About this Course

Adobe Dreamweaver offers the candidate the oppurtunity to acquire an understanding of key web publishing concepts and the core skills required to design, create, upload and maintain a static website without having to commit time and valuable resources to a professional-level web design programme.

This module enables the candidate to understand key web publishing concepts and to create, upload and maintain  a web site.

The candidate shall be able to :

• Understand key web concepts and terms
• Know about the basic principles of HTML and use common HTML mark-up tags to modify the layput of a web page
• Use a web authoring application to design and format web pages, format text and work with hyperlinks and tables
• Recognise and use common web image formats and create forms in a web page 
• Understand and use cascading style sheets
• Prepare web pages for publishing to a web server

Course Outline : 

Section 1 : Understanding Web Concepts
• Web Concepts
• Key Terms

Section 2 : Building a Website
• Advantage of Having a Website 
• Process of Getting a Website 
• Search Engine Optimization
• Choosing Appropriate Web Elements
• Legal issues

Section 3 : Understanding HTML
• Fundamentals of HTML
• Using HTML
• Viewing Web Page Source 
• Using Markup Tags to Sturucture Web Page
• Using Markup Tags to Develop Web Page

Section 4 : Planning for Website
• Design
• Website Planning and Design Techniques
• Good Practice in Font Selection

Section 5 : Introduction to Dreamweaver and Using Dreamweaver
• Introduction to Dreamweaver
• Using Dreamweaver
• File Management
• Creating and Saving New Web Page
• Creating New Web Page Based on Template
• Adding and Editing Descriptive Page Title
• Changing Between Source Code and Design View
• Enhancing Productivity
• Setting Basic Preferences
• Using Help Function

Section 6 : Working with Type, Page Setting
• Working with Text
• Insert, Editing and Deleting Text
• Understanding and Using Relative Font Size
• Applying text Formatting
• Working with Paragraph
• Setting Paragraph Properties
• Inserting and Removing Paragraph and Line Breaks
• Working with Lists
• Page Formatting
• Setting Page Margins
• Adding Page Background

Section 7 : Working with Hyperlink and Hyperlink setting
• Hyperlinks
• Understanding Hyperlinks
• Absolute and Relative Links
• Working with Text and Image Hyperlinks
• Adding Email Hyperlink 
• Setting Hyperlink Colours
• Defining Target
• Setting Anchor Links
• Image Maps

Section 8 : Understanding Tables
• Tables
• Inserting and Deleting Tables 
• Inserting and Deleting Rows and Columns
• Merging and Splitting Cells
• Modify Table Properties
• Layout Table

Section 9 : Formats
• Graphical Objectives
• Graphic File Formats
• Inserting and Deleting Image
• Setting Image Properties
• Aligning Images

Section 10 : Working with HTML5
• Understanding Basic HTML5
• HTML5 Editors
• HTML5 Elements
• HTML5 Attributes
• HTML5 Headings
• HTML5 Paragraph
• HTML5 Formatting
• HTML5 Links
• HTML5 Head
• HTML5 CSS
• HTML5 Image
• HTML5 Tables
• HTML5 List
• HTML5 Block
• HTML5 Layout

Section 11 : Understanding Forms
• Forms 
• Inserting Forms
• Adding Form Elements
• Adding Submit and Reset Buttons
• Setting Out Forms Using Tables
• Setting Form Actions

Section 12 : Working with Cascading Style Sheet (CSS)
• Automation 
• CSS Concepts
• Understanding CSS Use and Benefits
• Understanding CSS Rule Structure Using CSS and Good Practice in Webpage Content

Section 13 : Using CSS and Good Practice in Webpage Content
• Using CSS
• Creating and Saving New CSS
• Creating and Modifying CSS Rules
• Attaching External CSS
• Reviewing Design 
• Identify and Fix Broken Links
• Good Practice in Web Page Contents 
• Spell Check

Section 14 : Publishing Webpage
• Publishing Web Page 
• Understanding Process of Uploading and Downloading 
• Upload a Website

Course Duration : 24 Hours

Target Audience

Anyone who has to create dynamic web pages in a visual development environment, using point-and-click methods. 

Pre-requisites

Need to possess basic PC knowledge

Certification

Successful trainees will receive the internationally recognized ICDL Certificate upon completion of the course.This certificate is admonistered by ICDL Singapore. This is a joint certification between WDA and ICDL Singapore. Students must take a 45 min online assessment at the end of the course. 

Course Pathway

Any other ICDL courses.