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Dreamweaver Quick Start Series

Written by David A. Jardine

Monday, 11 September 2006

Dreamweaver Tutorial image OK, now you have your files setup, it's time to get familiar with Dreamweaver and HTML. Don't worry, this is less painful than it seems. Just follow the step-by-step tutorials and you'll be designing and laying out your site like a pro.

I've organized these tutorials in a sequential system as a Quick Start Guide. All you have to do is follow the steps and click the buttons I am clicking. Pretty simple.

For more advanced users, or for those interested, the Breakout Sessions expand on the basics covered in each lesson.

	Lesson 1: Setting Up Your Site (06:22 mins) Setting Up Dreamweaver to see your site files 'Files Menu' explained index.html files explained Click the video icon to the left to begin your tutorial
	Lesson 2: Interface Overview (07:38 mins) Properties Dialog Box explained Common Dreamweaver functions Basic Styles selections Click the video icon to the left to begin your tutorial Breakout Sessions Editing the <head> tag of your page
	Lesson 3: Copy Formatting (19:49 mins) Using your Notepad copy Using the Styles selector to format copy Bolding, italics and highlighting explained Demonstrations of all the above One common highlighter error you may encounter Click the video icon to the left to begin your tutorial Breakout Sessions: Click Here for Cascading Style Sheets Tutorials
	Lesson 4: Bullets and Lists (06:30 mins) Using the Bullets option in the Properties box Paragraph formatting for spacing Applying copy formatting READ your copy! Click the video icon to the left to begin your tutorial Lesson 4b: Bullets and Lists (08:51 mins) Numbered lists Creating a NESTED list CLICK HERE to begin your tutorial
	Lesson 5: Tables Overview (14:58 mins) Using the Tables option in the Properties box Creating tables with rows and columns Creating thin borders - not your usual way Using headers Using tables to display vertical lists Using columns to layout information Applying styles to tables and cells Click the video icon to the left to begin your tutorial Breakout Sessions: Basic introduction to tables Creating rounded corner tables (johnson boxes)
	Lesson 6: Testimonials (07:19 mins) The fastest way to layout a testimonial. Period. With practise you can do this in under 7 seconds! Click the video icon to the left to begin your tutorial Breakout Sessions: Rounded Corner Johnson Boxes Easy CSS Testimonial Boxes
	Lesson 7: The Guarantee (11:32 mins) Guarantee formatting with CSS Using the supplied testimonial box css Click the video icon to the left to begin your tutorial Breakout Sessions: Easy CSS Testimonial Boxes
	Lesson 8: Ordering Links (14:47 mins) Working with PayPal order links Using your own order button (custom) Inserting the code in your page Click the video icon to the left to begin your tutorial Breakout Sessions: Inserting your ClickBank order link Inserting your 1shoppingcart.com order link Additional Links Tutorials Creating basic text-based links Creating an image link Creating a basic EMAIL link ADVANCED email links
	Lesson 9: Signing Off (11:56 mins) Your signature image and signoff Working with the PostScript (P.S.) Inserting text links to ordering. Click the video icon to the left to begin your tutorial

NB: If you are using Internet Explorer, you will have to click inside the
white area in the new popup window to play the file.

Software Download Links:

Dreamweaver 8 : http://www.adobe.com/products/dreamweaver/
Photoshop CS2 : http://www.adobe.com/products/photoshop/
Adobe Reader: http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep2.html
Winzip: http://www.winzip.com/
FileZilla: http://filezilla.sourceforge.net/
Firefox: http://www.mozilla.com/firefox/
Thunderbird: http://www.mozilla.com/thunderbird/
ACDSee: http://www.acdsee.com/

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razor130 said:

Hello David,

I joined awile back but due to a stupid drunk driver putting me
in the Hospital, I am just now being able to really start
enjoying your Videos.

So far all I can say is Great!... I am enjoying being able to learn this way. I bought a dreamweaver book awhile back. Let me say that I did skim the Table of contents, skimmed the first few chapters.

Now it's very dusty! I am glad to be learning from ya!

Thanks

Mke

PS. Like the re-vamp of your whole site. Looks and feels better.
Keep it up!... smilies/wink.gif

May 10, 2007

D.Jardine said:

Thanks Mike, hang in there mate! All of this stuff is available to you and we aren't going anywhere so take your time and you'll breeze through it! Let mek now how you progress, and stay away form drunk drivers! smilies/cool.gif

June 02, 2007

Lois said:

Hi David, I just joined as a platinum member and I'm going through the videos now. (There're great by the way.) Just one question: Is there any way to pause them? I've been interrupted several times and usually have to cancel out and go back to the very beginning. As you can imagine, this gets to be time consuming. If you can tell me how to pause the videos, that would be a tremendous help.

Keep up the great work!
Thanks,
Lois

September 23, 2007

Lois said:

Please disregard my earlier comment. My monitor did not support the higher resolution, but when I used a different computer and changed the resolution, I was able to see the controls at the bottom that allowed me to pause.

Thanks again.

September 24, 2007

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