2 Dreamweaver Tutorials from Durham University

Here are 2 Dreamweaver Tutorials, from Durham University. The first one is an introductory Dreamweaver tutorial, and it will show you the basics of using Dreamweaver to create a web page and insert images, links and tables into it. It also introduces you to Dreamweaver’s Site Management tools. The second on is a more advanced Dreamweaver tutorial, titled “Further Dreamweaver”. It covers web  site navigation methods, layouts, tables, behaviors, and adding multimedia and video to your web pages.


Introduction to Dreamweaver Tutorial

This introductory Dreamweaver tutorial takes you through the basic steps of using Dreamweaver to create web pages. It teaches you how to create a web site using Dreamweaver’s site management tools, and how to insert images, links and tables into web pages using HTML. (26 pages, 443kb, pdf format)

Contents of Introduction to Dreamweaver Tutorial:
1   Getting started
2   Site management 
  2.1 Restricting access to your pages 
3   Creating a new folder
4   Creating a new page
  4.1 Entering text
  4.2 Adding objects
  4.3 Page Title
  4.4 Saving and testing your page
5   Inserting images
  5.1 Editing images 
6   Adding links within the page, to other pages and to files
  6.1 Linking within the page
7   Tables
  7.1 Sorting tables
8   Linking to other resources
9   HTML – editing in Code View
  9.1 Adding text 
  9.2 Creating lists 
  9.3 Linking to sites
  9.4 Adding comments
  9.5 Roundtrip HTML overview
  9.6 Cleaning up HTML
  9.7 Clean up Word HTML
10 Putting mathematical formulae on the WWW 
11 Spelling 
12 Using Help in Dreamweaver 
13 Closing Dreamweaver 
14 Further information 
15 Testing your website for accessibility 
  15.1 To run an accessibility report on a current document 
  15.2 Inserting accessible media objects to a new document


Further Dreamweaver Tutorial

This more advanced Dreamweaver tutorial shows you how to create navigation among web pages, including navigation bars and jump menus. It also gives you examples of several methods of layout using tables, layers, and frames, and teaches you more advanced uses of Dreamweaver’s Site Management. (33 pages, 321kb, pdf format)

Contents of Further Dreamweaver Tutorial:
1   Further Site Management 
  1.1 Defining a site 
  1.2 Working with files in the Site panel 
    1.2.1 To add a new folder to a site
    1.2.2 To add a new file to a site
    1.2.3 To rename a file or folder in a site
  1.3 Transferring files to a remote server
    1.3.1 Associating a remote server with a local site
  1.4 Using Check In/Check Out
    1.4.1 Checking files out
    1.4.2 Checking files in
    1.4.3 Synchronizing files
    1.4.4 Design notes 
    1.4.5 Using reports 
  1.5 Getting and putting files
    1.5.1 To get files from a remote server
    1.5.2 To put files on the remote server
2   Layout 
  2.1 Layout tables and Cells
    2.1.1 Drawing layout tables and cells
    2.1.2 Layout cells
    2.1.3 Layout tables
    2.1.4 Resizing layout cells and tables
  2.2 Layers
    2.2.1 Creating layers
3   Navigation
  3.1 Adding a Navigation Bar
    3.1.1 Inserting a navigation bar
  3.2 Jump menu
    3.2.1 To create a jump menu
4   Templates
  4.1 Introduction to templates
  4.2 Creating and editing templates
  4.3 Defining editable regions in a template
    4.3.1 Making new editable regions
    4.3.2 Changing an editable region to a locked region
  4.4 Creating documents based on templates
    4.4.1 To create a new document based on a template
    4.4.2 To apply a template to an existing document
  4.5 Updating the site
5   Frames
  5.1 What are frames?
  5.2 When do I use frames?
  5.3 Inserting a predefined frameset 
  5.4 Frames and Accessibility Attributes 
  5.5 Naming frames
  5.6 Selecting and saving the frameset
  5.7 Adding content to frames
  5.8 Adding existing material to a frame
  5.9 Using links in one frame to control the content of another frame
  5.10 Page properties
  5.11 Saving files and a frameset to preview
    5.11.1 To save a frameset file
    5.11.2 To save a document that appears in a frame
    5.11.3 To save all files associated with a set of frames
  5.12 Testing your frames
  5.13 Nested frames
  5.14 Deleting frames
6   Behaviours 
  6.1 Behavior inspector
  6.2 Applying a behavior
    6.2.1 To attach a behavior
7   Adding video and media to web pages
  7.1 Video
    7.1.1 Streamed video
    7.1.2 Compression (codecs)
    7.1.3 Software
    7.1.4 Accessibility 
  7.2 Copyright
  7.3 Audio
  7.4 Further information on video and audio 
8   Assets, Library and History panel
  8.1 The Assets panel and Library items
    8.1.1 Adding a Library item 
  8.2 Using the History palette