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How to edit CSS using Dreamweaver 2015?
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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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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
Founder of Bring Your Own Laptop & Chief Instructor
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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This is called your tag selector. I can click on H one and it doesn't really do much unless we switch to current current's. Really helpful once you start getting a bit used to Dreamweaver is that, watch this, if I click in now and find the P tag, can you see it jumped to the class? Okay. Or if I jumped this p tag here, you can see it jump to the class that I selected, which is first text, which is great. Okay?
It also means that say if I wanna jump along here to the band hero, you see it jump to band Hero. Okay? So it's quite helpful in the undercurrent, um, to kind of click around and it will adjust over this side. But if you're new, it's better to stay at all. Okay? And you can just see them all in a nice big, long list and you can shovel through them and find them.
It's up to you how you wanna work. And so let's click on, I wanna adjust this H one. I've got two ways of doing it. I can click on each one here and go and adjust it. Make member, we've got the show set okay. To show everything that can be done to it or just the bits that have been done to it already and we can adjust them.
Um, another way you can do it is go into your Cs S's our main css. I'm gonna go to full code view and you can find it in here and change it. Okay? You need to know a little bit of syntax. CSS is pretty easy though. Um, the main bits are say that I want a hwi.
You can see the semicolon here. I'm gonna put a return in afterwards. And let's say I want to put some, uh, I don't know, some padding on the left hand side so I could put padding and you see dream move tries to help out. Okay? You can see I can scroll down to left head, enter, there's a semicolon, uh, there's a full colon there. And then we're gonna put in, it doesn't need a space, but I like to put them in.
And let's put in say a pixel ratio. Pixel method of 20 pixels. And then don't forget to put the closing semicolon. Let's hit save. So file, save. Let's do save all.
Okay, jump back to live view. And you'll notice that our H one now has 20 pixels padding on the side there. I'm gonna turn it off by doing it the other way. Click on my H one here. Show set. There's my pixels and I'm gonna bin it.
Okay? And that 20 pixels is gone. Alright? That's how you adjust classes and it's not just for fonts. You could do that for any of the classes that you've done in this course so far.