DreamWeaver: Basic MacroMedia Dreamweaver for Educators: The Basics Macromedia Dreamweaver MX 2004 is a powerful Web editor that gives you the tools to build a communication and interactive site for classroom use with ease. In this workshop you will cover the basics of the program using Dreamweaver MX 2004. Topics include the following: editing page properties, meta tags, text editing, spell checking, inserting images, browser preview, page links, and inserting objects.
DreamWeaver MX 2004: Basic
Reference links
Buddy2 – http://www.buddyproject.org
Buddy Teaching and Learning Center – http://www.btlc.org
Designing web sites - http://www.tammypayton.net/courses/design/
Free web development resources – http://www.bravenet.com
HTML help - http://resources.bravenet.com/quickref/html/
Preview your web site at Buddy Central - http://www.buddycentral.org/
What do you already know? What are your expectations?
What is good web design? (visit this page )
view evaluation rubric for web sites
Looking at other school sites (visit this page )
Deciding on your site content (visit this page )
Know your working environment
Setting your site preferences
Select the color scheme for your site by attaching CSS
Setting up your navigation links
Edit page properties and add meta tags
Review text editing, spell checking & line breaks
Selecting, editing and inserting objects and linking pages: images & tables
how to save a graphic (visit this page )
how to find a graphic (visit this page )
Checking links and fixing broken links
Browser preview
File naming conventions & Bibliography
Suggested Bibliography
Castro, E. HTML for the World Wide Web 5th edition.
Peachpit press: Indianapolis, IN, 2003.
Castor, E. XML for the Word Wide Web.
Peachpit press: Indianapolis, IN, 2001.
Green, C. Macromedia DreamWeaver MX 2004: Hands-on training.
Peachpit press: Indianapolis, IN, 2003.
Negrino, T. and Dori Smith. JavaScript for the World Wide Web 5th edition.
Peachpit press: Indianapolis, IN, 2004.
