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Designing Web Sites from Photoshop to Dreamweaver

Designing Web Sites from Photoshop to Dreamweaver

with Sue Jenkins

 


This course teaches web design beginners how to turn their design in Photoshop into a fully functioning web site in Dreamweaver. Sue Jenkins shows how to create mockups, slice, and optimize web graphics, and build a site using the Dreamweaver HTML and CSS templates. The course also covers how to customize HTML and CSS to style and position content, test and validate code, and use FTP to transfer finished site files to a host server. Postlaunch site maintenance is also discussed so that designers can keep their web sites up to date. Exercise files are included with the course.
Topics include:
  • Setting up the Photoshop and Dreamweaver workspaces
  • Planning a site and defining site goals
  • Mocking up the layout and navigation
  • Deciding on fonts and colors
  • Styling the header, main content, sidebar, and footer
  • Optimizing web graphics
  • Building page structure with divs
  • Building menus
  • Adding metadata and externalizing CSS
  • Creating templates with editable regions
  • Creating template-based pages and adding content
  • Inserting form fields
  • Adding SEO, metadata, and accessibility markup
  • Testing, validating, and publishing projects

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author
Sue Jenkins
subject
Web, Web Design
software
Dreamweaver CS4, CS5, CS5.5, Photoshop CS4, CS5
level
Beginner
duration
3h 4m
released
Mar 06, 2012

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Sue Jenkins

Sue Jenkins

Sue Jenkins is an award-winning software instructor, Adobe Certified Instructor /Adobe Certified Instructor, fine art photographer, and owner/creative director of Luckychair.com, a full-service web and graphic design studio serving businesses across the U.S. since 1998. She is the author of several For Dummies instructional books on web design, Dreamweaver, Illustrator, and Photoshop, including Web Design All-in-One For Dummies (Wiley) and Smashing Photoshop CS5: 100 Professional Techniques (Wiley/SmashingMagazine). In addition, Sue is a part-time instructor at Noble Desktop in New York City, teaching courses in Photoshop, Illustrator, and Dreamweaver, as well as an assistant professor of graphic design at Marywood University in northeastern PA. For questions, tips, and fun ideas, follow her on Facebook, Tumblr, and Twitter.
Course Title   Level   Duration   Released  
Designing Web Sites from Photoshop to Dreamweaver Beginner 3h 4m 03/2012  {8}

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