Adobe Dreamweaver Level 1 Basic-Intermediate Training Course

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All Classes are guaranteed to run or your money back.		(Many keep postponing classes until they have sufficient students)
Better Business Bureau Accredited Business.		(Not an Accredited Business. No assurance if it is a real company)
Easy Refund Policy. Cancel before the course starts and receive a refund the same day. Reschedule at any time with our no fee rescheduling policy.		(Most companies charged a cancellation fee of up to $400 and take more than 20 days to issue refunds. Please check before you sign up)
Small classes Size.		(Classes with 18+ students)
Flexible Schedule (Weekday, Evening, and Weekend).		(Just Weekday classes)
Instructor with real world Experience.		(Instructors with no real world Experience)
Live instructor-led training.
Great Location. A few blocks from Penn Station and Port Authority.		(Have to take additional trains and buses to get there)
American owned and operated company.		(Non-American company)
New York State Licensed Regulated School.		(Non-licensed illegal school)
One free retake of the course for up to one year.		(No retakes allowed)
Flat $449.00 tuition. No extra fees for books or supplies ($100 value).		(Some providers charge for books or for using a credit card to pay)

Where is the school located?

New York City Location
545 8th Avenue, 4th Floor
New York, NY 10018
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Washington, DC / Virginia Location
1901 N. Fort Myer Drive, Suite 1020
Arlington, VA 22209
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Why is the tuition much lower than other schools?

Our tuition is much lower than other training providers because we have optimized our business processes to ensure quality training at a reasonable price. As a smaller school with lower overhead we are able to provide a great class and better value to our students.

What are your instructors like?

We only hire the best instructors. Our instructors for Adobe design courses must have a minimum of 10 years of real world experience and at least 5 years of teaching experience.

Why should I choose your training over other Adobe training providers?

Choosing a training provider can be tough choice. We all claim to offer the best value, in terms of price, passing rates, and guarantee. The Technical Institute of America offers the lowest price, one of the best passing rate, and an excellent guarantee. As a New York State licensed school and Better Business Bureau Accredited business we can honestly say what we offer is the truth and you can verify it.

Do you ever cancel a class because you don't have enough students?

No, we never cancel a class. We will teach a class with 1 registered student if we have to. If unforeseen circumstances arise such as bad weather, instructor health or family problems and we have to cancel a class, we will offer all students a 100% refund or reschedule to another class.

Lesson 1: Overview and Orientation

• Introduction to Dreamweaver: Workspace and Capabilities
• Keyboard Shortcuts and Best-Practices
• Principles of sound Web design

Lesson 2: HTML Tags and Webpage Layout Overview

• What is HTML, HTML5, XHTML?
• Create a new HTML page. File type options.
• My first Web Page: “Hello TIA”
• Design View vs. Code View: when to work in one or the other
• HTML tags found in every page and Tag Syntax (opening and closing tags)
• Basic formatting tags: bold,  italic, header and paragraph tag
• Tags that have no closing tag
• Fixed vs. Liquid layout: using pixels vs. percent (%)—pros and cons
• Working with Grids and Guides
• What goes in the HEAD of a Webpage, as opposed to the BODY?

Lesson 3: Defining a New Website

• Planning a Website project
• Defining a Site and specifying a Root Folder
• The Pages panel: where your assets are stored and managed
• Best-practices with folder hierarchies and naming conventions
• Copying your work to an external drive
• Viewing your Website in the major browsers: IE, Firefox, Chrome, Safari

Lesson 4: Working with and Optimizing Web Images

• Placing images into your webpage
• Web compatible image formats: JPG, GIF, PNG
• Flowing text and images side-by-side
• Using Placeholder Images in your Webpage layout (until the actual image is ready)
• Optimizing Images for Web in Photoshop
• Scaling and Cropping images within Dreamweaver
• Adding / removing image borders

Lesson 5: Tables

• Organizing content into HTML Tables
• Merging, deleting table cells; adding/removing Table Rows
• Displaying tabular data in…tables
• When to use / not use Tables

Lesson 6: Hyperlinks and PDFs

• The link tag: “A” for “address”
• Relative URL: link to a page within your own Site (Root Folder)
• Absolute URL: link to a page outside of your Site (ebay, amazon, etc.)
• Hyperlink Target: open page in a new window or existing window?
• Links on images (as opposed to text)
• Image Maps: multiple links on a single image, such as a world map
• Anchor links (#): Links that take you to a destination…on the same page
• Linking to a PDF document, which opens in the Adobe Acrobat Reader, installed in the Browser

Lesson 7: Attributes and Meta Data

• Html Tag Attributes: like adjectives which describe the noun (tag)
• Tags which must have at least one attribute.
• Attribute syntax: Name-Value Pairs
• Code Hints: Hand-coding attributes in Code View vs. adding them in Design View
• Adding Meta Tag Keywords to your Website
• Adding Meta Tag Descriptions to your Website

Lesson 8: Lists: Bulleted and Numbered

• Unordered (bulleted) lists
• Ordered (numbered) lists
• Hierarchical lists (lists within lists)
• List icons and numbering options

Lesson 9: CSS (Cascading Style Sheets): Tag-modifier CSS

• What is CSS? Where is CSS found in the code? Why is CSS so important in Web design?
• Tag-modifier CSS: The name of the CSS Rule equals the name of the HTML Tag it modifies
• Tag-modifier Rules for header, p, strong and other core tags.
• Applying Tag-based CSS and seeing it take effect on the Webpage automatically

Lesson 10: CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) Class-modifier CSS

• Class-modifier CSS: CSS Rules that are applied to a selection
• Creating a Class CSS for selected text content
• Creating a Class CSS to give the current page link a unique look
• Creating a Class CSS: nothing happens until the CSS is applied to a selection
• Adding Formatting as CSS vs. as HTML Attributes

Lesson 11: CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) Compound-modifier CSS

• Compound CSS: a mix or two or more CSS types, for example Tag+Class or Tag+Attribute
• Creating a Compound CSS to style the different attributes of a hyperlink: e.g. hover and visited.
• Moving CSS Rules: getting your CSS out of the page’s head and an external .css page

Lesson 12: Dreamweaver Templates

• Templates: automating and streamlining your workflow
• Setting up a page with Template content, such as headers, footers, and links/navigation
• Define Editable Regions : areas which will not be the same on every page.
• Define Repeating Regions
• Save As Template (creating the .dwt file)
• Create new pages Based On Template
• Convert an existing layout into a Template by saving- deleting content; adding Editable Region

Lesson 13: Libraries, Snippets and Includes

• Creating Resuable objects and storing them in Libraries
• Creating Reusable code blocks and deploying them as Snippets and Includes
• Edit the Template and Update all the dependent pages automatically
• Edit your external CSS to update the entire site, Template and dependent pages

Lesson 14: Video and Multimedia: Flash, HTML5 Video, YouTube Video

• Deploying Flash Video in your Website
• Adding a Flash Animated Banner to your Website
• Playing a video using the new HTML5 Video Tag.
• Playing a YouTube Video on your Website

Lesson 15: FTP (File Transfer Protocol):

• FTP (File Transfer Protocol): How to get your content online)
• Username and Password: connecting to your Website
• Uploading your Website to your Web server
• Viewing Local and Remote sites side-by-side
• Managing multiple websites: creating Remote folders for each project
• Downloading from Web Server to Local Site

Lesson 16: Web Domain Registration and Hosting

• How to register a new Website Domain Name (WorldsGreatestWhatever.com)
• Hosting issues and domain name transferring