Key details

Dreamweaver training course for beginners, teaching key techniques for creating stunning new websites and maintaining existing websites.

Adobe Dreamweaver gives you faster, easier ways to design, code and publish websites and web applications that look amazing on any size screen.

Our Introduction to Dreamweaver course introduces the powerful capabilities of Dreamweaver. You learn how to:

• Quickly and easily design and build a professional website.
• Use CSS to layout and manage your website.
• Create, edit and optimise graphics to incorporate into your website design.
• Connect your website to the Internet, and upload and maintain your website files.

This course is ideal for new and novice website designers.

Introduction to Dreamweaver training is arranged on-request, i.e. one-to-one training or a ‘closed course’ for your group. Your training can be tailored to take into account any existing knowledge you have, and the work you’re going to be doing.

In-class or online

This course is available in-class at eight centres or live online.

Accredited Dreamweaver training

Armada is an Adobe Authorised Training Centre (AATC), accredited to provide Dreamweaver training.

Dreamweaver training is hosted by Adobe Certified Instructors with vast professional website development experience. See Expert trainers.

How will I learn?

Dreamweaver training is hands-on and practical. You learn by creating your own fully functioning website from scratch, covering all related topics along the way.

There is plenty of time to ask questions, and you can take away all the files you create.

Training guide and certificate

Course delegates receive:

• A comprehensive training guide for Dreamweaver, to refer to throughout the course, and to use as a refresher afterwards.
• An e-certificate confirming successful completion of an Adobe‑accredited Dreamweaver training course. Click here to see an example of the certificate you receive.

After course support

Following Dreamweaver training, delegates are entitled to 30 days’ email support from their Dreamweaver trainer to help with any post-course issues. For further details, see Support.

Prerequisites

No prior Adobe Dreamweaver knowledge is necessary.

Dreamweaver version

Training can be based on any version of Dreamweaver to suit you.

General information

Course times

Standard course times are 9.30am–4.30pm.

As we’d be hosting this as a ‘closed course’ for you/your group, there’s usually flexibility to change these times to suit you, e.g. start or end 30 minutes earlier or later.

Payment

Payment for Dreamweaver training can be made by:

• Bank transfer. Please call 01527 834783 for our bank details.
• Card. All major credit and debit cards accepted. Payment can be made securely online or over the phone. Card payments are processed by Stripe. Armada doesn’t record or store your card details.

Purchase orders

We accept purchase orders from UK-registered companies and public sector organisations.

Accommodation

See Accommodation local to our training centres.

Cancellations and postponements

If an on-request Introduction to Dreamweaver course booking is cancelled giving less than 20 working days’ notice, a cancellation fee is payable. View cancellation terms.

If an on-request Introduction to Dreamweaver course booking is postponed giving less than 20 working days’ notice, a postponement fee is payable. View postponement terms.

Terms and conditions

Expert trainers

Introduction to Dreamweaver training courses are hosted by:

• Andrew Moreton
• Marek Mularczyk

Andrew Moreton

Andrew is a highly-experienced instructor with expert knowledge of InDesign and Photoshop.

He’s also a practicing web developer with expert knowledge of Dreamweaver, WordPress and HTML5 and CSS3 coding.

Andrew has 25+ years’ experience in graphic design, electronic publishing and website design and development, and he’s been hosting courses in these topics for 20+ years.

Marek Mularczyk

Marek is an Adobe Design, Video and Motion Specialist, and an Adobe Certified Instructor (ACI).

Voted as one of top 10 Adobe Certified Instructors in the world, Marek has over 15 years’ experience as an animator and photo/video editor, and has published numerous books on these topics.

As an instructor, Marek has trained a wide range of blue-chip clients including Lloyds, Barclays, HS2, Lululemon, Asos, Boohoo, Sony, Samsung, and many more.

Prior to focusing on training, Marek worked as a professional photographer for over 12 years. Photography remains his passion, and in his spare time he travels Europe in search of that perfect picture.

Course content

Introducing Dreamweaver

• The Dreamweaver interface
• Customising the Dreamweaver workspace
• Setting up preview in web browsers
• Opening web pages

HTML and CSS basics

• Basics of HTML
• Basics of CSS
• Creating an HTML page from scratch
• DocType explained
• Styling a page with HTML

Working with CSS

• Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) explained
• Introduction to CSS3 new features
• Creating a page with CSS
• Customising the layout of a web page
• Adding content

Working with images

• Using images on a Web Page
• Floating images and text around them
• Resizing images
• Modifying images with Dreamweaver
• Modifying images with Photoshop
• Adjusting images’ brightness and contrast
• Sharpening images with Dreamweaver

Working with video

• HTML5 video explained
• Placing HTML5 video on a page
• Adding alternate video formats

Formatting pages with CSS

• Creating a stylesheet
• Formatting text with CSS
• New CSS designer
• Creating new CSS rules
• Creating new CSS classes
• Cascading explained
• Customising CSS rules
• Exporting CSS rules to external stylesheet
• Attaching external stylesheet

Incorporating navigation

• Navigation as part of usability
• Creating internal links
• Creating external links
• Linking to files
• Email links
• Targeted links (named anchors)
• Navigation bars

Working with templates

• How templates work
• Creating a template
• Creating editable regions within template
• New pages from a template
• Changing templates
• Updating a site

Publishing your Website

• Testing your web pages
• Setting up website for remote connection
• Connecting to a remote site
• Uploading files to a web server
• Synchronising files with a remote server

Live online training

Online training lets you participate in a live Dreamweaver course from your place of work or home.

We do everything possible to make your online training experience as close as possible to actually being in the classroom. You can:

• See and hear our trainer, and the other delegates participating in the course…
  
• Watch our trainer demonstrate techniques in Dreamweaver.
• Interact by speaking, or using chat.
• Share your screen with our trainer, and allow them to take control to explain something.

Like our in-class courses, online Introduction to Dreamweaver courses…

• Are presented by Adobe Certified Instructors.
• Give you plenty of opportunity to carry out assisted, practical exercises using Dreamweaver.
• Offer 30 days’ email support from your trainer.

All you need is an Internet-connected computer with…

• Dreamweaver installed. If you don’t have access to Dreamweaver, we can usually send you a link to fully-functional trial software to download and install.
• A webcam and audio capability. If your computer running Dreamweaver doesn’t have these, you can use a second device, such as another computer or tablet. See Hardware recommendations for live online training for further details.

If there’s anything you’re not sure about we’ll do our best to help you. We won’t, however, be able to assist with your Dreamweaver installation.

We provide everything else…

• Links to download the files, resources, etc. you’ll use in your course.
• A training guide. For most courses, you can choose from a printed copy that we post to you, or a PDF.

In the week before your course, we’ll send you an email containing everything you need to prepare for and participate in the training. Then, a couple of days before your course, we’ll give you a courtesy call to make sure you have everything in place and answer any questions you may have.

Please note that we are not able to record scheduled online courses for privacy reasons.

When you attend live online training, you’re participating in a real course, hosted by a real trainer, in real time