Communications & Marketing Web Users Group
Macromedia Dreamweaver Workshop – May 31, 2000
Eamonn Crowley-Edge, Instructor

1. Overview of the Workshop

1. What you will learn to create web sites using the Dreamweaver program
2. Text, image, table, links, backgrounds, layers, java rollovers, pop‑up windows, and quick keys

2. HTML Basics

1. HTML tags and taking code from existing sites

3. Tour of Dreamweaver

1. Menus and palettes

4. Creating and Modifying an HTML page

1. Creating and modifying a new web page
2. Creating and Manipulating Text

   i.      Copy and paste, size and font, color, number and point lists,
   line breaks, and indenting

3. Creating Tables

   i.      Inserting, modifying, adding backgrounds and borders

4. Images

   i.      Inserting, moving, and, word‑wrapping

5. Creating Links

   i.      Text and image links, email links, image maps, and hyperlinks

4. Java Rollovers (Image Swapping), Pop‑up messages, Jump menus

6. Uploading to Remote Server

1. Inserting these behaviors and uploading your page

7. Helpful Web sites

1. http://www.dreamweaver.com
   - The Official Dreamweaver Resource page.  You can download a free 30-day trial copy of Dreamweaver here.

2. http://www.idest.com/dreamweaver/
   - Dreamweaver, Etc., This Web site is based on the help book, The Dreamweaver Bible

3. http://html.about.com/compute/html/msubdreamweaver.htm
   - About.com’s guide to using Dreamweaver

4. http://www.bc.edu/bc_org/tvp/ars/documentation/dreamweaver/dreamweaver_basics.shtml - Boston College’s online Dreamweaver 2 tutorial

5. http://www.useit.com - Not Dreamweaver specific, but important nonetheless.  This is Jakob Nielsen’s “Web Usability” Web site.  It details the do’s and don’ts of Web development.