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Course Name
Dreamweaver 8 Series

Contact Hours: 4
Course Description

Dreamweaver is a popular and powerful tool to build rich, professional Web sites and Web applications. These courses introduce the new features found in Dreamweaver 8.

Features:

  • Flash and audio provide animated, interactive Lesson Introductions, Activities, and Simulations.
  • audio accompanies each lesson page throughout the course
  • Activities allow learners to apply course concepts in an interactive questioning environment.
  • Exercises allow learners to practice in the actual application being studied.
  • Simulations teach learners to perform specific tasks in applications through guided, multi-step exercises.
  • Find-A-Word allows learners to look up an unfamiliar term in the Glossary, on the Web, in a dictionary, or in MindLeaders Reference Library (for subscribers). n addition, it lets them find other occurrences of the term in the same course.
  • Search text enables learners to rapidly search all text within a course to easily retrieve information required.
  • Courses challenge the learner with a variety of question formats, including multi-step simulations, true/false, multiple choice, and fill-in-the-blank.
  • A skill assessment generates a customized learning path based on the results of a pre-test.
  • A glossary provides a reference for definitions of unfamiliar terms.
  • Bookmarking tracks a learner`s progress in a course.
Outcome

After completing this course, students will be able to:

New Design Tools

  • View different areas of your document with the Zoom tool
  • Position page content using guides
  • Perform common coding tasks with the Coding toolbar
  • Create new pages using the built-in Starter Pages
  • Insert Flash video
  • Create and edit CSS with the unified CSS Styles panel

New Application Development Features

  • Create XML documents
  • Create XSL transformations
  • Add RSS feeds to your Web pages
  • Use the site and file management features
  • Save your workspace layout
  • Access built-in reference resources
Assessment

Students may master the course/s by achieving a percentage at or above 70% for each individual lesson, through their scoring results of the course questions, the skill assessment, or a combination of both.

Outline

New Design Tools

  • Zoom and guides
  • Coding toolbar
  • Paste Special
  • New Starter Pages
  • Flash video
  • CSS Styles panel
  • CSS visualization

New Application Development Features

  • Visual XML authoring
  • XML and RSS feeds
  • Site and file management
  • Additional enhancements