Web Design Basics Using Dreamweaver
DM 70 — Spring 2007
Online Class section 51631
Francine Van Meter, Instructor

NOTICE TO REGISTERED STUDENTS:

WebCT
Registered students may login beginning Monday, February 5, 2007. Click on the WebCT button above, and click on "Registered Students: Click Here to look up your WebCT username and password."

* * * Remember, access will begin 2/5/07 * * *

NOTE: If you have added the class AFTER the term begins, WebCT accounts take 24 hours to create from the time you turn in the Add Slip to Admissions and Records or when I confirm your request to add via email. To add the class via email, send me an email which includes:

Name, Student ID number, Name of Course, Section number, and specific statement that you want to enroll.

If you are already on campus taking a course, come by my office, room 1095 for an ADD slip. It's in the Teaching & Learning Center downstairs, behind the Library.

Course Information

This is an introductory Dreamweaver course taught entirely online. Students use Dreamweaver to combine text and graphics to create, edit and manage web sites. Students must have foundational knowledge of HTML and be able to create and edit vector-based (Illustrator or equivalent) and bitmapped graphics (Photoshop or equivalent). Students must have access to a computer with Internet access. See hardware/software requirements below.

PreReqs

DM 160: Introduction to HTML (You must have basic foundational knowledge of HTML.)
DM 1 (You must be able to use Photoshop or an equivalent program.)

Topics

What we will cover:

  1. Dreamweaver basics:
    Review HTML, file organization, Dreamweaver help; defining sites; type in DW
  2. Working with graphics:
    Optimizing images, placing graphics, adding Flash elements, view/edit HTML, CSS panel, creating rollover images
  3. Links
    Hypertext links, graphic links, email links, image maps
  4. Page Design
    Create tables, modify tables, tracing image, creating a sitemap
  5. CSS & Forms; Design concepts
  6. Javascript behaviors
    Multiple state rollovers, browser sniffers
  7. Slicing
    Creating comps in Photoshop
  8. Templates & Libraries

On-campus and/or online lab hours

  1. Regular class attendance (defined by online participation) is required. Active participation in the course includes contributions to the discussion board on a weekly basis in addition to submitting weekly assignments.
  2. The online lab is defined as a minimum of 3 hours per week work in Dreamweaver.

Required Textbook or Online Library

I'm providing an opportunity for students to choose the type of support material they want to use for the course, (option 1) textbook, or (option 2) an online video training library.

OPTION 1 — Textbook plus CD with exercise files and video tutorials

Dreamweaver 8
Hands-on Training
Garo Green with Lynda Weinman
You can order online through any online bookstore, purchase at the Cabrillo Bookstore, or at:
Lynda.com price

ISBN 0-321-293894
The book sells for $35.95

OPTION 2 — Online video resources

Lynda.com Online Training Library
Dreamweaver 8 Essential Training is a tutorial including over 100 QuickTime videos designed for beginning to intermediate Dreamweaver users. It requires your instructor signs you up and you will be billed by the publisher for $38.95. Access to the training library will include additional tutorials on Photoshop and Flash for the spring term.
Requests to use the video library must be made by Thursday, February 8, 2007. Send me an email.

For a video preview of Dreamweaver 8 features, go to Lynda.com

Hardware and Software Requirements

This course will be taught using a combination of lessons developed in both Dreamweaver MX2004 and the latest release, Dreamweaver 8. Either version of the software is sufficient for this course. The user interface has not changed that much. You can download a 30 day trial version of the software from the Macromedia website at www.macromedia.com/software/dreamweaver. The Computer Technology Center at both the Aptos and Watsonville campus has computers for students to do their assignments on.

You will need regular access to a computer with a CD drive and one of the following browsers. Be sure you are using a supported browser and your browser settings are correct for WebCT, our course shell. Browser tune-up page.

  • Mozilla Firefox, 1.5+
  • Internet Explorer 6.0+
  • Safari 1.2+

The QuickTime video plug-in is used Quicktime Plugin

Adobe Acrobat reader is used to open PDF files Acrobat Reader

Instructor Information

Francine Van Meter
831.479.6191
My contact information.

Once the semester begins: All email should be done via the WebCT course hub once class begins

Office hours: Monday–Thursday 8am–5pm

Office:1095A