folder views

Design vs. Code vs. Split … (pages 31, 46-47)

Previewing your pages in different web browsers(pg. 26, 242-243)

– You are going to want to preview your pages constantly: F12

– Predefining your preview browsers (pg. 27)

– Prefer the "Temporary File Option" to avoid having to save before each and every preview.

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What exactly is a "web browser"?What exactly is a "web browser"?

"A web browser is a software application that enables a user to display and interact with text, images, and other information typically located on a web page at a website on the World Wide Web or a local area network. Web browsers allow a user to quickly and easily access information provided on many web pages at many websites by traversing these links. Web browsers convert HTML coding for display, so the appearance of a web page may differ between browsers. Web browsers available for personal computers include Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, Safari, Netscape, and Opera in order of descending popularity (as of August 2006)."

• More than 10 years ago, Netscape Navigator was the widest used graphical-based client and server program for the Internet with 71% market share.

• As a web designer, you must give a lot of thought to the browsers people are using and test your pages accordingly.

"2005: Market share for the open-source Mozilla Firefox climbed above 6%, while Microsoft's Internet Explorer share dropped below 90%."

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Today the two most popular browsersfor the WWW are:

MS Internet Explorer (60%) Mozilla Firefox (30%)

Current and updated browser statistics

Which browsers should you test your pages in?Which browsers should you test your pages in?

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Essential formatting:Essential formatting:

Basic character-level formatting

– Bold, italic, underline, etc. …

– "Font combination groups" for web design (pages 33, 70-71)Changing the entire page vs. altering individual text selections

– Size: relative vs. absolute definitions (pg. 72)

(Prefer pixels [px] as the measurement of choice for web dev.)

– Heading (format) tags do more than effect size, but also designatethe *importance* of the content. (60-61)

– Understanding the "web-safe" color palette's 216 colors and their hexadecimal codes (pg. 75)

Adding special characters (68-69)

– Non-breaking spaces: Ctrl Shift spacebar

Using HTML Heading Tags

words, paragraphs, and pages

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Essential formatting:Essential formatting:

Importing content from other documents or applications (pages 76-77)

– Beware of unexpected results …

Two different kinds of line breaks (62-64)

– "Enter" or <p> </p> (vs.) "Shift-enter" or <br> or <br />

Paragraph or "block-level" formatting is different thancharacter-level formatting (65-67)

– Block-level formatting always applies to entire blocks of text within <p>

Alignment, indents, bulleted & numbered lists

Horizontal lines <hr> or <hr />

words, paragraphs, and pages

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Essential formatting:Essential formatting:

The page title, different than the file name (page 23)

Page titles are used to identify your pages in …

– The web page's title bar

– Browser histories and bookmarks/favorites

– Search engine results lists

– Search engines also use page titles to rank your pages

Therefore page titles should also be descriptive and use key words.

Description & key words "meta tags" (54-55)

Keep revisiting your page properties. (74-75)

words, paragraphs, and pages

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Essential formatting:Essential formatting:

Modifying hyperlink colors (pages 124-125)

Defining the background

– Background color vs. background image (pg. 96)

– Keep readability as your primary concern

– More advanced background options exist when using CSS

– Free background images on the web

Margins: Don't mess with them unless you have to.

The location of all these attributes is important to understandif you are working with frames pages.

words, paragraphs, and pages

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Aspects of hyperlinksAspects of hyperlinks(pages 108- 111)

A hyperlink has two parts

– Its form: text or image (112-113), Its coding: address & optional target

– The wording of your links is important.

Several different methods of inserting links (pg. 120)

– Properties inspector, insert bar/menu, right-click, and …

– The "point to file" icon

Understanding absolute & relative paths

– Absolute paths: http://www.macromedia.com/support/dreamweaver/contents.html

– Document-relative paths: dreamweaver/contents.html

– Site-root relative paths: /support/dreamweaver/contents.html

Specifying targets for onsite and offsite links (pg. 121)

"Jump" links, aka: "bookmark" or "anchor" links (114-115)

Email links (34, 122)

Image maps or "hotspots" (118-119)

Always test your links! (pg. 123)

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Understanding web server addressing: Understanding web server addressing:

Addressing appears in the HTML code for:links, images, and other embedded content.

Absolute vs. relative addresses

Understanding paths

The whole / and ../ thing

Let the application do the addressing for you!

hyperlinks, images, and other content

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How monitor size & screen resolution affect web designHow monitor size & screen resolution affect web design

Understanding the situation – everybody's computer is different!

– Varying monitor sizes, resolutions, web browsers, and OSs make controlling web page output impossible.

This issue affects:

Table layouts, divisions/layers, framesets, and background images.

Different methods of dealing with this phenomenon:

– Understanding "relative" vs. "absolute" size definitions

– Rigid designs vs. flexible designs (and combinations)

– Left-justified designs vs. centered designs

– Using images to prevent collapsing columns

Utilizing Dreamweaver's resolution preview commands

Test your pages everywhere you possibly can!

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http://www.alltm.orgcolumn at nearly 100% of window, looks more amateur, body text more difficult to read.

http://www.abos-littleton.com simple, small, rigid, left-justified design, even works in 640x480.

http://www.lacitybeat.com centered rigid columns with flexible "white space" side bars, optimized for 800x600 and 1024x768, but "fails gracefully" in 640x480.

There are varying design methods you can use to your advantage, but realize that each may have its drawbacks also.

As a general rule, optimize your pages for 1024 x 768,but they should also look good in 800 x 600 … and on larger displays.

http://www.markhorrell.com/tools/browser.html http://www.useit.com/alertbox/screen_resolution.html

http://www.netmechanic.com/news ...

How monitor size & screen resolution affect web designHow monitor size & screen resolution affect web design

examples …

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higherhigher20%20%

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Meno treo

Meno katra

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space" or

optional content

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Rigid table set to 955px wide

Rigid column 220px

Rigid column540px

Optional contentrigid 195px

.GIF190px

.JPG 540px

http://www.abos-littleton.com simple, small, rigid, left-justified design, even works in 640x480.

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.GIF190px

.JPG 540px

Rigid column 540pxRigidcolumn220px

Two columns = 760px

http://www.lacitybeat.com centered rigid columns with flexible "white space" side bars, optimized for

800x600 and 1024x768, but "fails gracefully" in 640x480.

FlexibleFlexiblecolumn:column:

white white spacespace15%15%

FlexibleFlexiblecolumn:column:

white white spacespace15%15%

Flexible table set to 100% wide

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Using tables to format pages & columnsThis technique separates the amateurs from the more advanced

web page layout artists.

(pages 128-137) Tables are a key element of HTML page design.

–Divisions/layers are an alternative, but with older browsers,the results may be unpredictable.

Methods of creating tables Making selections within a table Inserting/deleting rows/columns (138-139) Merging and splitting cells (140-141) Relative vs. absolute size definitions Table and cell properties (142-143) Nesting tables within tables Understanding invisible spacer images (pg. 149)

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Understanding more about background imagesUnderstanding more about background images

(pages 94-96)

Images can be set as backgrounds of pages, frames, tables, table cells, and "layers."

Background images automatically tile when they are smaller than the set area. (pg. 95)

Combine this understanding with an appreciation of how monitor size and screen resolution can affect your designs.

You can use this to your design advantage, but it has its drawbacks also.

Use background images appropriately.

– Page text and background color/image should contrast.

– Readability of online documents is key!

Free background images on the web

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Different image formats and their usesDifferent image formats and their uses

(page 81) JPG: good compression can lead to poor quality GIF: transparencies and animation PNG: smaller files, better quality, less support

Understanding resolution and "resampling."

The Rule: You can sample down, but not up.The Rule: You can sample down, but not up.

Using image "slices" for faster downloads How big should a web page be? (pg. 83)

– For all files loading on a single page:Dial-up: 50kBroadband: 100k

– The closer a page is to the top of your site, the faster it should be.

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Inserting images and understanding graphicsInserting images and understanding graphics

(pages 80-81)

How images are saved into your web

– A web page is simple text, typed as code.

– Multimedia content is NOT embedded into the page.

– It is simply addressed or linked to.

Picture properties and toolbars

– Basic image editing within the app (86-89)

– "Alt text" and "accessibility" (pg. 97)

Prefer to use "camera-ready" images. (87, 89)

Understanding text wrap and alignment

(82-83, 92-93)

Placeholders, borders, and image margins

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Utilizing templatesUtilizing templates

(page 186)

The difference between simple templates & true templates Creating a template (196-197) Adding and/or removing editable regions (198-199) Creating pages from your template (200-201) Editing the template, updating the site (202-203)

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Working with frames pagesWorking with frames pages Should you use frames?

Frames can be a very good idea when working with third-party content holders.

Each frame is an individual HTML page. A frameset is contained within a master frames page. (page 152)

This master frames page …– includes title and meta data– defines the properties of the frameset

Creating, saving, and editing framesets (153-157, 162-163) Relative vs. absolute size definitions also apply here. Frame properties (158-159, 163, 166-169) Adding content to frames, including off-site pages (160-161) Link targets and frames (164-165)

Web Style Guide: Frames To Frame or Not to Frame?

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Working with frames pagesWorking with frames pages

_self is the same as the default target or no target at all. _blank always loads the hyperlink into a new window. _top loads the link into the full browser window, thereby removing all

frames. _parent is the most complicated one:

"_parent" is used in the situation where a frameset file is nested inside another frameset file. A link in one of the inner frameset documents which uses "_parent" will load the new document where the inner frameset file had been. If the current document's frameset file does not have any "parent", then "_parent" works exactly like "_top": the new document is loaded in the full window. Note that "_parent" does not work in a frameset which is merely nested inside another framset in the same frameset file.

When you have defined frames, other options will appear, such as _mainframe

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Publishing your webPublishing your web

(page 240)

Importing pages and entire webs is possible.

Working live or remotely vs. working locally

– Backing up your site with this method

– How to edit existing pages without ruining them

Publishing your site, or … "Putting" and "getting" (250-253)

– Connecting to the remote web server (248-249)

– You can publish your site in any "direction."

– Synchronizing local & remote sites (254-255)

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What do you need to have your own site?What do you need to have your own site?

An appropriate computer system w/ Internet access The tools:

– Text editor or HTML editor

– Image editor

– Web browsers for testing

Web "hosting." eg: godaddy.com

http://www.webhostingratings.com

A delivery method: FrontPage, Dreamweaver, web publishing wizard, or straight FTP

A domain name is optional, but preferred.

Register your domain at networksolutions.com Register your site all over the web: google, etc.

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Page titles & filenames should use descriptive keywords– If possible make each page of your web different

Put effort into your key word and description meta tags. Use "format headings" to highlight important text on the page. Use alt text tags in images. More recently updated pages get a better page rank. Register many (if not all) of your site's pages in as many

places as you can. Register your site under multiple domain names. Incoming links are the best way to boost your page rank.

– The more sites the better.

– The better their page rank, the more it helps.

Avoid any and all spamdexing.

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Conclusions …Conclusions …

You cannot learn the violin in a day or two.

Web design is a skill – like any other – that requires gradual & continual practice & improvement.

Approach everything on a need-to-know basis, and don't worry about that which you do not yet understand.

Stay upbeat!… but if you get frustrated, remember:

You can always turn off the machine and walk away. :)

Good luck. Best wishes.And get in touch if you need more help!

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