Basic, ACA Edition
Topic-Level Outline
Days: 1
Prerequisites: Windows
7: Basic, Windows Vista: Basic, Windows XP: Basic, or equivalent
experience
Unit 1: Getting started
Topic A: Internet basics
A-1: Discussing the Web, HTML, and XHTML
Topic B: Project management basics
B-1: Discussing basic project management concepts
B-2: Discussing basic design considerations
Topic C: The Dreamweaver CS5 interface
C-1: Identifying interface components
C-2: Customizing your workspace
C-3: Working with the Property inspector
Topic D: Basic editing
D-1: Discussing Web page elements
D-2: Inserting and editing text
D-3: Adding an image
D-4: Previewing a page in a browser
Unit 2: Web sites and pages
Topic A: Planning tools and design principles
A-1: Discussing planning tools
A-2: Discussing design factors and principles
Topic B: Defining and building a site
B-1: Defining a local site and exploring assets
B-2: Creating a new page
B-3: Importing text
B-4: Setting page properties
Topic C: Working with code
C-1: Working with code and code tools
C-2: Inserting special characters and spaces
C-3: Finding and replacing content and code
Unit 3: Structure and style
Topic A: Structure
A-1: Defining headings and paragraphs
A-2: Creating lists
Topic B: Cascading Style Sheets
B-1: Discussing style sheets and selectors
B-2: Creating and attaching an external style sheet
B-3: Defining element styles
B-4: Creating and applying class styles
Unit 4: Tables
Topic A: Creating tables
A-1: Creating a table
A-2: Creating a nested table
Topic B: Table structure and formatting
B-1: Selecting and formatting rows
B-2: Inserting and formatting columns and rows
B-3: Applying fixed and variable widths
B-4: Customizing table cell properties
Unit 5: Links
Topic A: Creating links
A-1: Creating a link to a page in your site
A-2: Creating and linking to a named anchor
A-3: Creating external links and e-mail links
A-4: Creating an image map
Topic B: Applying link styles
B-1: Applying styles to link states
Unit 6: Image formats and attributes
Topic A: Working with images
A-1: Discussing image formats
A-2: Using images for text
A-3: Setting image attributes
A-4: Inserting and controlling a background image
Unit 7: Publishing
Topic A: Site checks and publishing
A-1: Discussing copyrighted works
A-2: Checking page size, download time, and spelling
A-3: Checking links and cloaking files
A-4: Using FTP to connect to a server
A-5: Uploading a site
A-6: Discussing site updates
Appendix A: ACA exam objectives map
Topic A: ACA exam objectives