What is Dreamweaver

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53 lessons / 5 hours

Overview

NOTE: this course uses Bootstrap 3. Dreamweaver has recently updated to Bootstrap version 4. You can change it back to 3 using the ‘New Document > Bootstrap > Preferences'. Please do this before starting the course.

Some versions of Dreamweaver will require you to download the specific Bootstrap version you want to use and link it within the site. You can download Bootstrap 3 here: http://getbootstrap.com/docs/3.3/

Hi - my name is Dan and I’ll be leading you through this course on how to Make money building mobile friendly websites using Dreamweaver.

I built this course for the visual person, the right brained person. We won't hide from code but we'll use all the visual tools that makes Dreamweaver so amazing.

These are the skills you’ll need to become a professional web designer. You’ll learn how to make responsive websites in Dreamweaver as well as learning what to charge and how to manage a website project.

We cover everything you need to build your first website. From creating your first page through to uploading your website to the internet. During the course we’ll create a website for a mock creative agency - creating mobile and desktop versions. See our example here:

I’m a Dreamweaver Certified Instructor and an Adobe Certified Web Specialist.

With exercise files you can download and work along with me. At the end of each video I have a downloadable version of where we are in the process so you can compare your project with mine making it easy to see where you might have a problem.

I’ll be showing you how to work with Dreamweaver to easily create HTML & CSS websites. How to create mobile and tablet versions of your design and how to test your website on your phone.

I’ll be teaching you how to create navigation bars, how to work with responsive images and favicons.

We’ll work with Dreamweaver’s new Bootstrap integration to easily add carousels, tabbed menu’s and accordions. Even easier you’ll learn to impress clients by embedding videos, calendars, maps, event ticketing & social sharing options. 
 
 Know that I’ll be around to help - if you get lost you can message in the forum and together we’ll get you back on track.

Now it’s time to upgrade your skills, get that better job and impress your clients.

What are the requirements?

  • You'll need a copy of Dreamweaver CC 2015 or above. A free 30 day trial can be download from Adobe here.

  • No previous Dreamweaver or web design experience is necessary.

  • If you're not sure if this course is right for you. Email me what you’re trying to do and check if you’re on the right track.

What am I going to get from this course?

  • 60 lectures 3 hours of content!

  • Forum support from me. 

  • All the techniques used by professional website designers.

  • Ways to preview your designs straight to your mobile device.

  • Firm understanding of responsive web design.

  • Professional workflows and shortcuts. 

  • A wealth of other resources and websites to help your new career path.

What is the target audience?

  • YES: This course is for beginners. For people who prefer not to work in code. Aimed at people new to the world of web design. No previous Dreamweaver experience is necessary. People with knowledge of previous versions of Dreamweaver CC 2014 and below will also get great value from this course as the software has changed so much.

  • NO: This course is NOT suited to people experienced in using HTML & CSS. If you prefer to work in code only then this course isn’t right for you.

Course duration 5.5 hours + your own study.

Daniel Scott

Daniel Scott

Founder of Bring Your Own Laptop & Chief Instructor

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I discovered the world of design as an art student when I stumbled upon a lab full of green & blue iMac G3’s. My initial curiosity around using the computer to create ‘art’ developed into a full-blown passion, eventually leading me to become a digital designer and founder of Bring Your Own Laptop.

Sharing and teaching are a huge part of who I am. As a certified Adobe instructor, I've had the honor of winning multiple Adobe teaching awards at their annual MAX conference. I see Bring Your Own Laptop as the supportive community I wished for when I was first starting out and intimidated by design. Through teaching, I hope to bring others along for the ride and empower my students to bring their stories, labors of love, and art into the world.
True to my Kiwi roots, I've lived in many places, and currently, I reside in Ireland with my wife and kids.

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Transcript

Hi, my name is Dan,  and in this video we're gonna look at  where does Dreamweaver sit in the grand  scheme of web design. Okay, so there's, there's three main positions. There's, uh, the side, which is things like Muse or Webley,  and they are totally wy. Whig, uh, open the program, drag and drop  and hit export website. Very visual, okay, but not a lot of customization. If it's not built into the product, you can't do it.

Okay? Muse is amazing and I love it,  and I've built lots of sites in it,  but it has, it gets to a, you get  to your limit quite quickly, so no customization. Um, wherever here you've got full customization, okay? Full code, okay? Where it's for people who like to see in code, okay? Uh, I don't like this side of things.

I can dabble in it,  but this side of things is for, if you prefer working  with a sheet of kind of like text editor type stuff  where you are kind of working, yeah, working in code. Now, during, with the kind of straddles bit of both of them,  it has a bit of the visual stuff, okay? Some of the WY wig things where you can drag  and add things from a menu, um, but it produces the code  and you get to see the code and interact with the code. And that's where I sit. I'm a visual person. I like, I like to work with Dream Me,  because yeah, it allows me both best  of both worlds allows me to, um, do quite easy stuff  and get a website quite quickly up.

But it also allows me to go into the details and hack away  and change things and edit them. And that's, I guess for me, the perk of Dreamweaver. Now, you need to be clear when you're starting  with Dreamweaver, it's really not a design tool, okay? It's a production tool. So like building a house, uh, it is somebody else's drawn,  the architect's drawn the house and you're ready to go. Dreamweaver is where the builder turns up  and starts making things you can design as you go  through Dreamweaver, but it's the,  it's a clumsy way of doing it.

Uh, best way to do it is prototype. Um, most people will prototype in something like, uh,  something like Photoshop, okay? I've got a full course on how  to design a website in Photoshop. So you do all your work here in Photoshop and,  and once you get it signed off with a client, okay,  that's when you open up Dreamweaver  and get ready to start making things. Now, Dreamweaver is great at some things  and not great at other things. So if you are using Dreamweaver and you're building a site  and it's no more than a hundred  or so pages, it's perfect, okay?

But when you start getting into thousands of pages,  that's when you're gonna need something like a CMS rather  than building your own site, okay? CMS is slightly different, as in it's a pre-made site  that you install on your host  and you customize it to fit what you wanna do. Whereas what we're doing here in Dreamweaver is we're  building our own custom site from the ground up. I guess the big thing is a web designer,  and what you wanna know is that you gotta make clear  to your, uh, client  that when you are building a site in Dreamweaver  that a means come through you. You're all the web designer. If they need changes made  and updates done, they're gonna come through you.

Whereas say if you install a CMS  or a content management system,  that's fine. Um, you don't get as  Much control over what you can  and can't do in the website,  but it allows the client often a backend that they can log  to, sign up and adjust some of the pages, okay? The things that you allow them to adjust. Okay? So that's the big difference between using Dreamweaver  to get started or installing something like WordPress  or Drupal or Jumela, okay? To get started with the website.
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