Dreamweaver - Building Responsive Bootstrap websites

Creating a Dreamweaver email link

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Course contents
SECTION: 1
Overview 7:24
SECTION: 2
Understanding Dreamweaver & Bootstrap 17:03
SECTION: 3
Creating our first page 9:17
SECTION: 4
CSS & Bootstrap 46:16
SECTION: 5
Testing your website 6:16
SECTION: 6
Bootstrap Containers 18:40
SECTION: 7
Text in Dreamweaver 34:31
SECTION: 8
Creating and styling links 10:09
SECTION: 9
How to backup 4:44
SECTION: 10
Navigation bar 21:24
SECTION: 11
Advanced CSS 19:30
SECTION: 12
Mobile website 41:41
SECTION: 13
Uploading your website 17:00
SECTION: 14
New pages & general tidy up. 39:51
SECTION: 15
Embedding is awesome. 13:02
SECTION: 16
Extras 19:50
SECTION: 17
Finished 1:58

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Course info

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.

Downloads & Exercise files

Transcript

Hey, my name is Dan. In this video we're gonna look at doing the last kinda link,  which is an email link. So we've done, uh, a link that goes nowhere,  which is our placeholder link,  which is our pound symbol or our hash. Now, um, we've also linked to an external site, okay? Which we did down here in the link. And that's the one I want to go and change.

I'd like to change this one. Instead of you clicking this  and going off at the moment to the bring your laptop site,  I'd like it to open up your email  browser and send me an email. So to do this, I'm gonna double click it  and highlight our little text here. And you can see there it is there. Now mail to is um,  just a special bit of text you need to pay into here. So it needs to be spelt perfectly, right?

So it needs to be mailed to and it needs to be a colon. Then you put in your email address. Okay, so mine is training at BOL ie. And that would work okay,  but there's another little thing you can do. Let's just test it that way. I'm gonna click enter and  we're gonna go out and test it now.

So I am going to test in a browser  or um, uh, yeah, we'll test in a browser for the moment  you see down the bottom here. Here he is. And if I click it,  it's gonna open up my email browser, okay. And send me an email, which is great. Okay, um, let's jump back into Dreamweaver  and let's add a little little extra bit to it. So I'm gonna double click it, highlight it,  and I'm gonna change it from being, um, just this,  you can add a little bit of extra syntax at the end here.

You can put a question mark and you put it subject  and you put an equals. So you might use this as say in your contact US page,  and it might be our website inquiry. I can never remember how to spell inquiry. Uh, inquiry. Okay. And if I click into now and I go out  and test that in a browser again, click save.

Great. When I click this link on the bottom here, I click,  it's gonna open up my default email program. And you can see it's filled up subject  there in terms of inquiry. Great. So that's how to do, uh, an email link.
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