Dreamweaver II: Web Standards- Content, Presentation, and Behaviors

This course will focus on the next level Dreamweaver usage for a web standards compliant Web site Development. We cover topics such as text styling, element positioning, as well as CSS Sprites, floats, D.O.M. or Document Object Model, clearing floats, Reset Style sheets, S.E.O. or search engine optimization, all while keeping a user centered design.

Exploring both, the Adobe Spry JavaScript Framework and jQuery JavaScript Frameworks, we will add some interactive elements to your static web pages while maintaining accessibility with progressive enhancement strategies.  You will be surprised by the ease of use that results from employing such as JavaScript libraries in the WYSIWYG environment of Dreamweaver.

Topic include: On day one, we will have a fast-paced review of (X)HTML in Dreamweaver. The main focus of this course is on Clean Code, Advanced CSS and JavaScript basics 101 using a JavaScript Library. Also included is  Best Practice for web design, Web Standards, Section 508 – accessibility  checklists, CSS Sprites, creating a style guide, Creating Print only style sheet and a Mobile only style sheet,  Form Styling , client-side form validation, Creating page layouts without tables, many uses of unordered lists as navigation bars, including pop out menus, CSS pseudo class.  Spry and jQuery Dynamic animation effects, Spry and jQuery widgets/components (i.e. tab panels, menus, and accordion panel.) cover a fast pace review of (X)HTML  with CSS.