Dreamweaver CS6

Basic, ACE 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: 0 The Internet and website planning

A-1: Discussing the Internet, HTML and XHTML

A-2: Discussing basic design considerations

Topic B: 0 Setting up your workspace

B-1: Identifying workspace components

B-2: Selecting a workspace layout

B-3: Managing panels and panel groups

B-4: Creating a custom workspace

Topic C: 0 The Document window

C-1: Switching the view

C-2: Enabling Live View and Live Code

C-3: Working in the Document window

C-4: Discussing web page elements

C-5: Inserting and editing text

Topic D: 0 The Property inspector

D-1: Working with the Property inspector

Topic E: 0 Previewing a web page

E-1: Previewing a page in a browser

E-2: Setting the primary and secondary browsers

Unit 2 : Websites and pages

Topic A: 0 Planning a website

A-1: Discussing planning tools

Topic B: 0 Setting up a site

B-1: Defining a local site

Topic C: 0 Creating web pages

C-1: Exploring the New Document dialog box

C-2: Creating a new web page

C-3: Setting up page properties

Topic D: 0 Exploring website files

D-1: Examining the Files panel

Topic E: 0 Managing site files

E-1: Organizing site files

Unit 3 : Basic editing

Topic A: 0 Inserting and importing text

A-1: Importing text

Topic B: 0 Using special characters

B-1: Inserting special characters and spaces

Topic C: 0 Adding structure

C-1: Defining headings and paragraphs

Topic D: 0 Inserting line breaks

D-1: Inserting line breaks

Topic E: 0 Creating lists

E-1: Creating lists

Unit 4 : CSS basics

Topic A: 0 Overview of style sheets

A-1: Discussing style sheets

A-2: Discussing selector types and their syntax

Topic B: 0 External style sheets

B-1: Creating an external style sheet

Topic C: 0 Creating styles

C-1: Defining element styles

C-2: Creating class styles

C-3: Applying class styles

Topic D: 0 Cascade effect

D-1: Examining the cascade effect

Unit 5 : Images, multimedia, and links

Topic A: 0 Working with images

A-1: Discussing image formats

A-2: Inserting images

A-3: Setting image attributes

A-4: Using placeholder images

A-5: Inserting rollover images

Topic B: 0 Editing images

B-1: Editing images within Dreamweaver

B-2: (Optional) Editing images with an external image editor

Topic C: 0 Adding Flash

C-1: Adding Flash

Topic D: 0 Examining links

D-1: Discussing links

Topic E: 0 Adding links

E-1: Creating a link to a page in your site

E-2: Creating and linking to a named anchor

E-3: Creating external links and email links

E-4: Applying styles to link states

Unit 6 : Code basics

Topic A: 0 Discussing code basics

Topic B: 0 Exploring head elements

B-1: Discussing head elements

B-2: Examining a document’s head section

B-3: Defining keywords for your site

B-4: Creating a description of your site

Topic C: 0 Selecting code

C-1: Exploring the Code Navigator and tag selector

Topic D: 0 Inserting code

D-1: Inserting code and code comments in Code view

Topic E: 0 Editing code

E-1: Editing code

Topic F: 0 Using Find and Replace

F-1: Using Find and Replace

Unit 7 : Publishing

Topic A: 0 Performing pre-publishing checks

A-1: Checking page size, download time, and spelling

A-2: Checking links and cloaking files

A-3: Validating code

Topic B: 0 Specifying site connections

B-1: Setting up server connections

Topic C: 0 Transferring files

C-1: Using Get and Put to transfer files

C-2: Using Check In and Check Out