Outline

Offered by Networked Information Services

Instructor: Ron Yeany: ryeany@bu.edu
Prerequisites: Dreamweaver: Managing Files (or equivalent knowledge).

2 hours (45 minutes lecture, 65 minutes hands-on exercises, 10-minute break)

Throughout the course of this tutorial, features that are new to Dreamweaver MX or that operate differently than they did in Dreamweaver 4 are indicated by the Dreamweaver MX icon.

Hands-on exercise: Preparing the classroom environment (10 minutes)

1. Define a connection to your practice site.
2. Download practice files from your site.

Libraries (15 minutes)

1. Create a library item.
2. Insert a library item on your page.
3. Edit a library item.
4. Update all instances of a library item.
5. Detach a library item.

Hands-on exercise: Working with library items (15 minutes)

1. Create a library item for your site's page signature.
2. Add the auto-updating time/date stamp in your page signature.
3. Insert the library item on your page.
4. Edit the master library item to add an e-mail link.
5. Allow Dreamweaver to automatically update all instances of your library item.
6. Synchronize and review your site.

Templates (20 minutes)

1. Create a template from an existing document.
2. Create a template from a new/blank page.
3. Define editable regions in a template.
4. Apply a template to an unformatted page.
5. Edit a template.
6. Detach a template.

Break (10 minutes)

Hands-on exercise: Working with templates (25 minutes)

1. Open an existing document formatted with your page banner, navigation menu, and graphics.
2. Save as a template.
3. Define your editable regions in your master template: headline, subhead, and body content.
4. Save your template.
5. Create a new from template document and add some text to the editable regions.
6. Open an existing document that is unformatted and apply your template to this page.

Hands-on exercise: Working with templates and library items together (15 minutes)

1. Insert a library item into a template.
2. Edit the library item within the template.
3. Edit the template which contains the library item.

Site management strategies (10 minutes)

1. Multiple developers working on the same site.
2. Developers working from multiple locations.
3. Check In / Check Out system in Dreamweaver.

Supplemental Material: Server-Side Includes

This material is not covered in class but is included here for your reference.

1. Overview of SSI.
2. Creating and saving an SSI file.
3. Embedding an SSI file in your Web page.
4. Saving your Web page with the .shtml file extension.
5. Editing your SSI files in Dreamweaver.