Welcome to COIN74A Dreamweaver CS3
Welcome to Web design using Dreamweaver CS3, Spring Qtr. 2009. This website contains the pages that you will access through ETUDES. You may additionally navigate the course through this website, and quickly access the lectures for each week. Please remember that your assignments follow a schedule as shown in ETUDES, and you must submit your work, as URLs to your artifacts, through ETUDES. If you have questions, please email me, and always include COIN74A in the subject line of your correspondence. All work is submitted electronically through ETUDES.
Course information
- Course summary - please review this before you start the course
- Syllabus - course syllabus (pdf)
- Grading - course grading
- Final project - description of your final project
- Requirements - for your final project
- Textbook - recommended for this course
- HW file - link to an organizing file for your homework
Assignments
- Assignment one - Installing Dreamweaver, configuring your Unix account, posting an introduction
- Assignment two - Creating a site definition and uploading your website
- Assignment three - Dreamweaver workspace and adding text features to your site
- Assignment four - Images, and using rollovers, image maps, and navigation bars
- Assignment five - Tables, Templates, Libraries and Snippets
- Assignment six - Flash Video, and SimpleViewer
- Knowledge Quest - A special assignment
- Assignment seven - Forms
- Assignment eight - CSS
- Assignment nine - AP Elements (layers), Positioning, and Behaviors
- Assignment ten - Framesets
- Assignment eleven - XHTML, XML, RSS and XML site maps
- Assignment twelve - Google webmaster tools
- Final Project - Submission of a link to your final project
Outline of lectures
- Class 1 - Getting started
- Class 2 - Dreamweaver basics
- Class 2 - Site definition
- Class 2 - Site navigation
- Class 2 - FTP part 1
- Class 2 - FTP part 2
- Class 3 - Dreamweaver workspace
- Class 3 - Text formatting
- Class 4 - Images
- Class 4 - Rollover images
- Class 4 - Image maps
- Class 4 - Navigation bar
- Class 5 - Tables
- Class 5 - Tables layout
- Class 5 - Templates
- Class 5 - Libraries
- Class 5 - Snippets
- Class 6 - Flash
- Class 6 - Flash video
- Class 6 - SimpleViewer
- Class 6 - Usability
- Class 7 - Forms
- Class 8 - CSS intro
- Class 8 - CSS styles panel
- Class 8 - CSS defining classes
- Class 8 - New CSS tutorial
- Class 9 - AP Elements
- Class 9 - Positioning
- Class 9 - Behaviors
- Class 9 - Spry Behaviors
- Class 10 - Framesets
- Class 10 - Frameset Tutorial
- Class 10 - Inline Frames (iframes)
- Class 10 - Google Web Elements (iframes)
- Class 10 - Gadgets and Widgets
- Class 11 - XML and XHTML
- Class 12 - Google webmaster tools
- Class 12 - Marketing techniques
Tutorials
- Using ETUDES - a good tutorial to start using our course management system
- CSS Tutorial - a great, up-to-date tutorial from w3schools
- CSS overview - getting started with CSS
- CSS formatting examples - fonts and text
- CSS absolute positioning of images - an advanced look at page layout using CSS
- Tutorialized Dreamweaver tutorials - an excellent compendium of material to augment this course
Resources
- Dreamweaver CS4: The Missing Manual by David McFarland
- CSS Mastery: Advanced Web Standards Solutions by Andy Budd, Simon Collison, Cameron Moll