Dreamweaver 8:
Basic (ACE Edition)

Topic-Level Outline

Days: 1

Prerequisites: Windows 2000: Basic or Windows XP: Basic or equivalent experience

Unit 1 : Getting started

Topic A: 0 Internet basics

A-1: Discussing the Web and HTML

Topic B: 0 The Dreamweaver workspace

B-1: Identifying Dreamweaver interface components

B-2: Exploring panel groups

B-3: Working with the Property inspector

Topic C: 0 Editing pages

C-1: Discussing Web page elements

C-2: Inserting and editing text

C-3: Formatting text

C-4: Adding an image

C-5: Previewing a page in a browser

Topic D: 0 HTML basics

D-1: Viewing HTML

Unit 2 : Web sites and pages

Topic A: 0 Creating a Web site

A-1: Defining a site

Topic B: 0 Creating Web pages

B-1: Creating and titling Web pages

B-2: Importing text

B-3: Setting page properties

B-4: Setting text color

Unit 3 : Working with text

Topic A: 0 Text basics

A-1: Changing line breaks to paragraph breaks

A-2: Inserting special characters and spaces

Topic B: 0 Structural formatting

B-1: Applying structural tags

B-2: Creating lists

Topic C: 0 Cascading Style Sheets

C-1: Discussing style sheets

C-2: Creating and attaching an external style sheet

C-3: Defining element styles

C-4: Creating class styles

C-5: Creating a pseudo-element style

Unit 4 : Tables

Topic A: 0 Create tables

A-1: Creating a table

A-2: Creating a nested table

Topic B: 0 Table structure and formatting

B-1: Formatting rows

B-2: Adding columns and rows and formatting cells

Topic C: 0 Column widths and cell properties

C-1: Working with fixed and variable widths

C-2: Customizing cell properties

Topic D: 0 Layout tables

D-1: Creating a layout table

D-2: Working with layout cells

D-3: Adding content to a layout table

Unit 5 : Images

Topic A: 0 Image formats and tags

A-1: Discussing image formats

A-2: Inserting images

A-3: Modifying image properties

Topic B: 0 Background images

B-1: Applying a background image

B-2: Resizing images

Unit 6 : Links

Topic A: 0 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

Topic B: 0 Image maps

B-1: Creating an image map

Topic C: 0 CSS link formatting

C-1: Formatting links

Unit 7 : Publishing

Topic A: 0 Site checking

A-1: Observing a site map

A-2: Checking page size and download time

A-3: Checking links

A-4: Validating code

Topic B: 0 Web site publishing

B-1: Connecting to a server using secure FTP

B-2: Uploading a site