Dreamweaver MX: Level 2


Performance-Based Objectives
•    Create dynamic user-interface elements, including simple rollovers and complex navigation bars.
•    Use libraries to manage repeating site elements.
•    Define keyword, description, and other meta tags in order to make your site visible to automatic search engine spiders.
•    Create CSS styles to streamline text formatting within a page, and create external style sheets to allow formatting information to be used throughout a site.
•    Create and manage layers, as well as combine layers with behaviors to provide additional visual feedback for a viewer navigating a site.
•    Use the History panel to simplify repetitive tasks both within a single document and with other documents in a site.
•    Target page content to specific browsers and versions.
•    Add a form to your web page.

Prerequisites:  Dreamweaver MX: Level 1

Course Content
Lesson 1: Rollovers and Navigation Bars
Topic 1A: Rollovers
Topic 1B: Adding Image States to a Navigation Bar Using Behaviors
Topic 1C: Using the Insert Navigation Bar Tool
Topic 1D: Flash Buttons and Text
Lesson 2: Libraries
Topic 2A: Creating a Library
Topic 2B: Modifying Library Items within the Library Panel
Lesson 3: Defining Head Elements and Managing Keyboard Shortcuts
Topic 3A: Defining Head Elements
Topic 3B: Editing Meta Tags
Topic 3C: Customizing Keyboard Shortcuts
Lesson 4: Style Sheets
Topic 4A: Defining Style Sheets
Topic 4B: Applying Style Sheets to Multiple Pages
Lesson 5: Layers
Topic 5A: Creating Layers
Topic 5B: Using the Layers Panel
Topic 5C: Layer Styles
Topic 5D: Layers and Behaviors
Topic 5E: Inserting Rich Media Objects
Lesson 6: The History panel
Topic 6A: The History panel
Topic 6B: Recording Steps
Topic 6C: Saving Steps to the Commands Menu
Lesson 7: Browser Targeting and Code Tools
Topic 7A: Browser Compatibility
Topic 7B: Converting Pages to Earlier Versions
Topic 7C: Browser Checking
Topic 7D: Coding Tools
Lesson 8: Creating Forms
Topic 8A: Setting Up Forms
Topic 8B: Adding Form Elements
Topic 8C: Validating and Testing Forms