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Dreamweaver MX - Advanced Training Course

About this Course

Dreamweaver MX - Advanced is the latest in a series of VTC training courses on Dreamweaver MX created by VTC master author Mark Fletcher. Below is a summary of the major topics covered in this title.

Separating content from its presentation using CSS

Many developers have realized that creating multiple versions of non standard code and littering pages with presentation markup such as the infamous <font> tag is both costly and in the long term unsustainable. So in this title we have dedicated 5 whole chapters demonstrating how content can be separated from its presentation using CSS.

Dreamweaver MX Coding tools

Although Dreamweaver MX has excellent tools that enable users to design web sites visually, coming from a coding background I still strongly believe that to create web sites properly, you have to be able to interpret markup code that Dreamweaver generates. So in this title there are over 20 tutorials that not only demonstrate how take advantage of the excellent coding tools that were introduced in Dreamweaver MX but also explain the fundamental principals behind topics such as constructing semantic markup, Doc Type Switching and why you should be coding your pages using XHTML rather than HTML

Dreamweaver MX - Templates

Having completed the first title in the VTC Dreamweaver MX series: Dreamweaver MX - Fundamentals many customers emailed me asking why there was no mention of Dreamweaver MX templates? The standard answer I gave was that because Dreamweaver's templating tools had changed so much from Dreamweaver version 4 to Dreamweaver MX I wanted to be able to cover these in a greater amount of detail than would of been possible on the Fundamentals title. So in Dreamweaver MX - Advanced, as promised there are two whole chapters consisting of over 30 tutorials that cover Dreamweaver templates, in both Dreamweaver MX and also Macromedia Contribute.

Accessibility

The aim of every web developer should be to create web sites that are accessible to everyone irrespective of the device or user agent a site visitor may be using. This chapter not only demonstrates how to make your pages more accessible, it also lets you hear how web pages are read using IBM's voice browser Home Page Reader. In many ways this chapter was probably the most difficult and yet most rewarding in the whole of the title to develop.

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